Mystic Mountain

This region of the Carina Nebula is known as ‘Mystic Mountain’ - a three-light-year-tall pillar of gas and dust containing jets of gas being emitted by infant stars. source

Space Artists's Concepts for Unseen Planets

Check out npr  to see the process behind designing concept art for newly discovered planets. It is fascinating!

'This artist's impression shows a best guess of what the surface of the planet 

Proxima b might look like, as it orbits the red dwarf star Proxima Centauri, the 

closest star to our solar system. Maybe Mars was the model?'

M. Kornmesser/ESO

Waterball Ping Pong

"Astronaut Scott Kelly has spent more time in space than any other American. He has also played solo ping pong with a ball of water and two hydrophobic paddles." 

Image Credit: NASA 

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You MUST Watch this Video

Earth's history is laid out to scale on a football field. A VERY cool timeline.

Scale of the Universe

'This amazing video illustrates the scale of over 100 items within the observable universe ranging from galaxies to insects, nebulae and stars to molecules and atoms.'

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Does this make you feel small?

A model of how many Earths would fit in the Sun.

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Alejandro Duran's 'Washed Up' Sculptures

Alejandro Duran has created sculptures out of trash to raise awareness of environmental issues relating to Sian Ka'an in Mexico.

He identified trash from 50 different countries (from 6 continents) that had washed up at the Sian Ka'an reserve and began to create his photographs.

He won the 2015 Project Launch Juror's Award for Washed Up.

More photos from Washed Up can be found at http://www.mymodernmet.com/profiles/blogs/trash-based-photo-series-mirrors-environment-issues

Thoughts on Space

From www.ohstarstuff.com

Backlit Saturn

The Cassini spacecraft was sent by NASA and ESA to study Saturn and its moons. Two of Saturn’s moons, Enceladus and Tethys, appear in the bottom right of this image. So far, the spacecraft has found new storm systems on Saturn, active geysers on its moon Enceladus, liquid oceans on its moon Titan, and many other unexpected discoveries. Due to its elliptical orbit, Cassini is occasionally able to catch beautiful images of saturn backlit by our sun, as seen above. 

Credit: NASA/JPL/ESA and astronomicalwonders 

Earthlight

 “Earthlight is the partial illumination of the dark portion of the moon’s surface by light reflected from the Earth and from the Earth’s airglow. It is also known as Earthshine [or] Planet-shine, or the old Moon in the new Moon’s arms.”

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