The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured the sharpest and biggest image ever taken of the Andromeda galaxy — a whopping 69,536 x 22,230 pixels. The enormous image is the biggest Hubble image ever released and shows over 100 million stars and thousands of star clusters embedded in a section of the galaxy’s pancake-shaped disc stretching across over 40,000 light-years.
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(WARNING: May cause existential crisis)
Check out our new video to see every NASA astronaut class. Some patterns emerge.
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.
Having high def pictures of all of them is so satisfying. Bye bye blurry pictures of Pluto 😁
MWC 922, The Red Square Nebula
A Multi-Camera 360° Panoramic Timelapse of the Stars by Vincent Brady [VIDEO]
Flying Across The Universe Part 3 (From Top to Bottom: Fly through the Orion Nebula, Gum 29, and Sharpless 2-106)
(Part 1, Part 2)
Credit: HubbleSite.org
Now at the age of 13, she had already: Attended Space Camp 7 times, Space Academy 3 times and Robotics Academy 1 time. Became the first person to complete all the NASA Space Camps in the world, including Space Camp Turkey and Space Camp Canada. Witness 3 Space Shuttle launches. Attend Sally Ride Camp at MIT, and three Sally Ride Day camps. Speak several foreign languages: Spanish, French, Chinese and some Turkish. She also delivers motivational speeches to other children.
She is determined to be the first person to land on Mars & NASA is already training her.
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These colors are amazing!
Aja Apa-Soura van gogh never saw golden gate van gogh never saw the great wall van gogh never saw christ the redeemer van gogh never saw stonehenge van gogh never saw eiffel van gogh never saw mount fuji van gogh never saw hollywood van gogh never saw taj mahal
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The stunning Sombrero galaxy (seriously, there should be a blog that’s just photos of the Sombrero galaxy)