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Video Post: Some interesting and inspiring Neil deGrasse Tyson clips

I love feeling inspired. I love feeling moved. I love feeling connected. Watching these videos allowed me some of that this morning because it motivated me to take my fiance and our dog out on a nature walk. We got Lost in the nature preserve and it ended up taking about 2 hours to get out but I still feel it was worth it. The journey was awesome and to me that is what matters.

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That is one detailed Flash of the Solar System

I've been stumbling and I just discovered this AWESOME GALACTIC TOOL. Check it out. It is interactive, expanding and ever updating...... gosh I love stumble. YOu can get a panoramic view from Earth or go Geocentric or Heliocentric. IT is quite awwwwwwesome. Continue Reading for the full link

This is pretty much my plot to a short story I've called 'Evil Dead in space': Mars pioneers more than likely to go bat$h!t cray cray (or..crazy. which ever)

I'd just like to start off by saying that since its announcement I've been pretty geared up about our mission to mars. I think that its wild, innovative, ballsy, and a step towards our expansion of the stars. When the project/mission/whatever-its-called were made public I'm not going to lie I applied, and it was EXCITING. Not to mention I was going through some stuff and wouldn't have minded leaving Earth and never coming back (double bonus!) but in all seriousness...... new things have come to light
Lately the project is facing scrutiny as an article was just released detailing the more than likely (in science we call that probable) chance that these brave souls will go insane or suffer from some (if more than some) psychological illnesses. Continue reading though for more depressing info! (quite interesting I say)

Did Andromeda crash into the Milky Way 10 billion years ago?

The Milky Way Galaxy,  composed roughly out of 200 billion stars, a part of a group of galaxies called the 'Local Group'. Astrophysicists theorise that most of the mass of the Local Group is invisible, made up of so-called 'dark matter'.


"For many years scientists have believed that our Galaxy, the Milky Way, is set to crash into its larger neighbour, the Andromeda Galaxy, in about 3 billion years’ time and that this will be the first time such a collision has taken place. But now a European team of astronomers led by Hongsheng Zhao of the University of St Andrews propose a very different idea; that the two star systems collided once before, some 10 billion years ago and that our understanding of gravity is fundamentally wrong."