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Centaurus A. Check that motherfucker out. There’s some serious shit going on in this picture. Most notably a hungry-ass black hole eating the remnants of two collided galaxies. Rock.

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Check out Vesta. Big son of a bitch asteroid. It’s got one of the most impressive cliffs in this little quaint solar system, and its majesty was recently captured by the robotic Dawn spacecraft.

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How fucking awesome is this? NASA launched their new Mars rover today, Curiosity. Even more amazing? I’ve never realized that it’s a 345-million mile journey. Just wrap your brainstem around the sort of distances we can cover. Tremendous.

Hit the jump to see the launch, and for some deets.

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Above. That’s Mars. MARS. Gives me tit-tightening goosebumps just contemplating that fact. The entire five-year mission of the Mars rover Spirit has been condensed into a 3+ minute video. The rover ain’t doing much, but it’s working with terrain on Mars. Fucking Mars. With an alien horizon in the background. Hnng!

Hit the jump to check it out.

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I’m going to be upfront with you. My caffeine-soaked, ADHD-riddled brain can’t take the time to truly comprehend the mechanics of this post. Especially at the time of day that I’m writing this. All I know is that the headline is fucking awesome, and gives me a geek boner. Light. From nothing.

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This is some high-resolution cosmic porn right hurr.  The Pic du Midi observatory in France has compiled a glorious video of Jupiter in all Its Mighty Glory.

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This enormous cosmic view features two of the best known star clusters that we can see from our Small Water Planet. Pleiades and Hydaes, roll call!

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The Sun hasn’t been fucking around this year. Massive solar activity, sunspots. So we haven’t been messing around in our coverage of it. Check out this big beautiful picture of our Solar Engine.

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Check out this time lapse taken aboard the ISS that everyone and their momma is chatting about today. Phenomenal shit. The glory of the cosmos juxtaposed with evidence of mankind’s technological movement. We ain’t done much, but we ain’t done nothin‘.

Or something.

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Check out M83. What a gorgeous picture. Generally I’m entertained by all the pictures of nebula and galaxies I post, but this roaring orange blaze is more stunning than the average one to me.

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