Venus, Callisto (Jupiter’s Moon), Neptune

Exoplanet Exploration: “Galaxy of Horrors”

This is very cool and a pretty big deal. Find out why.

I’m so fucking emotional about the 7 planets of Trappist 1. 

Imagine living so close to another habitable planet that it’s like a moon in the night sky. Imagine that for six other planets. Imagine hypothetical aliens in their equivalent of the renneisance, mapping orbits and studying the sky, starting to notice each other through their telescopes. God that’s so cool. Imagine knowing something is there so soon and slowly working towards getting to know them. 

Heck, even just being able to see your neighbour planets that close, even without life, makes the solar system so obviously devastatingly lonely by comparison.

"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"

Star Party - Danr19f

April 16, 1972 – Our lovely Earth, photographed from the Apollo 16 spacecraft as it journeyed toward the Moon. (NASA)

Caldwell 92 by NASA Hubble

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