Anthropomorphized comet, from Un Autre Monde, J.J. Grandville, 1844.
Anthropomorphized comet, from Un Autre Monde, J.J. Grandville,…
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Two Worlds, One Sun
Lunar Eclipse, 4/4/15, New Zealand
Exoplanet Travel Bureau, JPL.
Summer is coming…
Phases of Saturn, engraving, 1851.
A disc of gas and dust surrounds the star HL Tau, 400 light…
A disc of gas and dust surrounds the star HL Tau, 400 light years away in the constellation of Taurus. The lanes visible in the disc are being carved out by planets being formed.
Image taken by the ALMA array in Chile.
What you would see if you were close to a non-rotating black…
What you would see if you were close to a non-rotating black hole. Note the double images of all of the bright stars, caused by light being bent by the black hole’s gravity field.
(via APOD)
A very recent impact crater on Mars, formed between July 2010…
A very recent impact crater on Mars, formed between July 2010 and May 2012 and captured by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter’s HiRISE camera in November of 2013.
The crater is approximately 30m in diameter; the explosion threw ejecta up to 15km from the impact site. Areas in which the red Martian dust has been blown away show as blue in the HiRISE image.
