NASA: Solar eruption as viewed by STEREO COR1 B satellite from the far side of the Sun

View of Saturn from Cassini

NASA Practicing for the Moonwalk

framesandflames:

Enceladus, Raw.

Raw images from the Cassini orbiter show Enceladus, Saturn’s sixth largest moon. Shown are the geysers at the south pole which erupt water ice out into space. Only alterations I made to the raw files was some darkening of overexposed frames.

Image credt: NASA/JPL

fleeckr:

The Emerald Tornado by davebrosha 

ikenbot:

Two Alien Planets Found with Twin Suns Like ‘Star Wars” Tatooine

Astronomers have for the first time discovered two alien planets whirling around a pair of stars: a complete solar system with twin suns just like Luke Skywalker’s fictional home world Tatooine.

Most stars like our sun are not singletons, but rather come in pairs that orbit each other. Scientists had found planets in these binary systems, so-called circumbinary planets with two suns like Tatooine in the “Star Wars” universe.

To find more circumbinary planets, astronomers analyzed data from NASA’s prolific Kepler space telescope, which has detected more than 2,300 potential alien worlds since its March 2009 launch. Kepler had to date detected four systems with circumbinary planets — Kepler-16, 34, 35 and 38.

n-a-s-a:

Centaurus Radio Jets Rising

Credit: Ilana Feain, Tim Cornwell & Ron Ekers (CSIRO/ATNF)

explore-blog:

50 years of space exploration in a single infographic. Too bad the future is looking so grim – something Sagan warned us about 4 decades ago, near the beginning of this timeline.

framesandflames:

Curiosity wiggles its toes for the first time on Mars

reblorg:

Curiosity finds lone Google Maps representative, tracking the Martian surface.

— topher

mcgarrsworld:

Earth, Jupiter and Venus from the skyline of Mars!