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Newly Released High Resolution Film Scans from Apollo Missions

8,434 photos from the Apollo missions were just uploaded to flickr by NASA! 

11 y/o me: i want a tattoo of a key on the back of my neck to represent all the dark secrets i lock up inside

17 y/o me: i want a tattoo of a ufo on my ass to represent how its out of this world

Space: does cool thing

Clouds: 

韩一杰

me as a child: (crying) please don't let the aliens take me

me now: (crying) why won't the aliens take me

me at any given moment: casually scans sky for ufos

*blows kiss up to the sky (for the aliens)*

Pluto Continues to Amaze

This dwarf planet sure knows how to get a BIG reaction because we’re stunned by the latest images from our New Horizons spacecraft!

Back on July 14, the spacecraft completed it’s historic Pluto flyby, and is now in an intensive downlink phase. During this time, New Horizons will send us some of the best data and images we’ve seen!

These latest images were taken just 15 minutes after New Horizons’ closest approach to Pluto. The spacecraft looked back toward the sun and captured this near-sunset view. Icy mountains, flat plains and the horizon can all be seen in detail.

When we take a closer look, these features truly begin to stand out. Mountains up to 11,000 feet high are met by flat icy plains that extend out to Pluto’s horizon. There, more than a dozen layers of haze in the dwarf planet’s atmosphere can be seen. It’s almost as if we’re flying over the surface with the New Horizons spacecraft.

Speaking of flyover, this new animation of Pluto has been created from images returned from the spacecraft this month. This view shows us what it might be like to take an aerial tour through Pluto’s thin atmosphere and soar above the surface. 

These images and videos are not only stunning, but also provide us with important information about the dwarf planet. So far, scientists can tell that the weather changes from day to day on Pluto. These images, combined with others that have been downloaded, provide evidence for a remarkably Earth-like “hydrological” cycle on Pluto.

For updates on the data and images received by the New Horizons spacecraft, check our blog: https://blogs.nasa.gov/pluto/

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What if aliens visited Earth during the Jurassic Period, found it to be occupied with a bunch of mean, giant lizards and thought “Well, fuck this planet” and never came back?

Just been given the OK to start work on a 2km scale model of the solar system on the world’s longest pleasure pier in Southend-on-Sea.

Here’s a sneak peek at the concept art of the sun I used in my pitch. 

Really chuffed but now got lots to do. All being well, you’ll be able to walk the solar system June-August 2016

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goodnight moon. goodnight Milky Way. goodnight Ursa Major (UMa I dSph). goodnight 24IC 1613 (UGC 662.350[8].

More Art Here

If you couldn’t tell already, NASA is having a great year. From Pluto to food grown in space, even in the face of budget cuts, the nation’s space agency had some stellar highlights. Most mysteriously of all, a spacecraft found two eerily bright lights on a distant dwarf planet.

reblog if youre sick of gender roles and want to be abducted by aliens

Reflex of the Milky Way by Alberto Ghizzi Panizza

August 15th 1977: Wow! signal

On this day in 1977, a unusually strong radio signal was detected by the Big Ear Radio Observatory at Ohio State University, as part of the SETI (search for extraterrestrial intelligence) project. The search for radio signals from alien civilisations began in earnest in the 1960s. In August 1977, a radio signal, originating from the direction of the constellation Sagittarius, was detected as thirty times stronger than the average signal. It appeared to be artificial, as it was only heard on one of the observatory’s fifty channels, whereas natural signals cause static on all frequencies. The anomaly thus fit the criteria for an extraterrestrial radio signal, and so shocked SETI scientist Jerry Ehman that he circled it in red ink and wrote ‘Wow!’ next to it, thus giving the signal its name. The Wow! signal only lasted seventy-two seconds, and was never heard again, despite repeated searches. There have been multiple alternatives proposed to explain the signal, but it has never been adequately understood. In 2012, National Geographic and Arecibo Observatory beamed a response comprised of Twitter and video messages from Earth to the location of the Wow! signal, in the hope of contacting alien life.

alien: *abducts me*

me: omg huge fan thx

The Eagle has landed: July 20, 1969

What really blows my mind is that NASA is able to receive data from a 4.67 billion miles far away spacecraft, while i lose wifi signal once i move to the kitchen

FACT OF THE DAY:  every time a child is born, the world’s population increases, and so does the earth’s mass, and therefore its gravitational force.  theoretically, there is a certain world population that would increase the earth’s gravity to the extent that the moon would collide into the earth

Astronauts are about to eat food grown in space. Technology has looped far enough around to make farming an astonishing achievement yet again.

Cute first date ideas: UFO hunting

*nudges boyfriend at 3 AM* pretty fucked up that we depict the moon as a girl and the sun as a boy. they’re just floating rocks in space. chad? wake up chad. listen. they’re sexless.