Starlost - Space Fucks

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Reading about the Voyager golden record again will heal me

The lightest (i.e., least massive) known star, OTS 44 [3000 x 2400]

[The gaping maw of the universe can do nothing for this man.]

The Last Scene In The Movie by @wh0rism

M60-UCD1 black hole, via NASA

Why is there something here, instead of nothing? And why are we aware of this question—we people, particles going around and around this black stone? Why are we aware of it?

Annie Dillard, from For the Time Being (Alfred A. Knopf, 1999)

@nasa please launch me to these newly discovered habitable planets, i’m done with earth

imagine if aliens found the dead body of a human being exploded in the vacuum of space and they started making fun of the mutilated corpse calling it “splatter alien” and saying it was the ugliest alien in the whole galexy. and then made stuffed animals of it to sell to their alien kids. that’s what happened on this planet to the blob fish

NASA Telescope Reveals Largest Batch of Earth-Size, Habitable-Zone Planets Around Single Star