As The Cassini Mission To Saturn Draws In To It’s Final Year, Take A Look At Some Of The Most Fantastic

Dyrhólaey, Iceland.

Bruno Hans Bürgel - Aus Fernen Welten, 1920.

Waitomo Glowworm Caves // Shaun Jeffers

Sharpless 308: Star Bubble by Anis Abdul

Lightning Appreciation Post:

There are nearly 500 lightning strikes every second around the world.

Only about 100 of these strike the earth, the others are between and within the clouds themselves.

Lightning is very visible from space (last gif from Astronaut Reid Wiseman)

Besides regular storms (thunder storms, hurricanes, etc.) lightning can be found in volcanoes (gif 3) and even intense forest fires.

In conclusion: nature is fucking awesome!

ice flower

by Denny Bitte

Cloud Mountain // Joni Niemelä

Even if you step towards a place from which you can’t return you choose not to reveal your screaming for help to other people

Jupiter’s Galilean Moons

Io - Jupiter’s volcanic moon

Europa -  Jupiter’s icy moon

Ganymede - Jupiter’s (and the solar system’s) largest moon

Callisto -  Jupiter’s heavily cratered moon

Made using: Celestia, Screen2Gif & GIMP Based on: @spaceplasma‘s solar system gifs Profile sources: http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets, http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/factsheet/joviansatfact.html