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me:  the stars are beautiful tonight

you: yeah

me:  you know what else is beautiful

you: (blushing) what?

me:  the moon.  the planets.  the rest of the galaxy.  i fucking love space

Neil was comedy last night

HELIX NEBULA While this may look like a green version of the eye of Sauron, this Spitzer Space Telescope image shows infrared radiation from the Helix Nebula (NGC 7293). The nebula is 700 light years away, within the constellation Aquarius. The dust and gas gathered around the central white dwarf is two light years in diameter.  The nebula is considered an excellent example of a planetary nebula in the final stages in the evolution of a sun-like star. The bright infrared glow surrounding the central star is most likely the result of a dust debris disk, which could have been generated by collisions with objects similar to our solar system’s Kuiper Belt or cometary Oort cloud, as the nebular material would have been ejected from the star thousands of years ago. Our own Sun will similarly decay in 5 billion years time. -TEL http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_875.html Image credit: NASA, JPL-Caltech, Kate Su (Steward Obs, U. Arizona) et al.

Watch the Mars Opportunity rover run an 11-year marathon in this time-lapse.

The Old Factory by Thrasivoulos Panou on 500px.com

passage of time (remix) Tanya Mar

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IC 1805: Heart Nebula in Color [source]

I have you covered for Valentine’s Day!

Both space-related, and cute-related

Looks like someone wants to go back to space...

Dogs and cars!

Not space-related, but definitely cute-related

gamma—crucis:

The Tarantula Nebula, also known as NGC 2070, was thought to be a star until in 1751 when Nicolas Louis de Lacaille recognized its nebular nature. As an extremely luminous non-stellar object, it is so bright that if it were as close as the Orion Nebula, it would cast shadows on Earth. 

Image Credit: NASA, ESO, ESA

John G. Fantucchio - “USA on Deimos”

The Hubble recaptured The Pillars of Creation with a better lens. Let’s put it in perspective… 

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