Magnetic Monster NGC 1275

“Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another.”

— Carl Sagan, Cosmos

cuzz of the hate I got ^_^

Path of the 2012 Venus Transit

“The sun is such a lonely star. Whenever he comes out to see his friends, they all disappear.”

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt, The Tiny Book of Tiny Stories: Volume 1

Light And Shadow In The Carina Nebula (NGC 3372)

“A bit of mould is a pleiad of flowers; a nebula is an ant-hill of stars.”

— Victor Hugo

A Rocking Mercury Showing Of Rock Compositions

“The Heavenly Spheres make music for us,
The Holy Twelve dance with us,
All things join in the dance!
Ye who dance not, know not what we are knowing.”

— Gustav Holst

Meteorite - Russia, Sverdlovsk region, 2013 Feb 15, 9:25

“I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.”

— Jack London

Source: Georges Jacotey and Anthony Antonellis @FB

A Sun-Filled Night

“Across the sea of space, the stars are other suns.”

— Carl Sagan

Galaxy M106

“…after all, what is a planet but an island in space?”

— John Wyndham, The Midwich Cuckoos

Spiraling Galaxy

“At every level in our inventory, nothing seems special about our Earth, our Sun, our Galaxy, our Local Group. Evidently, mediocrity reigns throughout. Such is our niche in the Universe.”

— Eric Chaisson, Epic of Evolution: Seven Ages of the Cosmos

In The Galaxy’s Arms

“When the image is new, the world is new.”

— Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space

Earth’s Atmosphere From October 22nd To 27th, 2012.

“Life, for ever dying to be born afresh, for ever young and eager, will presently stand upon this earth as upon a footstool, and stretch out its realm amidst the stars.”

— H. G. Wells, The Outline of History, 1920

Andromeda galaxy (M31), Our Closest Neighbor

“1 universe, 100 billion galaxies, 1 solar system, 8 planets, 204 countries, 804 islands, 7 seas, 7 billion people…you think that’s all there is?”

— SimplySpace