An Astronomy Blog
Dandelion Seed
by Mónica Pereira
Organic as a dandelion seed, [the ship of our imagination] will carry us to worlds of dreams and worlds of facts...
Carl Sagan, Cosmos
The Formation of the Solar System
4.6 billion years ago, the collapse of a cloud of gas and dust in the Milky Way galaxy originated our Solar System. This is the base of the Solar Nebula Theory, that succeeds in explaining the patterns and exceptions in our Planetary System. Go on reading
Crescent moon rising and the cusp of Earth's atmosphere. Image Credit: NASA
Amazing video showing the relative sizes Astronomy deals with. Go to link
Oldest observable galaxies through the Hubble. Image Credit: ESA/Hubble/NASA