galaxyshmalaxy:

Rosette Nebula, (by mtibor64)

alanfriedman:

Nephelococcygia

It’s the long way of describing our love for seeing likenesses in the shapes of clouds. If you are bitten by this bug and find yourself with a solar telescope, watch out. The fantastic plumes of hydrogen plasma we call solar prominences seen at the edge of sun will tempt you to identify them in earthly forms. I once set out to classify a bunch and this was the result. A Yeti, a bonsai, Don Quixote, the angel that fell to earth… there’s even one that looks like me or did, when I wore a goatee. Click on the picture to see the big version from my website. Each image there is a hot link to a little bit of averted imagination. Enjoy!

scipsy:

The Antennae Galaxies (also known as NGC 4038 and 4039) are a pair of distorted colliding spiral galaxies about 70 million light-years away, in the constellation of Corvus (The Crow) (via ESO fan page)

(Source: galaxyshmalaxy)

scipsy:

Abell 644 (via Chandra)

galaxyshmalaxy:

Milky Way

(Source: skyandtelescope.com)

bloodredorion:

New research suggests that massive rocky planets may be the result of the failed creation of Jupiter-sized gas giants.

Most astronomers currently believe planets are created by a method known as core accretion. Giant disks of gas circle newborn stars. Grains in these…

galaxyshmalaxy:

Lagoon Nebula RGB (my first RGB) (by Peter Hegarty)

floresenmialma:

world-shaker:

Phases of the Moon

Adí mismo es como las como xD

(via puerta3-deactivated20120722)

scipsy:

Even wonder what you might weigh on Saturn or on a neutron star? Try this and you can know what your weight might be on other worlds

14-billion-years-later:

A newly discovered alien planet that formed from a dead star is a real diamond in the rough.

The super-high pressure of the planet, which orbits a rapidly pulsing neutron star, has likely caused the carbon within it to crystallize into an actual diamond, a new study suggests.

The composition of the planet, which is about five times the size of Earth, is not its only outstanding feature.

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