What Are Your Favorite Things In Outer Space? 56k here be dragons.

Lets face it. We are all going to die on this rock. But space is full of cool stuff. Talk about it and post your favorite things in that huge cold expanse!

Here are some of my favorites.

Titan.

Saturns famed moon Titan is the only other place in the solar system to have liquid lakes (one of which is bigger thanLake Superior)and the only moon to have a atmosphere that isn't total crap. Sure the lakes are made of deadly methane and the air would kill you in seconds but it is full of organic compounds that make it as unique canidate for space colonization in our solar system.

Clouds on titan.

The surface of Titan.

Ganymede.

Oh whats this you ask? Only the biggest moon in the SOLAR SYSTEM! You think that moon you see every night is big? Well its got nothing on this thing!

It has an awesome ice crust.

Europa

Europa is another moon of Jupiter and slightly smaller than our own moon. It is speculated to have liquid water lakes underneith its surface which make it an interesting target for exploration. It also has a tenuous atmosphere made mostly of oxygen and has one of the smoothest surface in the entire solar system. Some are proposing a probe which will drill into the liquid water and explore. Some suggest that it might harbor life similar to life found in geothermal vents on Earth.

Callisto.

Like Europa Callisto also has water and stuff. It looks pretty.

Space is cool go check it out.

Saturn, picture taken on its ring plane by the Cassini space probe. The thin blue line are the rings, which are actually on 10 meters in thickness. The tiny blue dots are moons.

The Borg

The Borg

F1_2004

Cool thread. I'd like to contribute the Horsehead Nebula :P :

Giant Space Hamsters!

space boobies

Hubble's Ultra Deep Field.

VY Canis Majoris.

The Pillars:

Quasars always fascinated mexaos

I am slightly disappointed - I thought I would be linked to this:

No one mentioned Black Holes yet??

The Pillars:

rockguy92

Hubble's Ultra Deep Field.

Dystopian-X

Space is cool go check it out.

IndigoSunrise

[QUOTE="xaos"]Quasars always fascinated meentropyecho

I am slightly disappointed - I thought I would be linked to this:

VY Canis Majoris.

Dystopian-X

The Pillars:

rockguy92

thats so beautiful if i didnt know any better iw uld think that thats fake

Space dragons!!!!!!!!!

Eta Carinae. A star that's so big, hot and bright it can't even sustain itself.

It's also theorized as the next star to go supernova. Unfortunately, not in our lifetime.

It's also theorized as the next star to go supernova. Unfortunately, not in our lifetime.

cd_rom

[QUOTE="cd_rom"]

It's also theorized as the next star to go supernova. Unfortunately, not in our lifetime.

xaos

yeah, let's the nuke the hell out of it! :x

[QUOTE="xaos"][QUOTE="cd_rom"]

It's also theorized as the next star to go supernova. Unfortunately, not in our lifetime.

DJ-Lafleur

yeah, let's the nuke the hell out of it! :x

Black Holes: one of the most intriguing and mysterious things that exist in the universe.

Do you have that website where they compare the largest star in our galaxy to other stuff, like Earth and the Sun? Just wondering. ;)

ice_rootbeer

Hmm not sure which site. But sounds similar to this.

[QUOTE="ice_rootbeer"]

Do you have that website where they compare the largest star in our galaxy to other stuff, like Earth and the Sun? Just wondering. ;)

Dystopian-X

Hmm not sure which site. But sounds similar to this.

Yeah, that's it. Do you have a bigger image?

ice_rootbeer

I think it's big enough. :P

[QUOTE="ice_rootbeer"]

Yeah, that's it. Do you have a bigger image?

Dystopian-X

I think it's big enough. :P

Yeah, that's it. Do you have a bigger image?

ice_rootbeer

As for me, I still say the most fascinating thing is simply Earth. I love Biology though, so it intrigues me. :)

Probably the picture from the Hubble space telescope.

[QUOTE="ice_rootbeer"]

Do you have that website where they compare the largest star in our galaxy to other stuff, like Earth and the Sun? Just wondering. ;)

Dystopian-X

Hmm not sure which site. But sounds similar to this.

Wow. I didn't think the size of our sun was nothing but a pint size miget compared to the other suns. VY Canis Majoris must be the size of a galaxy....

tocool340

Speaking of pint sized. Pale Blue Dot:

Earth as seen from the edge of the solar system.

Hubble's Ultra Deep Field.

Dystopian-X

this

its not the prettiest, nor the most detailed, but it just shows the near-infinite potential for whats out there. I mean, you see that, and its not even a fraction of whats out htere, and you just HAVE to assume there is some sort of life, be it plant or animal, out there. I know space is, well, mostly empty space, but looking at that you just cant help but feel comfortable.

The pic below is of two Galaxies merging, which will take millions of years. A suprising thing is that because a lot of a Galaxy is empty space the odds of two suns colliding is remote.

This, even though I don't think it exists. :P

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Someone tells these guys to stop tailgating us.

Our solar system, viewed from WAY back.

It's amazing our tiny sun's gravity attracts such a huge amount of debris.

[QUOTE="Dystopian-X"]

Hubble's Ultra Deep Field.

mrbojangles25

this

its not the prettiest, nor the most detailed, but it just shows the near-infinite potential for whats out there. I mean, you see that, and its not even a fraction of whats out htere, and you just HAVE to assume there is some sort of life, be it plant or animal, out there. I know space is, well, mostly empty space, but looking at that you just cant help but feel comfortable.

Seriously, that's barely scratching the surface of the vast scope of things, yet many humans are still arrogant to think we're the only civilization lucky enough to have evolved in the cosmos... If even just ONE star in every 10 galaxies had a planet near it capable of supporting life, that'd still bethousands of civilizations out there. Not that will ever get to meet any of them, but perhaps that's how God wanted it to be.

1. Comets

2. Gas

3. God - I know you're out there, big guy! :)