Starlost - Space Fucks

In relation to the Earth, I’m not that far away from where I was born. But in relation to the Universe, I’m millions if not billions of miles away from where I was actually born, and I’ll likely never return there.

NGC 2419, Wanderer

M2 9: Wings of a Butterfly Nebula : Are stars better appreciated for their art after they die? Actually, stars usually create their most artistic displays as they die. In the case of low-mass stars like our Sun and M2-9 pictured above, the stars transform themselves from normal stars to white dwarfs by casting off their outer gaseous envelopes. The expended gas frequently forms an impressive display called a planetary nebula that fades gradually over thousands of years. M2-9, a butterfly planetary nebula 2100 light-years away shown in representative colors, has wings that tell a strange but incomplete tale. In the center, two stars orbit inside a gaseous disk 10 times the orbit of Pluto. The expelled envelope of the dying star breaks out from the disk creating the bipolar appearance. Much remains unknown about the physical processes that cause planetary nebulae. via NASA

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It was a huge disappointment as a child to fall in love with the stars and then find out how much math it requires to get anywhere near them. 

what if...................... i was chilling............ and then a tumblr infographic said only 8% of all the planets that will ever exist have already been formed and earth is one of them there are 92% more planets to exist we're not alone we're just first we're not alone we're just early if the entire universe was 100 planets we would be in the first eight and the other ninety-two don't exist yet new planets will be born as ours becomes a faded memory to the vast expanse of the universe we're not alone we're just early our entire existence is a smear on the windscreen of the cosmos the universe is unimaginably big but unimaginably small compared to what it will be we're not alone we won't be alone we're just early

The lightest (i.e., least massive) known star, OTS 44 [3000 x 2400]

This first image from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is the deepest and sharpest infrared image of the distant universe to date. Known as Webb’s First Deep Field, this image of galaxy cluster SMACS 0723 is overflowing with detail. Thousands of galaxies – including the faintest objects ever observed in the infrared – have appeared in Webb’s view for the first time. This slice of the vast universe covers a patch of sky approximately the size of a grain of sand held at arm’s length by someone on the ground.

Behemoth Black Hole Found in an Unlikely Place by NASA Goddard Photo and Video

Jovian ‘Twilight Zone’

This image captures the swirling cloud formations around the south pole of Jupiter, looking up toward the equatorial region. NASA’s Juno spacecraft took the color-enhanced image during its eleventh close flyby of the gas giant planet on Feb. 7 at 7:11 a.m. PST (10:11 a.m. EST). At the time, the spacecraft was 74,896 miles (120,533 kilometers) from the tops of Jupiter’s clouds at 84.9 degrees south latitude. To make features more visible in Jupiter’s terminator — the region where day meets night — the Juno team adjusted JunoCam so that it would perform like a portrait photographer taking multiple photos at different exposures, hoping to capture one image with the intended light balance. For JunoCam to collect enough light to reveal features in Jupiter’s dark twilight zone, the much brighter illuminated day-side of Jupiter becomes overexposed with the higher exposure.  Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Gerald Eichstädt