For A Star To Be Born, There Is One Thing That Must Happen: A Gaseous Nebula Must Collapse. So Collapse.

A Cosmic Geek, at Sunset

Parents: Wow look at how beautiful the sunset is. Catherine? Catherine? Why are you looking away?

A Cosmic Geek: Shush I'm trying to figure out what phase the Moon is in. Is that a Waxing Gibbous? Waning??? (Edit: it was a Waxing Gibbous - also there's going to be a Full Moon on May 7th!!!)

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Today's Moon Phase!

Keep track of the Moon on MoonGiant as it does it's monthly dance around the Earth

Tonight’s a New Moon!

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That’s gorgeous! 

This picture right here is why I hate light pollution

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The Galaxy Above : Have you contemplated your home galaxy lately? If your sky looked like this, perhaps you’d contemplate it more often! The featured picture is actually a composite of two images taken last month from the same location in south Brazil and with the same camera – but a few hours apart. The person in the image – also the astrophotographer – has much to see in the Milky Way Galaxy above. The central band of our home Galaxy stretches diagonally up from the lower left. This band is dotted with spectacular sights including dark nebular filaments, bright blue stars, and red nebulas. Millions of fainter and redder stars fill in the deep Galactic background. To the lower right of the Milky Way are the colorful gas and dust clouds of Rho Ophiuchus, featuring the bright orange star Antares. On this night, just above and to the right of Antares was a bright planet Jupiter. The sky is so old and so familiar that humanity has formulated many stories about it, some of which inspired this very picture. via NASA

Can I go to Lake Thetis? Damn.

Florida’s got nothing on this place, I’m sorry. 

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Milky Way + Stromatolites - Lake Thetis, Western Australia

Nikon d5500 - 35mm - 9 x 13s - ISO 3200 - f/2.2

Poor, poor moon :(

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“boy, girl, time for dinner!”

It’s been two years, and I’ll never forget him.

I remember when I was little and I loved space, but I was worried that I would be too bored of the astrophysics area. Then I read Mr. Hawking’s book a Brief History of Time, and I fell in love.

Thanks, Stephie.

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The world lost an amazing thinker today. Celebrated world-renowned physicist Stephen Hawking passed away in Cambridge on March 14th, 2018 (Pi Day), at age 76. Somehow, I think he would have found this to be very poetic.

Stephen William Hawking CH CBE FRS FRSA was an English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, author and Director of Research at the Centre for Theoretical Cosmology within the University of Cambridge.

So I actually did the calculations and the surface area of Jupiter could probably fit around 11,474,491,000,000 football fields.

Okay so I googled it and the radius of Jupiter is 43,441 miles. However, I’m going to convert that into meters, which’ll make that radius a cool 69,911,513 m. Next up I’ll plug that into the surface area of a sphere formula (A= 4πr^2) which will get us approximately 6.14 x 10^16 m^2 (or roughly 61,400,000,000,000,000 m^2).

Next, I found the area of one football field to be around 5,351 m^2. Dividing the surface area of Jupiter by the surface area of one football field, we can find out how many football fields will fit onto the surface of Jupiter. And that is 1.1474491 x 10^13. Calculating that, that will be 11,474,491,000,000 football fields (11 trillion or so). Oh boy.

For comparison’s sake, the universe is estimated to have AT MOST 2 trillion galaxies! Which means that Jupiter likely could fit more football fields than the universe has galaxies. Another example, there are an estimated billion trillion stars in the observable universe. Jupiter’s football fields account for half of the stars in our observable universe.

I actually tried to find out how many football fields were in the U.S. for comparison but I still can’t find a statistic. 

But also that’s pretty hilarious xD

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No WaY

Woah :o

So, basically, like the Mission Space ride at Epcot (that one is my favoriteeeee)?

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Testing and Training on the Boeing Starliner : NASA astronaut Mike Fincke works through a check list inside a mockup of Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner during a simulation at NASA’s Johnson Space Center on Aug. 21, 2019. (via NASA)

It’s alive ALIVE!!!!!

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Hubble Takes Closer Look at Not-So-‘Dead’ Neighbor : Because they lack stellar nurseries and contain mostly old stars, elliptical galaxies — Like Messier 110 — are often considered “dead” when compared to their spiral relatives. But scientists have spotted signs of a population of young, blue stars at Messier 110’s center, hinting that this neighbor of our Milky Way may not be so “dead” after all. (via NASA)

Okay, that is really funny lol

Also - I’m back from my self-imposed vacation! I’m drafting the next chapter and starting my post schedule tomorrow, so look forward to new content coming soon!

I hope you’re all doing well :)

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Here’s some physics.