f yeah, Carl Sagan

Our story is the story of the universe.

Every piece of everything, of everything you love and everything you hate, of the thing you hold most precious, was assembled by the forces of nature in the first few minutes of the life of the universe, transformed in the hearts of the stars or created in their fiery deaths.

And when you die, those pieces will be returned to the universe in the endless cycle of death and rebirth.

What a wonderful thing it is to be part of that universe. What a story, what a majestic story.

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—	Professor Brian Cox

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NGC7822

CopyRight: Rafael Rodriguez

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The Galactic Center

Pictured above, in greater detail and in more colors than ever seen before, are the combined images of the Hubble Space Telescope in near-infrared light, the Spitzer Space Telescope in infrared light, and the Chandra X-ray Observatory in X-ray light.

A menagerie of vast star fields is visible, along with dense star clusters, long filaments of gas and dust, expanding supernova remnants, and the energetic surroundings of what likely is our Galaxy’s central black hole.

Credit: NASA, ESA, SSC, CXC and STScI

The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.

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—	Carl Sagan (via freethoughtblog)

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10 Summer Vacations You Could Be Taking… In Space!

(Article by io9.com. Photo by solarsystem.nasa.gov.)

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Night Sky from Natural Bridges (by Codeve)

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IRAS: Looking to the Heavens

The pearly wisps surrounding the central star IRAS 10082-5647 in this Hubble image certainly draw the eye towards the heavens. The divine-looking cloud is a reflection nebula, made up of gas and dust glowing softly by the reflected light of nearby stars, in this case a young Herbig Ae/Be star.

The star, like others of this type, is still a relative youngster, only a few million years old. It has not yet reached the so-called main sequence phase, where it will spend around 80% of its life creating energy by burning hydrogen in its core.

Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA

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Janus Orbits By

Tiny moon Janus, seen before Saturn’s rings, with massive moon Titan beyond.

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ Cassini Spacecraft

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