Psychedelic Pluto : New Horizons scientists made this false color image of Pluto using a technique called principal component analysis to highlight the many subtle color differences between Plutos distinct regions.
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How do you feel about space movies like Gravity or the Martian etc?
I thought they were great. I watched them both here aboard the International Space Station. Movie night looks like this!
The Belt of Venus is a pink glowing arch seen across the sky when the shadow of the Earth’s translucent atmosphere casts a shadow back upon itself.
Grasping the stars 💫⭐
NASA just released the most detailed photo of space ever taken
The picture of the Andromeda galaxy, the nearest spiral galaxy to our own, is comprised of a mind-boggling 1.5 billion pixels and was snapped from 2.5 million light years away by the powerful Hubble Space Telescope.
See it in all its glory
We used to look up at the sky and wonder at our place in the stars. Now we just look down, and worry about our place in the dirt.
The Milky Way Meteor Shower by jeremyjonkman on Flickr.
Comet Panstarrs – Seen from Queenstown, New Zealand (March 2, 2013)
Credit – Minoru Yoneto
“We used to look up at the sky and wonder at our place in the stars. Now we just look down, and worry about our place in the dirt.”
NGC 660. A rare galaxy type, polar ring galaxies have a substantial population of stars, gas, and dust orbiting in rings nearly perpendicular to the plane of a flat galactic disk. Only about a dozen of such galaxies have been discovered
Source: https://imgur.com/z73B8o3
"Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another." - Plato
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