How Is Everyone Not Wailing And Shouting In The Streets Everytime A New James Webb Telescope Image Comes

Over 800 terrestrial exoplanets visualized and arranged according to their equilibrium temperature and size.

chart by u/mVargic

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

Saturn, as seen from Iapetus, painted by Chesley Bonestell.

seeing the photos from Webb up against photos from Hubble just makes me… I don’t even know like, wow! Look at that!

listening to the audio from the golden record always makes me cry

if you don’t think pluto is a planet unfollow me right now

"We are made of star stuff. We are a way for the cosmos to know itself"

-Carl Sagan

By Lauchie Macdonald, at Boston Barber and Tattoo

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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