#god I love space

[justhorizon1]

Didn't feel like drawing Rain World today q:

Presenting : Jupiter and Io

It didn't exactly turn out the way I wanted it to, but its good enough ig.

[buymymojo]

Music videos about fun space stuff in a visually distinct style has got to one of my favourite genders

[sonofarathorn]

James Webb Telescope, my beloved ♥️

[jaidethalagorra]

Sci-fi concept:

The “living ship” genre of starship is pretty common across sci-fi. But why are they always animals?? I want to see a living ship that’s grown.

As in, a massive, still-growing plant starship that photosynthesizes with raw, unfiltered starlight and drifts through the universe. The bigger the starship, the older it is (and likely, assuming a sci-fi universe where everyone wants everyone else dead), the better it is in combat.

If you still want to keep the whole color/smooth lines and weird shapes vibe that so much of the living ship genre loves, then just make it a fungus. Those things are terrifying. (And the concept of starfighter spores ejecting from gills along its sides or something is cool as hell.) or maybe the fungus takes over destroyed ships and you get these massive fungi-covered ships drifting through space and killing things.

I don’t know. Point is, spaceships that are living but they’re plants.

[razoolio]

Have i mentioned i really love space? Cause i really love space. Gaze upon the pillars of creation! A well known nebula and stellar nursery.

[chipswsalsa]

just watched the international space station fly overhead and dare i say, that was one of the coolest things i’ve ever experienced

[nopity-nope]

They made space gay!!! a win for the ligbits

Above image is a pride flag with every color band represented by a NASA image. White is Earth clouds, pink is aurora, blue is the Sun in a specific wavelength, brown is Jupiter clouds, black is the Hubble deep field, red is the top of sprites, orange is a Mars crater, yellow is the surface of Io, green is a lake with algae, blue is Neptune, and purple is the Crab Nebula in a specific wavelength.

[sunshineastro]

it’s actually insane to me how much research was put into TNG because like yes obviously a lot of the science is Just Technobabble but a good amount of what’s in there makes sense!!! or at least references real-life phenomena!!! even some of the stuff that, when i was a kid, my parents were like “haha isn’t it so funny that they make these things up?” is Real, and that’s so crazy to me

[rararasputins-dick-mind-control]

are these not the most badass names. a fuckin pulsar named Lich and its three minions Draugr Poltergeist and Phobetor

[thejellycat]

today I'm screaming about the Discovery shuttle. I got to go to Udvar-Hazy and see it for the first time ever and it blew my fucking mind. like. it doesn't look real? it's covered in thermal plating and protective materials that make it look like it's a model made of foam. it's absolutely mind blowing.

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like look at this fucking marvel of engineering. this thing went into space more than 100 times. and now it chills here in a museum for all of us to come look at. there's a bench across from it and me and my sister just sat there for a while staring. I had to keep reminding myself that it was real.

[froopinghiddles]

And even FURTHER out we’ve got another silent protector with an insane gravitational field that yanks space crap too big for the Moon away from us, blowing us kisses as he goes by 😘 thanks, Jupiter!

[legendofice]

guys- nature, earth and space is so cool??

LIKE CMON?? THE GEOMAGNETIC STORM THAT JUST HAPPENED, HOT SPRINGS AND GEYSERS, AND EVEN THE SIMPLEST THINGS…. Like the sun filtering through the leaves and looking all pretty.

it’s so fucking cool.

[jaidethalagorra]

Another, unrelated sci-fi concept

I was talking with some friends about the concept of “space as an ocean” and wound up writing this world-building piece that turned out like a poem. Anyways, the overarching concept is that space is like an ocean but it’s like the ocean on earth, which means that no one uses it, it’s overly commercialized, and it’s full of trash.

(Long poem concept thing below the break)

Space is an ocean

and it’s totally obsolete.

If you want to get anywhere, you teleport there and get there in half the time. The only ships travelling across the cold, dark void of interstellar space are corporate haulers, gilded star cruisers, and military carriers in the middle of nowhere with too many guns to count. It’s too expensive to transport that many goods via teleporter, customers love the nebula cruise, and the system governments won’t say what the carriers are for.

Space is an ocean

And it’s a mess.

Interstellar space and local space is filled with junk no one wanted to keep in their system. Black holes swarm through the galaxy, mindlessly eating the garbage created by the thousands of star systems. And growing. Deep space is mined constantly. Valuable gasses are extracted from the hearts of nebulae and rogue exoplanets are mined until there’s nothing left of them but a few worthless rocks drifting in space. Already, nebulae are starting to run dry of valuable gasses.

Space is an ocean

And it’s a mystery no one wants to solve

Deep space is slowly being explored and categorized by dedicated scientists, but the dangers of going out so far keep most of the big discoveries at bay. They’re sure something is alive out there, but it slips from shadow to shadow and hides deeper and deeper in the darkness. Some people survive catastrophic disasters on starships, and their stories of drifting across space are well-known. They speak of dark things in the shadows, worlds we could never dream of, and an endless black void

Space is an ocean

And no one leaves the coastline.

The space within a system is full of activity. Private starfighter clubs, massive yachts of starships, and small asteroid and gas mining ships dot the safe sectors of system space. No one goes out past the far reaches of the planets, if they don’t want to get stranded.

Space is an ocean

And it sucks.

[oifaaa]

Fun new game I'm playing while watching the new Percy Jackson show called "Was this actually different in the books or is my memory just shit"

[egophiliac]

DOGS

IN

SPACE

[spacizia]

he’s just a swinging space age bachelor man!!!!