Space photos, drawings, artists conceptions and all things space related

[DemonGeminiX]

Very cool.

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https://www.flickr.com/photos/projec...57658601662068

Some nice candids of the astronauts in there too.

[Teh One Who Knocks]

New photos of Saturn's moon Enceladus as taken from Cassini

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Appears to be made of milk

[Hugh_Janus]

Appears to be made of milk

it's water ice with a water mantle-y bit

fucking sky at night rocks

[Teh One Who Knocks]

CLICKY

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[HyperV12]

Patricia?

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Patricia?

Yes

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[Teh One Who Knocks]

This infrared image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows the centre of the Milky Way, 27 000 light-years away from Earth. Using the infrared capabilities of Hubble, astronomers were able to peer through the dust which normally obscures the view of this interesting region. At the centre of this nuclear star cluster — and also in the centre of this image — the Milky Way’s supermassive black hole is located.
Credit: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA) Acknowledgment: NASA, ESA, T. Do and A. Ghez (UCLA), and V. Bajaj (STScI)

[DemonGeminiX]

I have a new desktop background. Thanks, Lance.

[Teh One Who Knocks]

Simulated View from Europa's Surface (Artist's Concept)

[PorkChopSandwiches]

This was taken back in 2006 as the spacecraft drifted into the shadow of Saturn. The sun is hidden directly behind the planet. Earth also appears as a small dot near the upper left side of the brightest rings.

Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there--on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.