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IC 2944 // Running Chicken Nebula

Also visible are star clusters: Pearl Cluster (left) & Collinder 249 (inside nebula)

This gigantic lens, built for NASA to record space launches, is up for sale:  http://bokeh.digitalrev.com/article/gigantic-1000mm-nasa-lens-up-for-sale

“Twenty years from now, you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than those you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from safe harbor. Catch the wind in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”

— Mark Twain

Fluorite

Locality: Hesselbach Mine, Hesselbach, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

Photos of space are everywhere online. Their beauty is dazzling, showing a universe awash in color and light. But if you’re a skeptic, you’ve likely wondered whether it all truly looks like that in real life. Michael Benson took data from NASA and ESA missions to make 77 images of everything from Pluto to Europa. In his exhibition Otherworlds: Visions of Our Solar System, Benson tries his best to create images that represent what a moon or planet might actually look like if you could peer at it out a spaceship window. Check out more photos and read about Benson’s project.

The Ringed Planet

Cassini: Saturn, June 12th 2016

W00099641.jpg was taken on 2016-06-12 07:28 (UTC) and received on Earth 2016-06-12 14:57 (UTC). The camera was pointing toward SATURN, and the image was taken using the CL1 and IR1 filters. This image has not been validated or calibrated. A validated/calibrated image will be archived with the NASA Planetary Data System.

Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute

Juno: Jupiter and the Galilean moons from 10.9 million km away, June 21st 2016. The probe will enter orbit around Jupiter on July 4th. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS

You just scrolled over a high-res segment of the Andromeda galaxy. How does NASA get its photos to look so spectacular? The same way as everyone else.