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Frontispiece. Saturn & a total eclipse.  The solar system.  1852.

Hubble’s view of Jupiter on July 21, 1994. Credit: NASA/Hubble Space Telescope Comet Team

Astronaut tweets

Charon and Pluto

by: Nevan

[The gaping maw of the universe can do nothing for this man.]

The Last Scene In The Movie by @wh0rism

Consider this: You can see less than 1% of the electromagnetic spectrum and hear less than 1% of the acoustic spectrum. As you read this, you are traveling at 220 km/sec across the galaxy. 90% of the cells in your body carry their own microbial DNA and are not “you.” The atoms in your body are 99.9999999999999999% empty space and none of them are the ones you were born with, but they all originated in the belly of a star. Human beings have 46 chromosomes, 2 less than the common potato. The existence of the rainbow depends on the conical photo-receptors in your eyes; to animals without cones, the rainbow does not exist. So you don’t just look at a rainbow, you create it.

NASA Lunar Science Institute, 2012 (via cylon)

NASA Travel Posters: Visions of the Future

Webb captures Jupiter's faint rings, auroras & hazes

l composite from its NIRCam instrument(x)