#May2012

WATCH: Around Saturn In 8 Years With Cassini

This video reminds me of some straight-up  Méliès shit.  Nahum Chazarra is a geology student who has piece together eight years of pictures from Cassini into a jittery batch of gorgeous video.

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WATCH: 2012 Annular Eclipse Video Made From 700 Individual Photos; Space ++

Behold this gorgeous video created by  Cory Poole, who combined 700 individual photos to make that bangin’ movement happen.

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IMAGE: The Andromeda Galaxy Is Our Nearest Neighbor; Damn Sexy.

Ah, the Andromeda Galaxy. It is our nearest galactic buddy in the Local Cluster, and as you can tell from this work of Rock it is quite swanky. Look at it, all a mere 2.5 million light-years away. Taunting us with its splendor.

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IMAGE: Star Formation in the Tarantula Nebula. Gorgeous.

The  Tarantula Nebula ain’t fucking around, no sir. No ma’am. In fact, it’s the most violent star forming region in the whole goddamn local group of galaxies. Thanks to the  Hubble Space Telescope, you can see allllll sorts of crazy shit going on in this picture.

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