#May2016

Watch: NASA’s time-lapse of Mercury’s transit across the Sun

Space Swoon: Spiral Galaxy NGC 4394 glimpsed by Hubble

SpaceX sending unmanned spacecraft to Mars as early as 2018

red dragon

SpaceX is getting its ass to Mars. Or at least the ass of one of its unmanned spacecrafts.

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Space Swoon: NASA releases new “Earthrise” photo from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter

Stephen Hawking and a Russian Billionaire aim to build Interstellar Ship

lightsail~

What is becoming obvious, to me, is that the stars are not going to be conquered by governments. At least, not at first. They’re going to be conquered by Rich as Fuck Folk with their Eyes To The Sky.

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Space Swoon: Saturn’s moon Enceladus wears its wrinkles with grace

Space Swoon: Collision of Galactic Clusters courtesy of the Frontier Fields

Cosmic violence is always so goddamn beautiful. So goddamn beautiful! Behold the site of collision between four galactic clusters.

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Space Swoon: Hubble finds a stellar fingerprint

Man. Hubble straight up finds all the space-glory, no? Or, at the very least, comma splice, a good amount of it, comma splice, right, question mark.

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Scientists confirm Gravitational Waves. Woah.

GW

So. Like. Albert was right. Gravitational waves are real.

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Space Swoon: Hubble catches merging galaxies in Eridanus

Just a couple of galaxies, way out in Eridanus. Merging. Forming another, larger galaxy. The Galaxy With Two Backs. You know, shitty space-fucking joke for the LCDs in the cheap seats.

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