Keep Your Feet Warm And Spacey At The Same Time With These Awesome Hand-knit Saturn Socks By The Sock

ATTENTION PARENTS: Land of Nod is at it again with an entire new set of space designs for your kids’ bedrooms!  

Cosmos quilt - Twin, Queen

Astronaut throw pillow

Alien throw pillow

Pillow Sham

Cosmos rug

Ceiling Solar System

Oh and did I mention the quit at the top GLOWS IN THE DARK?!?

I’m seriously rethinking everything about my bedroom right now…

- Summer

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This awesome illustration shows a glowing stream of material from a star, being left behind as it was being devoured by a supermassive black hole! The black hole is surrounded by a ring of dust. 

When a star passes a black hole and is close enough to be swallowed, stellar material gets stretched and compressed as it is pulled in. A black hole’s destruction of a star, called “stellar tidal disruption,” releases an enormous amount of energy, brightening the surroundings in an event called a flare. 

In recent years, a few dozen such flares have been discovered, but they are not well understood.

Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

NGC 7497 -via Planets are portals.

Hubble Sees the Wings of a Butterfly: The Twin Jet Nebula

The shimmering colors visible in this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image show off the remarkable complexity of the Twin Jet Nebula. The new image highlights the nebula’s shells and its knots of expanding gas in striking detail. Two iridescent lobes of material stretch outwards from a central star system. Within these lobes two huge jets of gas are streaming from the star system at speeds in excess of one million kilometers (621,400 miles) per hour.

Credit: NASA / ESA & Hubble

also another piece i never posted. a remix of a really great piece by @cuhelski http://cuhelski.tumblr.com/post/138135840478/cosmicorigins

The sky is my escape