Hello! I'm Jake. I like long strolls under the stars, holding hands with girls, and throwing up on hobos. Sometimes I like to empty big bags of change onto hobos from skyscraper rooftops. What can I say, I'm charitable. So yeah this is all random. I'm 20, from NC. I like hockey, paranormal, photography and film, writing, science fiction, boobs, cacti, Pink Floyd, music in general, meixcan food, getting asks, getting followers, and comedy. And I actually do like the first two up there o-o
Two colliding Nebulas
Atlantis ISS Plasma Trail
(via schanks)
Absofuckinglutely beautiful. I love my constant bewilderment by the world we live in and our tiny little place in the universe.
(via bayrose)
China and Europe Both Have Plans To Prevent Deadly Asteroid Apophis from Hitting Earth in 2029 (or 2036)
Apophis is a 46 million tonne asteroid that will pass within a hair’s breath of Earth in 2029. However, Apophis’s trajectory is likely to take it through a region of space near Earth known as a keyhole that will ensure the asteroid returns in 2036.
Nobody knows how close Apophis will come on that pass. But if there’s a chance of a collision, we’ll have only 7 years to work out how to avoid catastrophe.
Researchers at Tsinghua University in Beijing say their preference is to use a solar sail to place a small spacecraft into a retrograde orbit and on collision course with Apophis. The retrograde orbit will give it an impact velocity of 90km/s which, if they do this well enough in advance, should lead to a collision large enough to do the trick.In 2002, the European Space Agency began a program called Don Quijote to find out how best to perform such a deflection.
Don Quijote involves sending two spacecraft to a near Earth asteroid; one to smash into it and the other to watch while in orbit above the impact crater. The goal is to change the asteroid’s semimajor axis by more than 100 metres and to measure the change with an accuracy greater than 1 per cent.
wow
I’ve just been outside (literally, was standing in my backyard for about 20 minutes) and the sky here is clearer than it’s been all summer, and I saw a handful of shooting stars via Perseids and just found out the Cassiopeia sits right above my house :3
I live in a suburb just outside of a…
I <3 Space
I saw a majestic video of the Earth’s rotation and JIZZED IN MY PANTS. Amazing.
Alaska’s Susitna Glacier
A sexier perspective of a sunset over South America.
I just love Space.
The dwarf galaxy NGC 4214 is ablaze with young stars and gas clouds.
