One long, heavy sigh.

itsfullofstars:

Newly Discovered Planet: Hot, Muggy And (Maybe) Liveable

Sort of like Washington, D.C., in the summer:

“It would feel like a steam bath — hot, sticky and beyond uncomfortable.”

That’s how The Associated Press describes the way scientists are describing “HD 85512 b … a newly discovered planet about 35 light-years from Earth in the constellation Vela.”

t’s the second planet outside our solar system that seems to be orbiting in “the habitable zone” around its star, according to the European Southern Observatory, which today (9/12) announced the discovery of HD 85512 b and more than 50 other plants around other stars. In that habitable zone, “water may be present in liquid form if conditions are right,” the ESC adds.

Keep reading.

itsfullofstars:

(via dxo:crookedindifference)

This is why. Look at it…LOOK. Yeah, that’s the effing Earth that looks like a damned moon.

notthatkindagay:

skimmingthesurface:

“That would be the general color of the night sky if the universe wasn’t expanding. You’ve probably never wondered why the night sky is black. “No sun,” you point out. “Duh.” But it’s not that simple. Every single bit of sky is full of stars, all blazing away. The light may take a long time to get here, but it does get here. So, on that basis, the night sky ought to be a carpet of light from all those uncountable stars. But since the universe is expanding, they’re all moving away from us. Since they’re moving, there’s a Doppler effect and the light is shifted to other wavelengths. The further away they are, the more it’s shifted, until all their light shifts right out of the visible range. And that’s why the night sky is dark except for the few stars whose light is still visible.

So the next time you’re admiring the night, look at the dark, too, and remember that you’re watching the universe grow.”

Shakesville: The color of night

sts knows i have boners for this kinda stuff.

Ayaaa.

itsfullofstars:

peaceofmind:

The brilliant fireball meteor captured in this snapshot was a startling visitor to Tuesday evening’s twilight skies over the city of Groningen. In fact, sightings of the meteor, as bright as the Full Moon, were widely reported throughout the Netherlands and Germany at approximately 17:00 UT. Accompanied by sonic booms and rumbling sounds, the meteor was seen to break up into bright fragments, eventually leaving a persistent smoke-like trail. Even though there are bright fireball meteors in planet Earth’s atmosphere every day, sightings of them are relatively rare because they more often occur over oceans and uninhabited areas.

I’ve seen a small fireball, it was while I was at work on Mauna Kea and even though there wasn’t any noise it definitely  broke up into smaller pieces and lasted way longer than most meteorites.

itsfullofstars:

rocketjumper:inky:

VY Canis Majoris is the largest known star in the universe. Its size is between 1,800 and 2,100 solar radii (where 1 solar radius is equal to the current radius of the Sun, or roughly 110 times the radius of Earth).

Click the image to see just how huge this is.

Think of all that energy.

itsfullofstars:

Entropia

Amazing space art by Josef Bartoň

The Final Frontier.

itsfullofstars:

peaceofmind:

Central Milky Way.

via apod.nasa.gov

AWWWWW YEAH

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axinomancy:

The Murchison meteorite contains over 70 extraterrestrial amino acids and other compounds including aromatic hydrocarbons, fullerenes, alcohols, amines, amides, and even nucleobases, the building blocks of DNA

Lets jumpstart life ya’ll.

itsfullofstars:

saintamour:

We’ll be back

We had better get there soon, I don’t want to miss out on cool space missions.

axinomancy:

The Most Incredible Images Ever Taken: The Hubble Deep Field and the Hubble Ultra-Deep Field

“The Hubble Deep Field, taken by WFPC2. Every point of light in this image (except for about 6 which are dim stars) is a galaxy. Thousands upon thousands of new galaxies were discovered. Some were only a few million light years away, others were over ten billion light years away. All told, we learned that there are at least one hundred billion galaxies in our Universe. And we learned it from this single photograph.

Well, nearly a decade after this, they installed a new, better camera, called the Advanced Camera for Surveys. And to one-up the Hubble Deep Field, they picked a different blank patch of sky, went even deeper, and created the Hubble Ultra Deep Field.

There are approximately 10,000 separate galaxies in this tiny little piece of sky, each holding billions of stars.”

And to think that people believe our tiny star system is the only one that houses any sort of life, heh, how crazy.

(via willmccloud)

Dammit space pr0n, o\you will always get reblogged.