Supermassive black hole compared to our Solar System

Alien Throne

An otherworldly rock spire (also known as a hoodoo) rises out of the badlands forming a perfect foreground to the Milky Way galaxy above.

📸: Marcin Zając

NGC 1672 is a barred spiral galaxy located in the constellation Dorado. It was discovered by the astronomer James Dunlop in November 5, 1826.

😵... brutal. From now on I'm gonna look at a blank spot in space and wish upon the star that will appear in a few million years. 😎

Hao Qin was taking a long-duration sky image when he captured by accident the brightest meteor he had ever seen. Clearly a fireball, the disintegrating space-rock created a trail so bright it turned night into day for about two seconds earlier this month

📸: Hao Qin

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Photo credit: NASA/ISS

According to an index developed in 2015, the Earth is not the most habitable planet discovered in the Universe. Kepler-442b, a rocky exoplanet 1,206 light years from Earth and orbiting its star's habitable zone, has a rating of 0.836. Earth is at 0.829.

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Milky Way during the night, taken in Finland 📸: Taneli Lahtinen

✋The hand-shaped structure, seen in gold in these images, is a nebula of energy & particles blown by a #pulsar left behind after a star exploded. The pulsar, known as PSR B1509-58, is about 19 kilometers (12 miles) in diameter and it's spinning around almost 7 times per second!

Alright, so what you're looking at here is what a new Galaxy would look like when the Andromeda Galaxy and the Milky Way collide. The artist tried to visualise the Andromeda-Milky Way Collision. So this is how the night sky would most probably look like after collusion.

Venus at Night in Infrared from Akatsuki Spacecraft

Image Credit: JAXA, Damia Bouic

SpaceX #Inspiration4 Dargon Capsule, 3 days apart

Saturn and its icy moon Dione as captured by the Cassini spacecraft.

Credit: NASA/JPL/SSI

The Amazon river pictured from the International Space Station. (Credit: NASA).

The core temperature of the sun is approx. 15,000,000 °C. Highest temperature ever achieved on Earth is 5,500,000,000,000 °C.

Jupiter and Io

Cartwheel of Fortune

📸: ESA, NASA

The snow capped mountains of New Zealand from Space

Credits: ESA / NASA – T. Pesquet

NASA’s Curiosity Rover Captures Shining Clouds on Mars