fuckyeahnebulas:

Witch Head Nebula 

ecocides:

Milky Way over Senggigi Beach - Lombok Island, Indonesia | image by Winston Setiawan

itsfullofstars:

Holy crap, these true-color photographs of Saturn are gorgeous

propagandery:

An international team of scientists working at European HARPS have announced the discovery of a large rocky planet residing within the stellar habitable zone of the red dwarf star Gliese 163. That increases the number of known potentially habitable planets to six — the majority of which have been discovered in the past year.

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ecocides:

A team of astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) has spotted sugar molecules in the gas surrounding a young Sun-like star. This is the first time sugar been found in space around such a star, and the discovery shows that the building blocks of life are in the right place, at the right time, to be included in planets forming around the star. | image: ESO

hajimecrea:

Spiral Cubooctahedron (Tomoko Fuse) by Dahlia_K on Flickr.

emptyspaceblog:

under the arch

opticoverload:

Hawaii volcano lava flow

treeporn:

woodendreams:Molly Wassenaar)