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IRS 4 — A young star undergoing a violent yet majestic birth.
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LOOK: 'Cosmos'-Crazy NASA Releases Set Of Jaw-Dropping Space Photos
The Cat's Eye Nebula, one of the first planetary nebulae discovered, also has one of the most complex forms known to this kind of nebula. Eleven rings, or shells, of gas make up the Cat's Eye. Each 'ring' is actually the edge of a spherical bubble seen projected onto the sky -- that's why it appears bright along its outer edge.
the human body is made up of many different types of glitters and sparkles
Star Shit
Our entire composition comes from the cosmic dust of exploding stars. You are literally the stuff of stars...Star Stuff! By happy circumstance (serendipity), a particular composite of star stuff became self aware, became you, to explore and help explain that very cosmos itself. Don't disappoint yourself. Make the most of this short time of awareness before you join back again with the greater vastness of space and time.
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A storm on Jupiter. http://criticalshadows.com/videoportals/
the solar system with all its planets and their names
Solar System Facts
#SolarSystem facts : The Solar System consists of the #Sun and the astronomical objects gravitationally bound in orbit around it, all of which formed from the collapse of a giant molecular cloud approximately 4.6 billion years ago. 99.86% of the system’s mass is in the Sun.
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Infinity Imagined
Mass one-thousandth that of the Sun but is two and a half times the mass of all the other planets in our Solar System combined. Jupiter is classified as a gas giant along with Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. Together, these four planets are sometimes referred to as the Jovian or outer planets.
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Forms in space.
The Great Red Spot of Jupiter. Actually a storm that's been raging for over 300 years, it's three times the size of the entire Earth.
an image of the sun and planets with caption that reads, you are here
But that's nothing compared to our sun. Just remember:
From a collection of images, that remind us how insignificant we really are, in the grand scheme of the Universe! But that’s nothing compared to our sun. Just remember: | 26 Pictures Will Make You Re-Evaluate Your Entire Existence - http://www.buzzfeed.com/daves4/the-universe-is-scary
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Perspective in space proportions - just when you thought you knew how vast the universe was...
an image of a colorful star in the sky, with text that reads i truly incredible view of the serenity nebula
Serenity Nebula by `Casperium Hubble Telescope
an image of a blue and red galaxy with stars in the background, taken from space
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This image from Nasa's Spitzer Space Telescope shows a stellar nursery containing thousand of young stars & developing protostars near the sword of the constellation Orion.
a black hole in the sky surrounded by stars
The Daily Galaxy - Great Discoveries Channel - Great Discoveries Channel
In August of 2007, astronomers located a gigantic hole in the universe. This empty space, stretching nearly a billion light-years across, is devoid of any matter such as galaxies, stars, and gas, and neither does it contain the strange and mysterious dark matter, which can be detected but not seen. The large void in the Constellation Eridanus appears to be improbable given current cosmological models. A radical and controversial theory proposes that it is a "universe-in-mass black hole"
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International Space Station silhouetted against the moon
an artist's rendering of a planet in the sky with stars and planets around it
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that's some real cosmic beauty there www.GalacticWays.com