Nearby Dust Clouds In The Milky Way

Spirit sends one of those pictures that looks like it could come from the red rock deserts of the American West, but actually shows part of the landscape in Gusev crater, a mere 60 million miles away. Credit: NASA

The dune field at the center of Victoria Crater, seen in a new false-color shot. Credit: NASA

Enceladus, a beautiful moon of Saturn

The orbit of Jupiter protects the Earth from asteroids.

NASA has released new images of Jupiter, taken by the Juno Spacecraft.

Swirls and Colors on Jupiter from Juno [3709x2772]

The moon occluding the sun during an eclipse. The fine threads you can see are part of the solar corona, and actually titanic spools of ultra-hot plasma, curling and bending with the sun’s complex magnetic field.

The stunning Sombrero galaxy

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The Wow! signal. 

A signal sequence that lasted for 72 seconds in 1977 but has never been seen again. The signal appeared to come from a globular cluster in the Sagittarius constellation, but to this day no definite answer for where the signal originated can be given.  

Bright stars of Sagittarius and the center of our Milky Way Galaxy lie just off the wing of a Boeing 747

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FUCKING NASA

I’m fucking pissing myself. You know how all of Jupiter’s moons are named after his lovers and affairs? Yeah. NASA is sending a craft to check up on Jupiter. You know what the craft is called?

JUNO.

Who’s Juno?

JUPITER’S WIFE.

NASA IS SENDING JUPITER’S WIFE TO CHECK ON JUPITER AND HIS AFFAIRS AND LOVERS.

FUCKING NASA