Originally shared by Fernando Mdza

Originally shared by Fernando Mdza

Amazing!!! 😍 🔭
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2972989/Camera-accidentally-captures-570-megapixel-image-COMET-Stunning-shot-Lovejoy-shocks-scientists-hunting-dark-energy.html

Originally shared by Tshaka “Villain McBeardface” Armstrong

How poignant? This is the last thing Leonard Nimoy tweeted.

If you didn't know, LLAP means "Live long and prosper."

Love the tiny galaxies in the distance... :-)

Love the tiny galaxies in the distance... :-)

Originally shared by Astronomy Picture of the Day (APoD)

Palomar 12
Image Credit: European Space Agency, ESA/Hubble, NASA
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap150219.html

Palomar 12 was not born here. The stars of the globular cluster, first identified in the Palomar Sky Survey, are younger than those in other globular star clusters that roam the halo of our Milky Way Galaxy. Palomar 12's position in our galaxy and measured motion suggest its home was once the Sagittarius Dwarf Elliptical Galaxy, a small satellite of the Milky Way. Disrupted by gravitational tides during close encounters the satellite galaxy has lost its stars to the larger Milky Way. Now part of the Milky Way's halo, the tidal capture of Palomar 12 likely took place some 1.7 billion years ago. Seen behind spiky foreground stars in the sharp Hubble image, Palomar 12 spans nearly 60 light-years. It lies about 60,000 light-years away, toward the constellation Capricornus.

Backyard sunset, looking toward the San Mateo Bridge

Originally shared by David L.

Originally shared by David L.

California coast: 2
Bixby bridge on Highway 1.

A cat named Nini

A cat named Nini

Another backyard bird

Another backyard bird