In Relation To The Earth, I’m Not That Far Away From Where I Was Born. But In Relation To The Universe,

First images from the James Webb Space Telescope:

Galaxy cluster SMACS 0723

Southern Ring planetary nebula

Stephan’s Quintet

Carina Nebula

Saying there is no life on other planets is like getting a cup full of sea water and saying there are no fish in the sea

We are nothing but space dust trying to find its way back to the stars.

Love And Space Dust (via story-dj)

Jovian ‘Twilight Zone’

This image captures the swirling cloud formations around the south pole of Jupiter, looking up toward the equatorial region. NASA’s Juno spacecraft took the color-enhanced image during its eleventh close flyby of the gas giant planet on Feb. 7 at 7:11 a.m. PST (10:11 a.m. EST). At the time, the spacecraft was 74,896 miles (120,533 kilometers) from the tops of Jupiter’s clouds at 84.9 degrees south latitude. To make features more visible in Jupiter’s terminator — the region where day meets night — the Juno team adjusted JunoCam so that it would perform like a portrait photographer taking multiple photos at different exposures, hoping to capture one image with the intended light balance. For JunoCam to collect enough light to reveal features in Jupiter’s dark twilight zone, the much brighter illuminated day-side of Jupiter becomes overexposed with the higher exposure.  Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Gerald Eichstädt

Neptune and its moons (Proteus, Larissa, Despina and Galatea) 

Credit: NASA / Hubble (infrared)

The Solar System!

bonus Pluto!

what if...................... i was chilling............ and then a tumblr infographic said only 8% of all the planets that will ever exist have already been formed and earth is one of them there are 92% more planets to exist we're not alone we're just first we're not alone we're just early if the entire universe was 100 planets we would be in the first eight and the other ninety-two don't exist yet new planets will be born as ours becomes a faded memory to the vast expanse of the universe we're not alone we're just early our entire existence is a smear on the windscreen of the cosmos the universe is unimaginably big but unimaginably small compared to what it will be we're not alone we won't be alone we're just early

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