Northern Lights (by Teemu Lautamies)

The night sky. 09/03/15 Watch as the colour of the sky changes due to the rising Moon. This was a 4 hour time lapse recorded last night from 21:00-01:00.

20 Awesome Things for Your Home if You Love Space

Add a bit of space in everyday life by using the interior, which will carry you into the space of distant planets, galaxies, asteroids and constellations. Read also: 22 Simple Ideas to Make Your Home Cozier and 12 Simple Ideas How to Make Your Home Cozier Artnaz.com gathered for you in this post… — http://artnaz.com/space-things/

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Take a look around Mars. Here’s where I’m working right now.

Click the link to see all my latest pictures from the surface of Mars.

Summer Triangles over Japan by Shingo Takei

An Exo-What...?

Simply put, an exoplanet is a planet that orbits another star. That said, just because a planet orbits a star (like Earth) does not mean that it is automatically stable for life. The planet must be within the habitable zone, which is the area around a star in which water has the potential to be liquid…aka not so close that all the water would evaporate, and not too far away where all the water would freeze.

Recently, with the help of our Kepler spacecraft, scientists have discovered the most Earth-like exoplanet ever, Kepler-452b. Pretty cool! This chart shows 12 other exoplanet discoveries that are less than twice the size of Earth, and live in the habitable zone of their host star. Kepler-452b is special because all previous findings have orbited stars that are smaller and cooler than Earth’s.

You may be thinking, “Okay, so what? There’s an Earth-like planet that spins around a similar sized sun.” Well, Kepler-452b orbits its sun at nearly the same distance from its star as Earth does from our sun, which means that conditions on the plant could be similar to those here on Earth!

We can already guess your next question…”When are we going to Kepler-452b?!” Well, this planet is located in the constellation Cygnus which is 1,400 light-years away, so not anytime soon. However, our Kepler spacecraft continues to search for Earth-like exoplanets and gather important scientific information about them.

A mini supernova

The Supernova 1994D

A photo of Jupiter. Took by Cassini with COISS on April 02, 2001 at 15:22:15. Detail page on OPUS database.

New video! Spiral galaxies in a nutshell!

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