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“Y tal vez debí abrazarte más fuerte la última vez que te tuve cerca.”

- Pensamientos (via el-chico-depresivo-y-suicida)

Every now and then we get good news (and sometimes I don’t post about space). 

Today the giant panda came off of the endangered species list. While this is fantastic news, it’s worth knowing that they’re still considered vulnerable but also that there are many other animals that still need help.

So here’s to the conservationists who’ve worked for decades to ensure the survival of the giant panda - and to the pandas themselves.

(Image credit: Joshua Doubek)

Infrared, X-ray & Optical Images of Centaurus A

Centaurus A is the fifth brightest galaxy in the sky – making it an ideal target for amateur astronomers – and is famous for the dust lane across its middle and a giant jet blasting away from the supermassive black hole at its center.  Cen A is an active galaxy about 12 million light years from Earth.

Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO; Optical: Rolf Olsen; Infrared: NASA/JPL-Caltech

Artist’s logarithmic scale conception of the observable universe with the Solar System at the center, inner and outer planets, Kuiper belt, Oort cloud, Alpha Centauri, Perseus Arm, Milky Way galaxy, Andromeda galaxy, nearby galaxies, Cosmic Web, Cosmic microwave radiation and Big Bang’s invisible plasma on the edge. [Huge Version]