This is a 12-year timelapse packed into just 7 seconds of four planets orbiting star HR 8799, some 133.3 lightyears (40.9 parsecs, like that’ll make it much more relatable) from earth. HR 8799, located in the constellation of Pegasus, is about 1.5 times as large as our own sun, and

Note: If you’re looking for some bitchin’ desktop backgrounds you can get super high-res versions of the Hubble’s 1995 image HERE, 2004 image HERE, and James Webb’s most recent shot HERE. Now let’s play space rangers! The Pillars of Creation, made famous by the Hubble Space Telescope’s 1995 and 2004

Hot off the press from NASA come these incredible images of the Cartwheel Galaxy, an absolute stunner of a galaxy some 500 million light years from earth. I remember the last time I attempted a cartwheel my shirt rode up and everyone laughed at my belly. Not cool. The galaxy

This is a short timelapse video captured by sky watcher Preston Chamblen of the Milky Way beginning to rise in the early morning hours. In his own words while I grab some binoculars and stare at the sun until I can see through walls, or not at all. Go big

This is a beautiful, surprisingly low-definition video (did they text the video to Youtube and it got compressed? And does the lower quality make the shapes even more mesmerizing?) Per one particularly insightful Youtube commenter: “It would be cool it they took the shape of other animals like a rabbit

Snowflakes: like fingerprints, no two are exactly alike. Sure, maybe I saw some VERY SIMILAR ones in my day, but not exact. “Are you talking about fingerprints or snowflakes?” I thought we were talking about butts. This is a macro video from photographer Jens of Another Perspective of snowflakes melting,

This is a leaked government photo that’s believed to have been taken in 2018 of a “motionless, cube-shaped” unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP) as captured by the personal cell phone of “a backseat weapons system operator on an F/A-18F Super Hornet” while flying over the Atlantic Ocean off the east coast

Created by former professor of urban studies Alasdair Rae of Sheffield, England, this is a 3D visualization of the world’s population density. As you can see, along all the coasts are generally very popular places to live. Also, absolutely everywhere in Asia. If there’s dry land to walk on there,