#August2013
M74 is the PERFECT SPIRAL GALAXY. I guess. I’m not really sure.
Hey, if NASA calls this shit the perfect spiral then I’m totally down. I don’t know anything about perfection. Or spirals. Stars are pretty though. I look at them, thinking of you. Your beautiful biceps. I hold myself, thinking of you. Staring at galaxies.
Wait uh whatever. Just hit the jump for the full beauty.
No Comments
THE CONE NEBULA is all ICE CREAM FREE, BUT STILL BEAUTIFUL
Yeah, sometimes churning up the headlines for our space porn titles is difficult. Pretty much all of them can read “Nebula X is fucking beautiful!” and I’d be done with it. Being a chubby-chub, I hear “cone” I think “ice cream.” Welcome to my world.
Hit the jump for more details as well as the entire image.
Watch: DEPARTING EARTH as seen by NASA’S MESSENGER
Swoon! So this is what it will look like when I finally finish building my Rocket Ship. It’s taking a bit longer than expected. Do you know how many Diet Mountain Dew cans it takes to build a functioning hull? I don’t either, which is why I’m probably going to be vaporized. Eh, whatever! If I succeed, I’ll gather a glimmer that looks much like this.
WATCH: The EXPANSION OF THE CRAB NEBULA. Mind-Warp ++
I think we all folks around this here parts know of the Crab Nebula. What we may not know (and I didn’t, but that isn’t saying much) is that the said Crab Nebula is expanding quicker than a motherfucker. Photographer and part-time wizard Adam Black has put together a video that underlines this expansion. It’s pretty pretty.
NASA spots huge hole near SUN’S NORTH POLE. Size of 50 Earths. LOL.
Here is some hump-day perspective. NASA has spotted a rip-roaring coronal hole on the Earth. This son of a bitch is large. We’re talking to the tune of 50 Earth’s placed side by side. Dios mio.
The ESKIMO NEBULA is PRETTY OR SOMETHING.
Yeah, I don’t know. I’m not one to besmirch William Herschel and everything, but I’m not seeing an Eskimo when I look at this image. It’s neat as shit, but an Eskimo? Ehhh. Who knows. Smarter minds than mine, et cetera.
“VULCAN” wins Pluto’s moon-naming poll. Plus! Three-headed dogs.
The Vulcans have won, folks. Led by Spock, they have claimed victory in the poll which was deciding the name of two of Pluto’s moons. Pretty gnarly.
Mars is actually white. Well, this f**ks up our sayings.
Mars is white? This is probably not news to people smarter and more well-versed than myself. To me? It’s all fucking up my sayings. The Red Planet? The Pale Planet? The Superficially Red-y Planet?
This galaxy is a GRAND SPIRAL of cosmic enormity.
Check out this resplendent Grand Spiral galaxy. Perched only a completely inaccessible 40 million light-years away is a galaxy that is somewhat like our own. So the wizards say. I don’t know if they tell the truth. I just smile and look at the pretty pictures.
Astronomers discover “potentially” habitable “Earth-like” planet “near us.” Qualifiers ++
Let’s all double-down on the qualifiers here, people. A mere 12 light-years away lurks a planet that may be habitable. So even though we can never reach it, and we will never truly know, let’s all get excited.
