This is a video featuring the late great astronomer Carl Sagan reading the popular excerpt from his 1994 book ‘Pale Blue Dot’, set to the classical music piece ‘Spiegel im Spiegel’ by Arvo Pärt for extra poignancy. The original photo, which features earth as seen from a distance of some

To celebrate the Hubble Space Telescope’s 35 years in service, this is a video detailing a 2.5-billion pixel composite image of the Andromeda Galaxy, stitched together from 600 individual photos take by the telescope over ten years. Absolutely stunning (like you, or if you’re a dude: total stud). The Andromeda

This is a 3D visualization created by Global Data featuring the scale of various objects in the universe, beginning with subatomic particles, then covering animals and manmade objects and landmarks we’re all familiar with here on earth before traveling into space, ending with the Hercules–Corona Borealis Great Wall. The Great

This is a video of Youtuber Inheritance Machining creating a Mobius cube — a cube that, like it’s Mobius strip cousin, only has a single side. My brain hurts just thinking about it. I remember the first time I saw M.C. Esher’s Mobius Strip II (with the red ants) I

Because what does it all mean is THE question, this is a shot from the James Webb Space Telescope of a galaxy that looks unquestionable like a question mark. Some more info while I shake my fist at the heavens and demand fewer questions and more answers: It is probably

Captured by the Hubble Space Telescope’s Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) in the constellation Leo Minor, galaxy clusters SDSS J0952+3434 appear as a giant smiley face, grinning at us from 4-billion light years away. Ha, I’d be smiling too if I were that far away from the dirtbags on earth.

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