preservedcucumbers:

benanderson89:

oinonio:

sizzlykins:

This is simply stunning.

Worth downloading chrome just to see this. 

Works in Firefox 17 just fine.

ALEX LOOK

AHHHHHHHH

This is really cool!

n-a-s-a:

Centaurus A – Field 2 (Halo)

Credit: ESO 

A reminder that the ESO takes some great photos.

fuckyeahnebulas:

NGC 6188 & NGC 6164 

spaceplasma:

The Life of Stars

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope captured this stunning true-color picture of the giant galactic nebula NGC 3603 on March 5, 1999 with its Wide Field Planetary Camera 2.

This single view nicely illustrates the entire stellar life cycle of stars, starting with the Bok globules and giant gaseous pillars, followed by circumstellar disks, and progressing to evolved massive stars in the young starburst cluster. The blue supergiant with its ring and bipolar outflow marks the end of the life cycle.

Image Credit: NASA, Wolfgang Brandner (JPL/IPAC), Eva K. Grebel (Univ. Washington), You-Hua Chu (Univ. Illinois Urbana-Champaign)

n-a-s-a:

A Massive Star in NGC 6357 

Credit: NASA, ESA and J. M. Apellániz (IAA, Spain) 

Hello, one of the most gorgeous nebulae I’ve ever seen.

n-a-s-a:

M13: The Great Globular Cluster in Hercules

Image Credit & Copyright: Marco Burali, Tiziano Capecchi, Marco Mancini