Meet Laniakea, Our Home Supercluster
Our cosmic address extends well beyond Earth, past the Milky Way and toward the farthest reaches of the universe. But now astronomers are adding another line: the Laniakea Supercluster, which takes its name from the Hawaiin term “lani” meaning heaven and “akea” meaning spacious or immeasurable.
And the name is true to its meaning. The supercluster extends more than 500 million light-years and contains the mass of 100 quadrillion Suns in 100,000 large galaxies. This research is the first to trace our local supercluster on such a large scale.
Read more here.
Eyes. Taking in what is likely their first view of the outside world. En route to slaughter. RIP beautiful babies.
Photos taken by Carole Iritz for Toronto Pig Save.
(Source: treekisser-blog)
The Shaman strides across the northern plains, conducting the power of the storm that is coming to replenish the earth.
(Source: diaryofprologue, via you-are-the-universe)
396 photos merged into one image using the lighten blending mode in photoshop. I think this one pretty much covers the colour spectrum of sunsets, lacking only the darker reds. I can’t get enough of this technique!
(Source: matt-molloy, via itsalmostradical)