Allegiance-class Star Destroyer - Ansel Hsiao

Jet pack - Faraz Shanyar

Welcome planet Mercury in a 1970 illustration by David A. Hardy for Vision of Tomorrow. (AstroArt)

Weird Anomaly by Edmund Chan  

Mountain Lake - 210408

O_o  When we peer deep into space, we don’t expect to find something staring back at us…

This galactic ghoul, captured by our Hubble Space Telescope, is actually a titanic head-on collision between two galaxies. Each “eye” is the bright core of a galaxy, one of which slammed into another. The outline of the face is a ring of young blue stars. Other clumps of new stars form a nose and mouth.

Although galaxy collisions are common most of them are not head-on smashups like this Arp-Madore system. Get spooked & find out what lies inside this ghostly apparition, here. 

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David A. Hardy

"Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.”

Arthur C. Clarke

Via nowspacetime

animation by ©️Harry Evett

“Intruder Weather” by Lou Drendel. The first squadron to fly the A-6 Intruder in combat was VA-75, in 1965. This is the A-6A of Lt Don Boecker on a typical all-weather mission.

Apollo 11 astronaut Neil Armstrong loads rocks into the lunar module, as painted by Apollo 12 moonwalker Alan Bean in 1985.