just–space: King of Wings Hoodoo under the Milky Way : This rock structure is not only surreal – it’s real. The reason it’s not more famous is that it is, perhaps, smaller than one might guess: the capstone rock overhangs …
littlealienproducts: Laika the Space Dog Brooch by kateslittlestore Of course, what’s often left out of children’s books about Space exploration is that Laika was picked up by Aliens who immediately assumed that dogs were the dominant intelligent species on Earth, …
ohstarstuff: As if approaching in an intergalactic spaceship, I love the sense of grandeur captured in this zoomed-in view of NGC 5033. Lying some 40 million light-years away, it features an active and bright galactic nucleus that is thought to …
spaceexp: The surface of Venus, taken in 1981 by the Soviet probes Venera 13 and 14. via reddit This is where women come from, and why they have sulfuric acid for blood.
just–space: Image of the star V838 Monocerotis reveals dramatic changes in the illumination of surrounding dusty cloud structures. The effect, called a light echo, has been unveiling never-before-seen dust patterns ever since the star suddenly brightened for several weeks. js
just–space: The Perseus Cluster, 240 million light-years away, which plays a B, 57 octaves below middle C. Two days ago, it was announced that a mysterious X-ray signal emanating from the galactic cluster could be a sign of a dark …
