"Only you can bring the color in"Name: MindyAge: 22 years oldLocation: MarylandHeight: 5'6Started October 25, 2010HW:235 GW:150 UGW:140CW:
I think we’re going to the moon because it’s in the nature of the human being to face challenges. It’s by the nature of his deep inner soul. We’re required to do these things just as salmon swim upstream.
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M106 Close Up
Credit: Composite Image Data - Hubble Legacy Archive; Adrian Zsilavec, Michelle Qualls, Adam Block / NOAO / AURA / NSF
“ M106: An island universe: a spiral galaxy around 30 thousand light-years across located only about 21 million light-years beyond the stars of the Milky Way.”
NGC 602 and Beyond
Credit: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI / AURA) - ESA/Hubble Collaboration
André Kuipers, one of the astronauts currently aboard the ISS, recently installed NightPod. The device compensates for the ISS’ movement by tracking single points on Earth automatically allowing for truly magnificent images of the blue marble during the night.
Read more about NightPod and André Kuiper’s work on the esa PromISSe website.
Photos from André Kuipers (I, III) / europeanspaceagency (II, IV, V).
NGC 7049 - Dust and Lace in Space
image : NASA, ESA and W. Harris (McMaster Univ., Ont., Canada)
This beautiful backlit web of dust and stars is NGC 7049, a galaxy in the constellation of Indus in the southern sky. Sprinkled around 7049 are brilliant globular clusters, collections of stars that orbit the galaxy. The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope snapped this photograph in 2009.
(via: LiveScience)
