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This blog may perhaps be only about science and astronomy... and Carl Sagan.

I aspire to be a scientist of some kind in the future, specifically an astrophysicist.

I am 16 years old.

This is a personal blog, so don't expect a constant stream of science/Sagan 24/7. I try to keep it consistent but occasionally diverge.

Thanks for visiting :D

Nebulullaby.

Elegant, mysterious. I hope I live to see humans walk and live here.

Elegant, mysterious. I hope I live to see humans walk and live here.

(Source: shinorenji)

cosmosplasma:

Nature is more than a scientist, an engineer… it’s an artist, in the grandest of scales.

religionbullshit: “Eu me tornei um ateísta e o mundo se tornou maior!”

religionbullshit:

“Eu me tornei um ateísta e o mundo se tornou maior!”

prrfctdisaster: Carl Sagan knows whatsup

prrfctdisaster:

Carl Sagan knows whatsup

cosmosplasma: Above is an image of the breathtaking Rosette Nebula. It is constantly being blown apart by stellar winds exerted from a recently formed bright star at its center.

cosmosplasma:

Above is an image of the breathtaking Rosette Nebula. It is constantly being blown apart by stellar winds exerted from a recently formed bright star at its center.

(Source: lookingforether)

Meteor shower tonight

orlyabe: “You know shes playing hard to get when shes trying to break out of your van.”   — Carl Sagan He totally said that

orlyabe:

“You know shes playing hard to get when shes trying to break out of your van.”  

— Carl Sagan

He totally said that

princesssylviap: magic

princesssylviap:

magic

matthen: Why is it always better to look for shooting stars just before dawn? This shows a simulation of the Earth going on its orbit around the Sun, and encountering the debris from a comet that has passed by. This is precisely what the Earth has been doing for the past couple of days, creating the Perseid meteor shower. The A.M. half of the Earth is at the front of the orbit, and like a car’s front wind shield it picks up a lot of the debris. Have a look out for meteors again tonight! [code] [more]

matthen:

Why is it always better to look for shooting stars just before dawn? This shows a simulation of the Earth going on its orbit around the Sun, and encountering the debris from a comet that has passed by. This is precisely what the Earth has been doing for the past couple of days, creating the Perseid meteor shower. The A.M. half of the Earth is at the front of the orbit, and like a car’s front wind shield it picks up a lot of the debris. Have a look out for meteors again tonight! [code] [more]

fuckyeahspaceexploration:  Jim McDivitt  Source

fuckyeahspaceexploration:

 Jim McDivitt 

Source

lookatthesefuckinstars:

favorite from Cassini pt. I

It’s no secret that I’m an enormous fan of Cassini, so this will probably have to come in several installments.

mymindisodd:

FUCK YEAHH

Okay.. Carl Sagan was pretty hot.

And the bastard knew it.

“A handful of sand contains about 10,000 grains, more than the number of stars we can see with the naked eye on a clear night. But the number of stars we can see is only the tiniest fraction of the number of stars there are. What we see at night is the merest smattering of the nearest stars. Meanwhile the Cosmos is rich beyond measure: the total number of stars in the universe is greater than all the grains of sand on all the beaches of the planet Earth.”-Carl Sagan, Cosmos

“A handful of sand contains about 10,000 grains, more than the number of stars we can see with the naked eye on a clear night. But the number of stars we can see is only the tiniest fraction of the number of stars there are. What we see at night is the merest smattering of the nearest stars. Meanwhile the Cosmos is rich beyond measure: the total number of stars in the universe is greater than all the grains of sand on all the beaches of the planet Earth.”

-Carl Sagan, Cosmos