missprocrastination:

Baby penguin flap!

Planet Earth, 2006, Ice Worlds

fuckyeah-stars:

Gran Paradiso at Night (by a galaxy far, far away…)

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uraniaproject:

Leo and Mars

by Luis Abraham Nuño from Guadalajara, Mexico

Mars, the brightest object in this image, stood before the constellation Leo the Lion in early 2012. The photographer combined several normal images of the scene with one taken through a fog filter. That one diffused the light of Mars and Leo’s brightest stars, thus accentuating them.

(Source: maximilienrobespierre)

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A polar bear stirs. She has been in her den the whole winter. Her emergance marks the beginning of spring.

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stressface:

Organics Probably Formed Easily in Early Solar System.  NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope observed a fledgling solar system like the one depicted in this artist’s concept. New computer simulations at the University of Chicago show that turbulence lofts dust particles above the illuminated portion of the cloud, where they become exposed to high levels of ultraviolet light from nearby stars. UV irradiation was a key component in the production of complex organic molecules in the early solar system. Read more here. (Credit: Courtesy of NASA/JPL-Caltech)

the-star-stuff:

How black holes grow

Evidence indicates they eat binary star partners. By University of Utah, Salt Lake City — Published: April 3, 2012

Artist’s conception of a supermassive black hole (lower left) with its tremendous gravity capturing one star (bluish, center) from a pair of binary stars, while hurling the second star (yellowish, upper right) away at a hypervelocity of more than 1 million mph (1.6 million km/h). The grayish blobs are other stars captured in a cluster near the black hole. They appear distorted because the black hole’s gravity curves spacetime and thus bends the starlight.

Credit: Ben Bromley (University of Utah)

the-star-stuff:

Star Gazing at Crater Lake

Photo and caption by Ben Canales

Here on my first time visit to Crater Lake National Park, I wanted to leave with an image that I could look back on and remember the experience. I was with a friend taking pictures also, and before I took the picture, I called over to him and said, “Hey man, watch this!” With a laugh, I spread my arms out and fell backwards into the snow. A second later, the camera timer clicked the shutter and the long exposure began. After the shutter clicked back closed, I stayed on the ground for a good while staring up mesmerized by all the sparkling stars overhead.