"We Are Made Of Star Stuff. We Are A Way For The Cosmos To Know Itself"

The second week of Lucky Martian Month is here!

This week’s entry: Surface of Mars

http://www.space.com/47-mars-the-red-planet-fourth-planet-from-the-sun.html

http://www.universetoday.com/14885/mars-surface/

http://www.space.com/16895-what-is-mars-made-of.html

Your fave is problematic: Galaxy GN-Z11

this old object is the oldest fucking galaxy that we have discovered thus far

thanks Hubble space telescope

Gn-z11 is 13.4 billion years old… fuck

now you’re like, wtf, the universe is only 13.8 millions years old??? YES. This galaxy was observed by hubble as it was just 400 million years after the Big Bang

at this point in time, a cosmological baby

tricks people into thinking that she is 13.4 billion light years away… think again

Gn-z11 is actually 38 BILLION LIGHT YEARS AWAY

how can that be, you say, in a universe that’s “only” 13.8 billion years old? is the speed of light not the fastest thing in the universe?

well, given that Gn-z11 is so immensely old, and the universe is always expanding, space has expanded to a distance of 38 billion light years during the 13.4 billion years it took the light of Gn-z11 to reach us

keep in mind that when we observe old objects like the universe, we see them as they were then

time travel, so to speak

summary: time traveller, voyaged far, very wise, maybe a forest witch

Caldwell 103 by NASA Hubble

A tourist poster for Petrichor-7, using it's popular nickname 'the rainy day planet'.

LDN 483 is located about 700 light-years away in the constellation of Serpens (The Serpent).

Credit: Warren Keller

to celebrate our seven new exoplanets, i made a pastel nasa logo!

We are nothing but space dust trying to find its way back to the stars.

Love And Space Dust (via story-dj)

The Solar System!

bonus Pluto!

“The south pole of Mars, September 1877.” Star-land : being talks with young people about the wonders of the heavens. 1892.