#spaaaaace

[anghraine]

"Much knowledge that was forgotten because it wasn't needed for many years has been recovered" sounds like something out of a fantasy novel, but it's actually from Voyager mission engineer Kareem Badaruddin wrt Voyager 1, and one of various awesome quotes in this article about the possible effective death of the Voyager 1 mission.

[fantazist]

just a simple sketch :Р

[sepdet]

I went out to a little "glamping" bungalow near Joshua Tree last night to try my new telescope under clear skies.

Smoke from wildfires, light glow from the gibbous moon, and collimation troubles mean these images are still not the best I think I can coax out of this beastie. but I am pleased.

I'm leaving the optional timestamp on each of these images, since the telescope will label what they are ("M8 Lagoon Nebula", eg.) The time in minutes is the exposure length. These are all visible wavelengths, btw— no filters, infrared, etc.

Here are several nebulae (yes, that's the Trifid Nebula), a couple of globular star clusters, a beautiful galaxy drawing in a friend, and a deep sky comet that is getting hyped up although we can't be sure yet that it won't break apart as it loops around the particularly active Sun.

[rapaduraalada]

SPAAAAAAAAACE

[existentialterror]

Touching love poem from the Wikipedia page on Carl Sagan (2023-02-03.)

[fisitronsflame]

Once more, awoo.

[byz-was-here]

I for one, would love to see the look on the mask of the first Ko-Matoran to look at a star or planet through an upgraded telescope and realize that point of light is actually a place you could theoretically go to instead of an LED mounted in some distant dome ceiling.

[reddy-for-more]

Our visitor, asteroid 2024 PT5, has arrived :) It has been playfully called Earth's temporary "second moon" and will be traveling with us for about two months.

Here's a thing from space.com talking about it

[infinialtairs]

✨ Introduction into the Nebula realm ✨

Hi! i been wanting to do intro post for anyone here for a while since i began using tumblr more this year

I'm Noah! just silly trans dude artist who draws furries and some other stuff, also very loves space in general and aesthetically :D

Currently as much as i been mostly posting Rayman and Captain Laserhawk contents as they are my big interests, A Hat in Time is also one of them and i might actually come back drawing more of it!

Knowing Tumblr is focusing more on fandoms based, and i don't know if anyone would wanna see more of my original works but we'll just see 🦊 (i'm still working on my series concept Distant Bay, i really need grind my shits on it 😭)

I do also animations too though less frequently and it's something i'm trying show more and do more of them cuz i like animating even when it's pain :')

(i forgot to put links to other socials i have if anyone's interested lol: https://linktr.ee/noahowlz )

also The Conductor (AHiT) is "my" husband and that's canon /j (i'm mostly light hearted joking about it, i'm just very attached to eyeless yellow birdman :'>)

Again just fun little intro post, i'm usually not great with introducing myself as i wanna balance it of not too info-dumping and not also come across boring or smth idk

Have silly gifs related to things cuz i said so

[uchidachi]

Eclipse outfit

[soundsanssprechen]

Hairball

Theory writ large The holographic principle Taken to the very limits of all the light touches Yet still we wonder What’s beyond? You don’t matter, Matter Energy never really cared for you anyway See how she quantum jumps away Every time you try to grab her still Image is just a Lord of Time’s lament Synthesise new ways to see Entropy flowing within each binary heart of me Slither and slide into each crack of thee And see a new colony of the selves What might they be? I think I need a Doctor Is it you? Or is it me?

[davidthephoneguy]

DUDES INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION

This was in my sky tonight, very sick /pos

[villainessbian]

Project Lyra's Jupiter fly-by explained:

[leeshajoy]

My hypothesized answer to the Fermi paradox is that every extraterrestrial sapient species took one look at the radioactive death void outside their planet's atmosphere and went "fuck that, we're staying home."

[lostinmirkwood]

Only had a few seconds of clear skies to see the corona but the darkness was unforgettable.

[existentialterror]

I am too fearful of the night to ever really uncomplicately love the stars

which sounds sad but if you think about it, that's not all bad; it adds excitement and thrill, which I think has real value even though I recognize that's fueled by motivated reasoning, plus probably it almost certainly heightens my perception of how great the stars are, by contrast,