The Luminous Heart Of The Galaxy M61.

Bad: aliens that insist upon referring to human women as “feeeeemales”.

Good: aliens that insist upon dividing humans into binary categories, but the binary in question is based on something we’d regard as trivial and bizarre.

"Voyager 1 entered interstellar space on Aug. 1, 2012, and continues to collect data, now nearly 14 billion miles away from Earth." -https://spacecenter.org/

X-Files, "Little Green Men" // NASA image of Voyager probe // Jimmy Carter's Golden Record greeting // Carl Sagan // Star Trek TNG, "Pen Pals" // NASA image "Pale Blue Dot" // CJ Cherryh, "Pots"

Astronaut tweets

The qrcodes do take to each planets' nasa site. I learned a lot of each planet while doing this work.

My favorite is Saturn! Which ones yer favorite?

Something to think about that we don't usually think about

You actually can’t see light. You can only see what light hits.

Happy Valentines day:   source 

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

Jupiter’s Bands of Clouds

This enhanced-color image of Jupiter’s bands of light and dark clouds was created by citizen scientists Gerald Eichstädt and Seán Doran using data from the JunoCam imager on NASA’s Juno spacecraft.

Three of the white oval storms known as the “String of Pearls” are visible near the top of the image. Each of the alternating light and dark atmospheric bands in this image is wider than Earth, and each rages around Jupiter at hundreds of miles (kilometers) per hour. The lighter areas are regions where gas is rising, and the darker bands are regions where gas is sinking.

Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Gerald Eichstädt /Seán Doran

Planet Earth, April 16, 1972, as seen from the Apollo 16 spacecraft as it journeyed toward the Moon. (NASA)