Lol Watch Irma Try To Run Up On Me…

It’s weird to think that nighttime is the natural state of the universe and daytime is only caused by a nearby, radiating ball of flame.

Moving on #2k16

Not a planet, and that is okay

Chemical Space Gardens

You know that colorful crystal garden you grew as a kid?

Yeah, we do that in space now. 

Chemical Gardens, a new investigation aboard the International Space Station takes a classic science experiment to space with the hope of improving our understanding of gravity’s impact on their structural formation.

Here on Earth, chemical gardens are most often used to teach students about things like chemical reactions.

Chemical gardens form when dissolvable metal salts are placed in an aqueous solution containing anions such as silicate, borate, phosphate, or carbonate.

Delivered to the space station aboard SpaceX’S CRS-15 cargo mission, the samples for this experiment will be processed by crew members and grown throughout Expedition 56 before returning to Earth.

Results from this investigation could provide a better understanding of cement science and improvements to biomaterial devices used for scaffolding, for use both in space and on Earth. 

Follow the growth of the chemical garden and the hundreds of other investigations constantly orbiting above you by following @ISS_Research on Twitter.

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when you have to take physics before SPACE 🚀 😭😭😭

some times i remember i have to survive another semester of ((biology)) just to get to SPACE !! which is next year,,, it makes me sad

The planets!  Includes surface temperature, diameter, distance from sun, orbit period, and length of day.

why do you waste your time like this

because i literally have no life 

ha ha get it because i’m a planet with no life on it ha ha ha 

being uninhabitable is kinda lonely tho tbh someone move me closer to the sun pls

happ eclipse 2017 im glad the sun got to see her long distance gf

Circus Tree: Six individual sycamore trees were shaped, bent, and braided to form this.

NASA: hey check out these cool earth like planets 40 light years away

me: omg !! i wanna go !!!

google: that's 700,000 years

me, unfazed: take me to the aliens