The Crab Pulsar (PSR B0531+21) Is A Relatively Young Neutron Star. The Star Is The Central Star In The

Orion Launch Abort System Attitude Control Motor Hot-Fire Test via NASA https://ift.tt/2Wk4fYE

And that’s when Earth made dolphins. LOL.

This is the moment of today’s Soyuz rocket failure. It happened as the 4 side boosters were being jettisoned. Very glad the crew is safely back on the ground. (at Baikonur Cosmodrome) https://www.instagram.com/p/BozMRz0Hm2Y/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=168pfhpjc77cm

Thought For The Day

Never think you’re nothing. Never cry at night over not being pretty enough. Never tell yourself you’ll never be good enough. Because to someone, you’re everything. To someone, you’re gorgeous. To someone, you are the world.

Follow this tumblr for more quotes to motivate you (via thelovewhisperer)

This mosaic image from the NASA/ESA/ASI Cassini-Huygens spacecraft is centered at 9 degrees north latitude, 254 degrees west longitude. The image was acquired at a distance of about 57,800 km from Rhea.

Image credit: NASA/JPL

NGC 3576, Statue of Liberty Nebula

Venus and the Triply Ultraviolet Sun : An unusual type of solar eclipse occurred in 2012. Usually it is the Earth’s Moon that eclipses the Sun. That year, most unusually, the planet Venus took a turn. Like a solar eclipse by the Moon, the phase of Venus became a continually thinner crescent as Venus became increasingly better aligned with the Sun. Eventually the alignment became perfect and the phase of Venus dropped to zero. The dark spot of Venus crossed our parent star. The situation could technically be labeled a Venusian annular eclipse with an extraordinarily large ring of fire. Pictured here during the occultation, the Sun was imaged in three colors of ultraviolet light by the Earth-orbiting Solar Dynamics Observatory, with the dark region toward the right corresponding to a coronal hole. Hours later, as Venus continued in its orbit, a slight crescent phase appeared again. The next Venusian transit across the Sun will occur in 2117. via NASA

October is the time of year for the Orionids Meteor Shower! Pictured here, over two dozen meteors were caught in successively added exposures last October in Inner Mongolia. The featured image shows multiple meteor streaks that can all be connected to a single small region on the sky called the radiant, here visible just above and to the left of the belt of Orion. The Orionids meteors started as sand sized bits expelled from Comet Halley during one of its trips to the inner Solar System. Comet Halley is actually responsible for two known meteor showers, the other known as the Eta Aquarids and visible every May. 

Next month, the Leonids Meteor Shower from Comet Tempel-Tuttle should also result in some bright meteor streaks.

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