Great Short By Pixar 😁👍

Legend of Korra! For a friend of mine. <3

Space is so awesome :)

Gliese 832c: The closest potentially habitable exoplanet

This planet is only 16 light years away — could it harbor life? Recently discovered exoplanet Gliese 832c has been found in a close orbit around a star that is less bright than our Sun. An interesting coincidence, however, is that Gliese 832c receives just about the same average flux from its parent star as does the Earth. Since the planet was discovered only by a slight wobble in its parent star’s motion, the above illustration is just an artistic guess of the planet’s appearance — much remains unknown about Gliese 832c’s true mass, size, and atmosphere. If Gliese 832c has an atmosphere like Earth, it may be a super-Earth undergoing strong seasons but capable of supporting life. Alternatively, if Gliese 832c has a thick atmosphere like Venus, it may be a super-Venus and so unlikely to support life as we know it. The close 16-light year distance makes the Gliese 832 planetary system currently the nearest to Earth that could potentially support life. The proximity of the Gliese 832 system therefore lends itself to more detailed future examination and, in the most spectacularly optimistic scenario, actual communication — were intelligent life found there.

Image credit & copyright: The Planetary Habitability Laboratory @ UPR Arecibo; Discovery: Robert A. Wittenmyer (UNSW Australia) et al.

The stunning Sombrero galaxy

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i made this to help out someone who was having trouble with palettes and picking colors! maybe it’ll help you guys out too (I hope so anyway)

Now that Europe’s made history, we stop and take a moment to celebrate this amazing day.

… but we must look forward. What brought us to this point? Why land on a comet in the first place?

This mission is going to give us answers to some pretty ancient and profound questions.

It will tell us whether or not Earth’s water actually came from comets.

Inside the comet, you’ll find the material remains of our early solar system: a cosmic fossil frozen in dust and ice. We will find out more in how planets form and become habitable. These secrets have been undisturbed for billions of years… let’s disturb them.

ESA’s Rosetta Mission Makes Historic Landing On Comet In a journey more than a decade in the making, the European Space Agency has confirmed its Rosetta mission successfully landed its Philae probe on the surface of a comet on Wednesday. The ESA’s Philae probe made touchdown on comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko at 11:03 a.m. EST on Wednesday, making history as the first spacecraft to achieve a soft-landing on the surface of a comet. While NASA’s Deep Impact, released a probe to collide with a comet as a part of its scientific observations in 2005, no mission has accomplished a controlled soft-landing on a comet’s nucleus before. “Our ambitious Rosetta mission has secured a place in the history books: not only is it the first to rendezvous with and orbit a comet, but it is now also the first to deliver a lander to a comet’s surface,” ESA’s Director General Jean-Jacques Dordain said. [WATCH LIVE: Webcasts Of The European Space Agency’s Philae Probe Landing On A Comet] The ESA launched its Rosetta spacecraft on March 2, 2004 on an ambitious mission to orbit and then deploy a probe to the surface of a comet, in feats never before accomplished by a spacecraft. Rosetta became the first spacecraft to rendezvous with and orbit a comet on August 6, 2014. The goal of the Rosetta mission is to provide the most detailed observations of a comet to date in order to better understand the composition of a comet’s nucleus and the changes it undergoes as it passes by the sun. Comets, icy remnants left over from the dawn of our solar system, could provide clues as to the conditions that existed 4.6 billion years ago. [WATCH: Game Of Thrones’ Aidan Gillen Appears In Sci-Fi Short Film About ESA’s Rosetta Mission] Read more: http://www.penny4nasa.org/2014/11/12/european-rosetta-mission-makes-historic-comet-landing/

Norwegian boy uses World of Warcraft skills to save sister and himself from an attacking moose.

((Originally posted on Youmacon Unofficial Facebook Group, I was given permission to post this information here by Bethany Woodward!))

The following post is in relation to GM’s Tweet.

"Youmacon should be releasing a statement about the policy tomorrow on October 17th.

What we know so far: GM...

Oh no she can't see. Her lil' beanie is too big 😄

Entry #372: aaaaaaa

Sapph! You’re too small for that big ol hat. Silly pony.