Full Buck Super Moon L Rami Ammoun

IC 2087 Taurus Molecular Cloud © Nik Szymanek

Happy Moon Landing Day 🌕🐇

Voyager 2: Rings of Neptune (August 1989)

Mars painting by Herb Herrick for an article about terraforming in World Book Science Annual 1975. Consultant: Carl Sagan. The first painting (top) is followed by two clear plastic overlays of the skies and rain and finally plant life.

I'm having too much fun taking Skye sky photos on a cloudless winter's night. From May until the end of July it doesn't get dark enough for stars. (Pixel 5 in Night Mode / Astrophotography AI on.)

[...] while compartmentalization and replication are important, they are aspects of what life is and does, but they do not address the why of life. The why of life is metabolism. By completing the circuit of life, biology harnesses energy from its environment. Technically speaking, this means that biology actually helps the universe cool faster; it increases the entropy of the universe. This is why the universe needs life.

Alien Oceans by Kevin Peter Hand

Io's Close-Up by NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center

Into the Cosmic Heart, IC 1850 © Aleix Roig

Zoozve, my beloved

NGC 1569, Star Sparks