#July2011
Hubble Celebrates Neptune’s First Birthday.
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We’re all celebrating Neptune’s first birthday here on Earth. You know, since we discovered it. We have that habit, us humans. Deciding that when we find something that’s existed that it’s some sort of achievement. Anyways, to celebrate Neptune’s first birf-day, Hubble dropped some pictures to celebrate.
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Today Is The First Anniversary Of Discovering Neptune! In Neptune Years.
Happy birthday! Or something. Today marks the first anniversary of us intrepid human beings discovering Neptune. First anniversary…in Neptune years.
The Triangulum Galaxy Is A Faint Cosmic Swoon!
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The Triangulum Galaxy is the second-closet spiral galaxy to our own, and yet we can barely see the son of a gun. What’s the reasoning behind that? Our boy (or gal!) the Triangulum Galaxy is small, only half the size of our own Milky Way. Due to that, its light is faint, and gets washed out in the night sky.
Space Shuttle Atlantis Takes Off For The Final Time. Sadness Time.
Today the Space Shuttle Atlantis broke through the sky for the final time. Taking with it the hopes and dreams of millions of space-loving dorks like myself. Silently wondering just when the fuck we’re going to get up there again, take exploring the Universe seriously once more.
Watch A Comet Streak Across The Sun’s Surface. A Glorious Burning Death.
NASA’s Solar Dynamic Observatory caught a comet locked into a path across the Sun’s surface on July 5 or 6 of this year. It’s a glorious descent into death, providing us entertainment whilst it surely screamed to itself in pure horror. Right?
Hit the jump to check it out.
Storm Wraps All The Way Around Saturn. Friggin’ Amazing.
Most Water In the Universe May Come From Young Stars’ Erupting Geyers.
Scientists have observed a proto-star shooting water from its poles. This type of righteous action may continue on for thousands of years, and could account for most of the free-floating water in our good old Universe.
Lunar Eclipse Juxtaposed With The Lagoon Nebula Is Orange Ball of Awesome.
Saturn’s Rings Slice The Skull Off Its Moon, Titan.
Betelgeuse Sheds Billions of Kilometers of Space Dust. Colossal.
That red outlined spec in the middle of that picture is Betelgeuse. The roaring, rumbling, amorphous sexily shaded cloud surrounding it is an enormous nebula of dust.
