This Is Very Cool And A Pretty Big Deal. Find Out Why.

I made a wallpaper for myself be\c I love cryptids.. A lot. But I guess you guys can use it too if you want.

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

Flooded parking lots are beautiful, especially when the speckled asphalt makes the clouds into galaxies.

[78/100] Juno @nasa

NGC 7497 -via Planets are portals.

who was the fool who was tasked with naming the galaxy and the only adjective they could think of was ‘mmmmmmmmmmmmilky…’

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