The distances involved even in near space are phenomenally large.

Even traveling at the speed of light. 💫

“To make this journey, we’ll need imagination, but imagination alone is not enough, because the reality of nature is far more wondrous than anything we can imagine.”

These are just a few of the beautiful visual effects from Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey

Episode 8: Sisters of the Sun, Cosmos: A SpaceTime Odyssey

Imagine how it would look if the Orion nebula is only four light years away - the distance the nearest star is to us, instead of 1,300 light years. It would be so bright that we wouldn’t be aware of the dark sky. We wouldn’t see other stars. The whole world would be the Orion nebula and the sun.

-The Universe 2x14: Nebulas

So uh… I love the series Cosmos. I love Neil deGrasse Tyson. What better way then to make a short crappy comic about it. I used brushes I made then some made by kyletwebster and jigokuen!  HAPPY NEW EPISODE OF COSMOS DAY!!! GO WATCH IT ON HULU OR TV! 

Neil deGrasse Tyson, from “The Immortals” episode of Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey.

Neil deGrasse Tyson - Cosmos (via lifeintrance)

Neil deGrasse Tyson - Cosmos: ASTO "The Lost Worlds of Planet Earth" (via kenobi-wan-obi)

Neil deGrasse Tyson is not impressed with all your sexism.

In anticipation of Neil deGrasse Tyson leading yet another episode of Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey, I decided to create a piece of fan art. I went for a comic book style this time, and I couldn’t resist placing the focus on Clair Patterson’s sad assistant.

The animated images are stills taken from the sneak peak of tonight’s episode—Episode Seven: A Clean Room.

This episode was really worth watching if you haven't seen it

Spoiler alert: big oil has been fucking people over for longer than I've been alive

Richard Gere in Neil deGrasse Tyson’s ‘Cosmos’ April 20th Preview

Host Neil deGrasse Tyson tells the heroic story of  scientist Clair Patterson (guest voice Richard Gere) whose heroic search for the truth shows how a single person can change the world without ever committing a single act of destruction or violence in the all-new “The Clean Room” …

http://starsentertainment.com/5817/cosmos-april-20-preview/

Spoiler Alert: Big Oil was the bad guy (worth a watch)

Some claim that Evolution is just a theory, as if it were merely an opinion.