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vampireadamooc:

annachibi:

cosmicfunnies:

Better late than never!

Here’s a comic about our favorite icy moon, Enceladus!

http://www.space.com/20543-enceladus-saturn-s-tiny-shiny-moon.html

(okay but Enceladus should probably be depicted as a male because the mythological character it’s named after is male, just sayin)

Enceladus was also a Giant. The tiniest of the moons of Saturn is named after a Giant. 

It’s just that peculiar astronomers sense of humor coming out again. 

A rather dumb giant at that. He thought he could go toe-to-toe with the goddess of war Athena. She killed him by running him over with her chariot during the Gigantomachy.

This adorable comic about a moon, and somebody has to jump on with ‘Um actually Enceladus is a guy’s name so…’

Shut up.

quantumspork:

skunkbear:

Here’s the orbital period of our solar system’s 8 major planets (how long it takes each to travel around the sun). Their size is to scale and their speed is accurate relative to Earth’s. The repetition of each GIF is proportional to their orbital period. Mercury takes less than 3 months to zoom around Sol, Neptune takes nearly 165 years.  

fuck this gifset do you know how long i sat here waiting for fucking neptune to drag its lazy ass into the frame