nevver 5 years ago
humanoidhistory 5 years ago
humanoidhistory:
“ May 14, 2009 – A close-up view of astronaut John Grunsfeld performing spacewalk to do some maintenance on the Hubble Space Telescope, photographed by Andrew Feustel, who can be seen in Grunsfeld’s visor.
(NASA)
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humanoidhistory:

May 14, 2009 – A close-up view of astronaut John Grunsfeld performing spacewalk to do some maintenance on the Hubble Space Telescope, photographed by Andrew Feustel, who can be seen in Grunsfeld’s visor. 

(NASA)

micdotcom 5 years ago

micdotcom:

The Hubble Space telescope just sent back a new photo of the Twin Jet Nebula. Here’s what it looked like in 1997:

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And now …

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Whoa. But wait, we also got an updated image of the merging galaxies NGC 6240. What it looked like in 2008:

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And today:

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Science, you’re the best. Oh, and the explanation behind those merging galaxies and their black holes is wild.

coolthingsswd 5 years ago

coolthingsswd:

Ode to Apollo 11 and the joy of discovery

matialonsorphoto 5 years ago
trefoiled 5 years ago
trefoiled:
“ Jupiter’s Great Red Spot, National Geographic Picture Atlas of Our Universe, Roy A. Gallant, 1980. via
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trefoiled:

Jupiter’s Great Red Spot, National Geographic Picture Atlas of Our Universe, Roy A. Gallant, 1980. via

nevver 5 years ago

nevver:

Broad Brushstrokes (in Space), Michael Kagen

audible-smiles 5 years ago

audible-smiles:

the solar system is probably the most purely, simply fun exploratory experience humans will ever get to have, because there’s nobody there! there’s no colonialism and we don’t have to worry about aliens yet, so its just. fun!

we just land a robot on an empty planet and make it do wheelies and every few days we find like a cool rock and scientists yell about it on twitter

calumgirlie-deactivated20160725 5 years ago
micdotcom 6 years ago

nicestcars:

micdotcom:

If you couldn’t tell already, NASA is having a great year. From Pluto to food grown in space, even in the face of budget cuts, the nation’s space agency had some stellar highlights. Most mysteriously of all, a spacecraft found two eerily bright lights on a distant dwarf planet.

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