timelightbox:

Exclusive for TIME from NASA:

The view of New York from the International Space Station evolved today, as the new World Trade tower became the tallest building in the city. See more here.

jtotheizzoe:

What Space Looks Like to Kids

The winners of the Space Foundation Student Art Contest, a wonderful gallery of space through curious eyes.

(via Wired Science)

(via cheatsheet)

mothernaturenetwork:

Astronauts shoot video of Hurricane Irene from space, call it ‘big, scary storm’
On board the International Space Station, astronauts observed the structure of the massive hurricane becoming increasingly uniform and stronger.

lohud:

The front page of a Monday, July 21, 1969 edition of The Reporter Dispatch,
a forerunner of The Journal News, depicts Apollo 11’s landing on the moon on
Sunday, July 20, 1969. 

crookedindifference:

Space station astronauts forced to take refuge in “lifeboats” as space junk creates 29,000-mph close call

thevancouversun:

This NASA image obtained on February 15, 2011 shows a new image of a ring of black holes. This composite image of Arp 147, a pair of interacting galaxies located about 430 million light years from Earth, shows X-rays from the NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory (pink) and optical data from the Hubble Space Telescope (red, green, blue) produced by the Space Telescope Science Institute, or STScI. Arp 147 contains the remnant of a spiral galaxy (right) that collided with the elliptical galaxy on the left. This collision has produced an expanding wave of star formation that shows up as a blue ring containing in abundance of massive young stars. These stars race through their evolution in a few million years or less and explode as supernovas, leaving behind neutron stars and black holes. The nine X-ray sources scattered around the ring in Arp 147 are so bright that they must be black holes, with masses that are likely ten to twenty times that of the sun. An X-ray source is also detected in the nucleus of the red galaxy on the left and may be powered by a poorly-fed supermassive black hole. This source is not obvious in the composite image but can easily be seen in the X-ray image. Other objects unrelated to Arp 147 are also visible: a foreground star in the lower left of the image and a background quasar as the pink source above and to the left of the red galaxy.