Orion Molecular Cloud

Carina, Clouds and Stardust

“Using nothing more than Newton’s laws of gravitation, we astronomers can confidently predict that several billion years from now, our home galaxy, the Milky Way, will merge with our neighboring galaxy Andromeda. Because the distances between the stars are so great compared to their sizes, few if any stars in either galaxy will actually collide.

Any life on the worlds of that far-off future should be safe, but they would be treated to an amazing, billion-year-long light show a dance of a half a trillion stars to music first heard on one little world by a man who had but one true friend.”

COSMOS: A Spacetime Odyssey (2014) written by Ann Druyan and Steven Soter

The Great Red Spot of Jupiter, observed by Voyager 1 on this day in 1979.

Carina Nebula

On this day in 1981, the Space Shuttle Columbia landed on Rogers Dry Lake at Edwards Air Force Base after completing its first orbital odyssey.

LDN 1471: A Windblown Star Cavity via NASA https://ift.tt/2ywsXin

Milky Way at Boddington, Western Australia

Nikon d5500 - 50mm - ISO 4000 - f/3.2 - Foreground: 7 x 15 seconds - Sky: 26 x 30 seconds - iOptron SkyTracker - Hoya Red Intensifier filter

Hubble Hooks a One-Arm Galaxy via NASA https://ift.tt/3bGuO2f

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