This is a new picture taken by the Hubble Telescope that shows us the universe in more detail than we’ve ever seen it. It’s a 14-hour exposure that shows objects at various stages and distances in cosmic history—showing tiny objects that would appear a billion times fainter if looked upon with our weak human eyes.
This stunning fisheye photograph shows the towering wonder of the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope—plus, you know, some galaxy called the Milky Way in the background, too.
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You’re looking at the clearest infrared panorama of the Milky Way ever captured. At 20 gigapixels, it’s going to take you a long time to check the whole thing out.
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Pictures of rockets, meteors and the Milky Way are all amazing. But one with all three makes for an overwhelming image indeed.
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The San Pedro de Atacama region of Northern Chile is one of the prettiest and most desolated places in the planet. It also has the clearest and darkest sky on Earth. Nicholas Buer went there to take one of the most beautiful time lapses I’ve seen:
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The beautiful Milky Way is above us and around us but is also actually in our coffee cups too. What? Just watch Modernist Cuisine pour creamer into coffee in super slow motion, it’s like watching another galaxy form or something. Life should have a slow motion mode so we can appreciate the little things.
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Using data from an all-sky image of M33—a galaxy similar to ours—scientists at the Hubble mission have reconstructed the look of the Milky Way 11 billion years ago.
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Ohio State University astronomers have concluded that there’s a probability of almost 100 percent that a star will go supernova in the Milky Way during the next 50 years. The explosion, they said, will be visible from Earth.
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Today I found out why our galaxy is called the Milky Way and what it’s called in other languages.
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About 1,400 light years from Earth in the constellation of Vela, a new star is being born in a burst of violent glory. Streams of carbon monoxide molecules are spewing from the star’s poles, as dust swirls around the entire event. Thank God somebody got the whole event on camera.
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