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Spectacular Aurorae Erupt Over Norway

Over the weekend, the Earth’s magnetic field was struck by a coronal mass ejection (CME). The CME — a vast bubble of solar plasma that had erupted from the sun on Jan. 19 — took longer than expected to travel through interplanetary space, but on Sunday it made contact.

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theworldwelivein:

Kiruna Aurora | Kiruna, Norrbotten, Sweden
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For those who wonder why some of the aurora is blue and some of it is green, the blue is created by nitrogen and the green by oxygen.

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astronautalis:

i could literally watch this till i die.

A time-lapse taken from the front of the International Space Station as it orbits our planet at night.

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latimes:

Saturn’s Great White Spot, which occurs about once every 30 Earth years, is a windy, towering cloud of ammonia and water spewing out super jolts of thunder and lightning. The storm is about 10,000 times stronger than those on Earth.

Photo credit: NASA

thesixpennybook:

Lightning as seen from space, somewhere over Brazil.

ESA Astronaut Paolo Nespoli’s photographs from the International Space Station.

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ckck:

Saturn at a tilt, April 13th, 2007.

I haven’t decided yet if I should have a permanent “Friday Feature” kind of thing, but for now: here’s a look at the starkly beautiful minimalism of Saturn, as photographed by the Cassini orbiter.

roxanneritchi:

brutallyhonestbabes | ultraprison- | erikawithac | starlegs | brijam | therealestsocksinthegame | themorallycorruptfayeresnick:

HOW HAS IT BEEN 2 YEARS SINCE SPACEBAT.

#GROUND CONTROL TO MAJOR SPACEBAT #NEVER FORGET #WE LOVE YOU SPACEBAT

#GROUND CONTROL TO MAJOR SPACEBAT

SPACEBAT WE WILL NEVER FORGET YOU. ALTHOUGH YOUR SONAR DIDN’T WORK IN SPACE, YOUR HEART SPOKE TO US.

We’re trying to be strong for you, Spacebat, but it’s hard.

Godspeed.

OH MY GOD

Two-year anniversary of Spacebat

I still want to get a little bat tattoo on my ankle to commemorate him. He died showing us all how to truly live.

And I think it’s gonna be a long long time

Till touch down brings me round again to find

I’m not the bat they think I am at home

Oh no no no I’m a rocket bat

Rocket bat burning out his fuse up here alone

Mars ain’t the kind of place to raise your pups

In fact it’s cold as hell

And there’s no one there to teach them how to fly

And all this science I don’t understand

Because I’m just a bat, you know?

A rocket bat, a rocket bat

You could have borrowed my jumper, rocket bat. 

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foreheadtittaes:

Look at that, you son of a bitch

“You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it. From out there on the moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, ‘Look at that, you son of a bitch.’”

~ Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell

from Futility Closet

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hariboo:

10-year-old makes us feel inadequate by discovering a supernova

Ten-year-olds are usually too busy playing with their Nintendo DSs to make scientific discoveries. Not Kathryn Gray. Over her Christmas vacation, she discovered a supernova 240 million light-years away.

!!!!!!!!!!!! This made my day. Nay, my week.

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wecansexy:

roxanneritchi:

Oh, my God, I love space, you guys. I don’t know if you knew that, but space is like THE MOST AMAZING OF ALL THE THINGS. Look at this lunar eclipse! LOOK AT THE PROGRESSION OF THE MOON THROUGH THE SKY AS THE PLANET PROCEEDS ALONG ITS ROTATION. This is amazinnnng, oh my Goddddd, I can’t even. SPACE: THE MOST EXCELLENT.

SPACE IS PRETTY MUCH THE BEST THING EVER, I have been obsessed since I was a wee lass.

ME TOO. When I was 3 I would quiz my parents every supper time about how many  moons each planet had.

landscapelifescape:

itsfullofstars:

A Milky Way Shadow at Loch Ard Gorge 
Credit & Copyright: Alex Cherney (Terrastro)

Explanation: Have you ever seen the Milky Way’s glow create shadows? To do so, conditions need to be just right. First and foremost, the sky must be relatively clear of clouds so that the long band of the Milky Way’s central disk can be seen. The surroundings must be very near to completely dark, with no bright artificial lights visible anywhere. Next, the Moon cannot be anywhere above the horizon, or its glow will dominate the landscape. Last, the shadows can best be caught on long camera exposures. In the above image taken in Port Campbell National Park, Victoria, Australia, seven 15-second images of the ground and de-rotated sky were digitally added to bring up the needed light and detail. In the foreground lies Loch Ard Gorge, named after a ship that tragically ran aground in 1878. The two rocks pictured are the remnants of a collapsed arch and are named Tom and Eva after the only two people who survived that Loch Ard ship wreck. A close inspection of the water just before the rocks will show shadows in light thrown by our Milky Way galaxy. Low clouds are visible moving through the serene scene in this movie.

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Saturn was always my most favoritest of all the planets. I used to doodle millions of little SATURNS all over everything I owned.

Anyway, have an awesome video about the hexagon swirling over Saturn’s north pole!

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sunsurfer:

Moonshimmering waterfall and Aurora Borealis, Iceland

By arnar valdimarsson