Orion XT8

Milky Way at Lake Ninan - Wongan Hills, Western Australia

Nikon d5500 - 35mm - ISO 4000 - f/2.2 - 33 x 30 seconds iOptron SkyTracker

Universe Pins

The entire solar system in the palm of your hand (on your jacket, bag, banner, wherever)!!

Hey everyone!!  Sorry for my silence here but I’ve been working hard on creating proper merch for the new con season!  I’m starting off this year with a bang (A BIG BANG haw haw space jokes!!)  by kickstarting a set of the whole solar system as pins!!

These are the designs up at the moment!!  There are also stretch goals with other awesome Space Merch to be had!!

Any reblogs, sharing, showing your friends, pledging is always sUPER appreciated.  Thank you so much loves!  Have a spectacular day!!

Cone Nebula

a gifset of planet facts because i rlly love space!!

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The Storm That Missed Earth – “A typical CME [coronal mass ejection] travels at about 1 million mph [1,609,344 kilometers per hour]. This model of the [23 July 2012] event shows the CME (red) speeding in the direction of STEREO A at 6.7 million mph [10,782,604.8 kilometers per hour].” [1024 x 576] by trot-trot

★☆★ SPACE ★☆★

Hyades Star Cluster

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Happy 90th birthday to Buzz Aldrin.

A Dusty Fingerprint in Space

A new image from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope reveals a remarkable cosmic sight: at least 17 concentric dust rings emanating from a pair of stars. Just 5,300 light-years from Earth, the star duo are collectively known as Wolf-Rayet 140. Each ring was created when the two stars came close together and their stellar winds (streams of gas they blow into space) collided so forcefully that some of the gas was compressed into dust. The stars' orbits bring them together about once every eight years, and forms a half-shell of dust that looks like a ring from our perspective. Like a cosmic fingerprint, the 17 rings reveal more than a century of stellar interactions—and the "fingerprint" belonging to Wolf-Rayet 140 may be equally unique. Other Wolf-Rayet stars produce dust, but no other pair are known to produce rings quite like Wolf-Rayet 140.

Learn more about Wolf-Rayet 140.

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