theatlantic:

For The First Time Ever, Astronomers Fit A Billion Stars In One Image

imwithkanye:

This Thursday evening, look to the western skies as Jupiter and Venus—the two brightest planets to the unaided eye—stage a close encounter over the Northern Hemisphere. [natgeo]

jtotheizzoe:

Time Lapse Images of Earth at Night Taken From the International Space Station

Not bad pictures for someone traveling 7,706 meters per second, eh?

(Source: britneys-unicorn)

(Source: thesoapboxschtick)

thedailywhat:

Astronomy Photo of the Day: Photographer Anton Jankovoy captured this stellar shot of the Milky Way in the skies over the Annapurna section of the Himalayas — a massif with a peak elevation of over 8,000 meters.

[badastronomy.]

ohscience:

Star trails swirl through candy-colored auroras in a sweet new view of Sugar Lake in British Columbia, Canada, released this week.

Taken in July, the long-exposure picture illustrates how stars seem to rotate around what’s known as the celestial north pole, an imaginary point in the sky closest to the star Polaris—the dot of light at top left—that seems to intersect Earth’s axis of rotation.

kaleidoscopicmind:

Carl Sagan’s influence on Neil Tyson.

ckck:

The moon Rhea and Saturn’s ringplane, July 17th, 2007.