10 Mind-blowing featured images by NASA

These actually are the bottom of some cooking pans

...oh

This is a lovely home scene in Afghanistan

Why not use a gif?

i didn't have anything better to do anyways
i thought it wouldn't look as shit though :(

i remember that from somewhere...

www.funnyjunk.com/funny_pictures/3242465/Amazing/

Europe: as light, as it's residence are white.

Wow.
People thumbing him down.
Come on.
COME ON.
Really?
Are we really this new to the internet?

Maybe they didnt find the joke funny?

BUT ITS HILARIOUS.

Meh

Well.
It.
It's not.
But.
It kinda is.
Shit nigga I don't know

Of course he didn't PAY the light bill.

please laugh

That's YO MAMMA!!

I can't be the only one here who watch Robot Chicken...

The shifts in gravity might cause some few stars to be thrown out of the new galactic system, but they planets should stay in orbit around the stars.

They'd be fine.

I was not aware of that

You rang?

Go to YouTube, Search 'George Carlin on Global Warming'. Try not to be offended by him if it applies to you. When you've watched it, you shall calm down. Sure, we're pretty disrespectful, and some beautiful areas are currently fucked. But know this: The Planet is fine; We're fucked

if we destroy it enough, maybe some advanced alien species will tell how not to kill ourselves

Communists say "Fuck yo shit!"

The Spire.

(My personal Favorite.)

Thought that was called the Eagle Nebula?

It's part of the Eagle Nebula.

Ah.

So you're half right.

Fucking A bros.

You all should check out the size of the universe flash game.
It's pretty enlightening.

And Nebulas are fucking beautiful.
So are Space Dust Structures.
It's pretty crazy, just take into account, the spire. The earth isn't even see-able on that image (Size wise. It's so tiny compared to it.)

Apparently the rovers are supposed to bring back physical samples...

I'm cool about that, but my concern is about the telescope/pictures thing...

nah, they analyse the samples, but don't come back

Because we're curious.

Why so curious..?

the rover is able to test soil

let me explain a little better, sorry.

there are rocks on mars right? now one of the things they are looking for is rounded off rocks, now what does that mean?
rounded rocks means that there was once water to shape the rocks.

What if the rounded rocks are a form of life?

Curiosity was made to sample the soil and monitor the surface of Mars up close. While we can get some decent pictures with the HST, we gain nowhere near as much information or detail as we get when we send a probe or orbiter. (And not to mention the images of the sun and galaxies are looking at something extremely large from a far distance, so it's far easier to see in a relative detail than per say, a single crater on a planet in our own solar system. Much as you could compare taking a picture of a skyscraper from afar, to taking a picture of a single crack on the corner. You need to be closer to see it.

Pic related. It's the best picture we can get of Pluto without sending a probe.

fuck off

Those images are actually composites from three different types of telescopes. An X-ray, infrared, and optical telescope. Also, they're false-color images meaning that they've been manipulated to represent different levels of light intensity, not actual colors.

I don't think those pictures are taken with a normal camera. I think the telescopes that receive those images use a non-visible wavelength of light, and the images are what it should look like.

because science

Try not being such a faggeting douche next time would ya?

actually barack obama shut nasa down

>nasa shut down
>new mars rover Curiosity
>new James Webb Orbital Telescope
>Wat?

I hope you're trolling, Obama decided not to keep funding the Shuttle Program which was long overdue anyway. Especially with a relativity poor safety record.

Most of the world's major countries do contribute a little funding to all modern space missions but the US still funds the majority.

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