3000 Miles from the Moon

3000 miles from the moon, by David Hardey

And baby, what a view…

Pelican Nebula

Pelican Nebula Close-up

I don’t think you’re supposed to see the pelican in this view. I can’t, anyway.

Bean on the Moon

Alan Bean on the lunar surface, Apollo 12

An artist walks on the lunar surface.

Jupiter and Io

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A beautiful photo to end what turned out to be a pretty good week. (With a fairly turbulent start.) This montage of New Horizons images shows Jupiter and its volcanic moon Io, and were taken during the spacecraft’s Jupiter flyby in early 2007. The image of Jupiter is an infrared color composite taken by the [...]

A little sunshine

Orange Sun Scintillating

Because vitamin D is good.

Big Red Nebula

The Color of IC 1795

It’s big, it’s red… yes, it’s a nebula.

More Retro-Future

Galactic Manoeuvre, by Nikolai Nedbailo

Please sir, can I have some more?

Four Months Later

STS-135 Final Launch of Space Shuttle Atlantis, July 8, 2011

Happy launch-iversary @TheSuss @WhoFramedAbbie @therealdjflux @leslieberg & @derlum!

Russia on the Moon

To Other Worlds! - Detgiz, Russia

I liked the old future better.

Ghostly

Ghost of the Cepheus Flare

Scary space is scary.