Alitheastronomer - Science Rules

The stunning Sombrero galaxy (seriously, there should be a blog that’s just photos of the Sombrero galaxy)

Here is a time lapse of the International Space Station flying over the earth.

Have gravitational waves been found?

Excited rumors began circulating on Twitter this morning that a major experiment designed to hunt for gravitational waves—ripples in the fabric of spacetime first predicted by Albert Einstein—has observed them directly for the very first time. If confirmed, this would be one of the most significant physics discoveries of the last century.

NGC 1398 in Fornax.

Source: https://imgur.com/7dzEl2s

Tilt-shift photo of the space shuttle Endeavor by NASA

Picture I took of the milky way while in New Mexico. Straight up on my D3000 with a tripod

The Gaussian Integral is a beautiful integral for which the area between the e^(-x^2) and the x-axis from negative infinity to positive infinity perfectly equals the square root of pi. Image sources: 1, 2.

Three moons cast shadows on jupiter, taken by the NASA Hubble space telescope.

via reddit

Courtney’s Big Space Book Recommendation Post

Okay, so, hi. It has come to my attention that I have gained a lot - a lot - of followers over the last few weeks due to hype for The Martian. Rad.

So, with that in mind, I’ve decided to put together a bunch of non-fiction space recommendations for y’all. Since an anon asked a few days ago, and I kindof want to do it more justice.

If you are new to me and my blog, you might not be aware that I am a gigantic fucking nerd for human space flight and exploration, and I have a boatload of dumbass blogs about it. So, uh, I’ve read a lot of books. Like, lots.

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