Starlost - Space Fucks

Comet Lovejoy’s long needle-like tail by Fritz Helmut Hemmerich

Close-Up of the Helix Nebula

This cropped version of the Helix Nebula mosaic shows cometary-filaments embedded along a portion of the inner rim of the nebula’s red and blue gas ring. At a distance of 650 light-years, the Helix is one of the nearest planetary nebulae to Earth.

Credit: NASA, NOAO, ESA, the Hubble Helix Nebula Team, M. Meixner (STScI), and T.A. Rector (NRAO).

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A cosmic kaleidoscope by Hubble Space Telescope / ESA

Laika's still up there. not her body, sure, but her soul is. i saw it through my telescope one night when i was looking for aliens. she was sniffing for table scraps under saturn's ring. she chases comets and bites down on satellites. i saw her napping by neptune, she was kicking her feet. passing through the oort cloud is like the stroke of a hand on her fur. eyes like marbles and four little paws like flames. she bobs through jupiter's moons like cold moscow streets. up there the stars are a great big field. and look, she's running so fast. god damn, look at her go.

The 3 best pictures of space objects Ive taken with my telescope [4974 x 3308]

Source: http://i.imgur.com/x4ZbSyA.jpg

A Pair of Staggering Infographics Organizes 1,600 Planets Beyond Our Solar System by Color

"Hello Earth!" by Lee Rishaw

I got really emotional inspired by the The Golden Record, and decided to make this quick and messy comic about it.

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The first compact solar system discovered was the Kepler-11 system. It’s a compact solar system, which means it has planets very close to its sun. There are five planets by its sun, closer to its Sun than Mercury is to ours.