Grand Planets

http://www.solarviews.com/raw/sat/saturn.gif

http://www.universetoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/11/2006-1128pluto1.JPG

(pluto not a planet blah blah don't care cuz these pics are rad). disco ball pluto:

http://www.kottke.org/plus/misc/images/pluto.jpg

http://stardate.org/images/gallery/pluto1.jpg

awwww this one's cute

http://www.siec.k12.in.us/~west/proj/space/pix/PLUTO.GIF

^^^pluto

pluto: a planet the size (and color and shape) of a watermelon.

this one's for kells:

http://mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/blobrana/database/pic/uranus.jpg

there are more than 400 billion galaxies in the observable universe
http://slog.thestranger.com/files/2008/03/galaxies.jpg

http://i2.tinypic.com/71n6gif.jpg

http://imgsrc.hubblesite.org/hu/db/2008/16/images/a/formats/web_print.jpg

Like two spinning saw blades slicing through each other, a pair of spiral galaxies collide in this Hubble image of an object called NGC 6050. The Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore has released 59 new images of galaxies in collision, part of a celebration today of the 18th anniverary of the orbiting observatory's launch.

Collectively titled "Galaxies Gone Wild," the photos constitute the largest collection of Hubble images ever released at one time by the Institute.

"Galaxies have a wild side. They have flirtatious close encounters that sometimes end in grand mergers and overflowing 'maternity wards' of new star birth as the colliding galaxies morph into wondrous new shapes," the institute said.

http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/news/sciencematters/blog/collision3.jpg

http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20080424/2008_04_24t111317_450x450_us_space_hubble.jpg?

AM 1316-241 is made up of two interacting galaxies - a spiral galaxy (on the left of the frame) in front of an elliptical galaxy (on the right of the frame). The starlight from the background galaxy is partially obscured by the bands and filaments of dust associated with the foreground spiral galaxy.

http://www.esa.int/esa-mmg/mmg.pl?b=b&type=I&collection=Spacecraft%20Operations&start=1

they're about to set some shit down at the north pole of mars

never seen erilous before in a headline but hey here you go US probe to attempt erilous landing on Martian arctic

2331 gmt sunday

surprisingly great video of what the descent is going to be like
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7411113.stm

sunset on mars
http://www.boingboing.net/200806031503.jpg

that is fuckin killer

i want blue sunset

would make a good album cover

http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e381/samloveoil/gif/space.gif

hi this is a sound barrier being broken
http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/images/medium/00pp1416-m.jpg

Historic 1843 stellar outburst was a new type of star explosion

http://i221.photobucket.com/albums/dd118/embarchie/eclipse99_mir.jpg
Looking Back at an Eclipsed Earth
Credit: Mir 27 Crew

Here is what the Earth looks like during a solar eclipse. The shadow of the Moon can be seen darkening part of Earth. This shadow moved across the Earth at nearly 2000 kilometers per hour. Only observers near the center of the dark circle see a total solar eclipse - others see a partial eclipse where only part of the Sun appears blocked by the Moon. This spectacular picture of the 1999 August 11 solar eclipse was one of the last ever taken from the Mir space station, which was deorbited in a controlled re-entry in 2001.

On September 30, a spectacular bolide or fireball meteor surprised a group of amateur astronomers enjoying dark night skies over the Oklahoma panhandle's Black Mesa State Park in the Midwestern US

http://www.esa.int/images/A-N346_L.jpg
This portrait of a star-forming cloud, called NGC 346, is a combination of multiwavelength data from ESA’s XMM-Newton space-borne X-ray observatory, NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope and the European Southern Observatory's New Technology Telescope and also it's hell of cool looking

damn there are a bunch of big amazing pictures of the sun here
http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2008/10/the_sun.html

^meteor, canada, police camera

http://cache.boston.com/universal/site_graphics/blogs/bigpicture/saturn_05_30/cassini4.jpg

http://i221.photobucket.com/albums/dd118/embarchie/dn16903-1_500.jpg
The new survey mapped the positions of more than 100,000 galaxies. The black strips are areas the survey did not cover because matter in our own galaxy blocked the view

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap090413.html

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/04/cassinis_continued_mission.html

http://www.flickr.com/photos/nasahqphoto/3531350583/in/set-72157617823159021/