Could become a nice thread with cool pics, if you and others would participate. Astronomy, yep, i will search some cool pics for you. Post all things you love about nature and what have nothing to do with humans: landscapes, sunrises, animals, outer space - whatever.
Outer Space Hubble Ultra Deep Field Zoom of a part of the Deep Field Hubble Ultra Deep Field The farest we can see, with our stoneage technology. This high-resolution image of the HUDF includes galaxies of various ages, sizes, shapes, and colors. The smallest, reddest galaxies, of which there are approximately 10,000, are some of the most distant galaxies to have been imaged by an optical telescope, probably existing shortly after the Big Bang. The image contains an estimated 10,000 galaxies. Are we alone in space ? If you know that every star in our night sky is one sun. If you know that every sun is a starsystem, means every star is surrounded by at least 5 planets. (Did you know that planets exist, with over 5 moons. Did you know that life could also exist on moons? Did you know that so called planets exist, which do not drive around a star ?) If you know that every planet have at least 1 moon. If you know that our galaxy, the milky way, have about 200 billion of starsystems. If you know that there are over 100 billion galaxies in the universe, some of them far bigger than our milky way galaxy. If you know that on our planet earth, we have found life that is based on metals or lives in heat or cold we could have never imagined. Would you then still think, that we are alone ? Imagine the sahara dessert in north africa, every sandcorn is one galaxy, now you can probably a little bit understand how huge the universe is. I belief that out there is everywhere life, in the strangest forms, man could never imagine, because life is just energy and it will always find its way. We will know after death. http://static.flabber.net/files/scale-of-the-universe-2.swf
some of our neighbour planets Saturn Jupiter moon and earth solarsystem http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/image/saturn.html
http://hubblesite.org/gallery/album/galaxy I love that beautiful coloured galaxies. nebulae. Amazing.