proserpine-in-phases: roachpatrol: i really, really hope that whenever we actually get to space for real, like past mars, the universe turns out to be exactly as goddamn weird as we have all been expecting all this time. like, space whales past jupiter. palaces of methane ice on pluto. old gods lurking around in the asteroid …
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dajo42: dajo42: humans getting a reputation amongst the galaxy for doing totally absurd and reckless things, like making absolutely ridiculous flight paths through asteroid belts, or hitting warp speed for a five mile trip, or devoting 90% of the power of a ship’s onboard computer to their personal laptop so they can torrent abba’s discography, …
p-taters: this opened my eyes Source: real-tweets
factsinallcaps: THE MAXIMUM DISTANCE BETWEEN EARTH AND MARS IS 401 MILLION KILOMETERS, OR 249,169,848 MILES. THIS IS JUST OVER 22 LIGHT MINUTES. THIS MEANS THAT IF THEY INVENTED A SPACECRAFT CAPABLE OF TRAVELING AT LIGHT SPEED, PASSENGERS ON THAT SHIP COULD WATCH A MAXIMUM OF ONE EPISODE OF THE OFFICE OR COMPARABLE SITCOM, AND A SHORT …
itsfullofstars: itsfullofstars: itsfullofstars: EARTH NOW HAS A QUASI-MOON Astronomers have detected a small asteroid that doesn’t seem to want to go away. Called a quasi-satellite, this new companion circles around the Earth as it orbits the sun—and it’s going to stay that way for the next few hundred years. reblogging because it’s awesome our first …
attractthecrows: You know what I want? Space mythology. Saints of the starship and angels that take their true form as nebulae, great and fiery amorphous beings that speak the will of the Universe Nymphs of asteroid fields and planetary rings, sylphs that fly in the tails of comets and solar wind, the gods of the …
we-are-star-stuff: A picture of every celestial body that robots have landed on and photographed In chronological order:Moon – 1966 June 2ndVenus – 1975 June 8thMars – 1976 July 20thTitan – 2005 January 14thItokawa – 2005 November 20th67P (Churyumov Gerasimenko) – 2014 November 12 Source: we-are-star-stuff
milkdromeduh: fallingpanicdiscoboy: thislifeinfocus: the-future-now: follow @the-future-now HOLY FUCK THE FEELS. THE CHILLS. @studythesunshineflowers I’m going to scream this is incredible. I want to know everything about her breakthrough, now.
science-sexual: the-future-now: Read more about Proxima B follow @the-future-now Yesyesheshesyesyesyes Source: mic.com
badsciencejokes: mistyscience: How our night sky would appear if the Orion Nebula was only 4 light years away, All in favor of pushing the Earth near Orion Nebula raise your hand! Source: xyprogramming