We wouldn’t have guessed it by looking at these images. Charles Morgan Smith’s photographic series Emissio appear to be nebulae in intergalactic space, while they are really iridescent oil spills on road surfaces, with the pictures formed using conventions of Hubble images. Smith’s intention is for the photos to show the relationship between the everyday and the banal. It’s a success.

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Google Earth has taken things to new heights. Now mere earthlings can view a 3D Google Moon and Google Mars. Thanks to old photos and satellite shots, we can explore 360 degree views of these strange landscapes from the comfort of home. And the best part? You can get a tour with narration by Bill Nye the Science Guy.

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Phil Plait’s Bad Astronomy blog on Slate never fails to fascinate, and one of his recent posts really jumped out at me. Blame it on the picture that came with it, showing a malevolent-looking 1,250-mile wide behemoth hurricane on Saturn taken by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft.

It’s 20 times larger than the average hurricane eye on Earth, and spins four times faster. Sure, it’s a false-color picture, but Plait’s wisecrack in the picture caption (‘Looks like Saturn stayed up a bit too late last night’) still seems like an massive understatement.

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This incredible video was made by NASA and shows three years of the sun in just three minutes. Each day is captured in two images, and throughout this video, you can see how the sun’s activity has increased in just three years. The video also shows interesting solar phenomena including two partial eclipses of the sun by the moon, two roll maneuvers, the largest flare of this solar cycle, comet Lovejoy, and the transit of Venus.

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Ebay is a strange, strange place — it essentially hosts a bunch of stuff that people have and want to get rid of. Recently I’ve become quite fascinated with looking at its listings of space toys from before 1970. These are future-themed toys from the past, so it makes so much sense to actually see these in the present.

And yet I can’t imagine any actual kids from today actually playing with any of these toys. Maybe just overgrown adult-sized kids. Here are some of the toys: they are odd and funky all at once.

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NASA may have an outstanding space program, but they’re not too bad in the design department either. During the 1960s, hundreds of manuals, guidebooks, covers, and posters were created to promote NASA and their events. The posters are filled with vintage typography, classy artwork, and retro colors. The covers are set to be auctioned off at the 2013 April 18 Space Exploration Signature Auction

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Ground control to Major Tom… but first, you need a space helmet. Etsy seller Jenn Mann has created a LED-lined acrylic space helmet that lights up in 16 different colors. The visor opens up and closes all the way to the back if you ever feel the urge to make direct contact with aliens or Earthlings. The estimated wait, if you place an order, is 4-6 weeks. Could potentially be useful.

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Colonel Chris Hadfield is a Canadian astronaut who uses social media in a very unique way. Living aboard the ISS, Colonel Hadfield photographs images of the Earth from space and tweets them every day from thousands of miles above our little blue planet. You can follow his photographic space adventures on his Tumblr and Facebook too. [via Feature Shoot]

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NASA recently released a picture which shows variations in the moon’s gravity field measured by its Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) over three months in 2012. The red zones indicate mass excesses, the blue bits mean mass deficiencies, but really, what we get from looking at this image is is that the moon’s kind of a trippy place to go.

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The incredibly talented Fabian Oefner has been featured on Lost At E Minor not just once, but twice, and for good reason: the Swiss artist is that good. Which means more of his works have caught our eye. We can’t even begin to rave about how he blew the astronomic proportions out of tacky fiberglass lamps to create illusionary giant nebulae in his Outer Space in Studio series by using long exposure shots multiplied in Photoshop. Wow.

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It boggles the mind sometimes to think about how beautiful the world is. Made possible with data captured in April and October 2012, this composite image from a NASA and National Oceanic and Atmospheric satellite shows us just how great we humans can be when what we do co-exists with nature in the form of ‘city lights, gas flares, auroras, wildfires and reflected moonlight’ mapped as magnificent lights across the United States.

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Wether intentional or not, the layout and design of these cities makes for an interesting aerial view. Some create intricate patters and shapes, while others form recognizable imagery. Take a look for yourself and see what you make out of these photographs.

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I was blown away by this project! 100,000 Stars is an interactive visualization of the stellar neighborhood created for the Google Chrome web browser. It shows the location of 119,617 nearby stars. Zooming in reveals 87 individually identified stars and our solar system. So fascinating, I was there ‘travelling’ for a long time.

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Whether the universe is finite or infinite, surely it has room for more than one galaxy to exist in the same space at the same time. Which is exactly what this picture — assembled from three sets of pictures taken in 2002 using blue, orange and near-infrared filters — of two colliding galaxies named The Mice — in the Coma Berenices constellation 300 million light years away shows us.

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LA-based blogger extraordinaire/graphic designer Bobby Solomon’s site The Fox is Black is pretty much my morning paper. A balanced survey of design, typography, architecture, music and more, Bobby and his editorial team also publish a few regular columns, including the Space Suit of the Week. This collection of interstellar fashion concepts takes you to that soothingly nostalgic place at the intersection of childhood wonder and great design.

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This hi-res collection of photographs of the Earth’s cities at night was captured far above the Earth itself. Filmed from the International Space Station, these breath-taking images were shot at over 28,000 kilometres per hour. These photographs of large cities such as Istanbul, Beijing, Melbourne, Montreal, and London are currently held at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in the astronaut photography archive.

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This is by far the coolest bookshelf that I’ve ever seen. Machine Project has found a way to solve the problem of having furniture invade too much space by making it retract in to the ground. Aside from the cool aesthetics and fun factor of being able to pull your bookshelves up and down at will, this thought process can be reapplied to many items that take up too much unnecessary space. Foldable dishwashers, anyone?

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If you’ve ever dreamed of being an astronaut or flying into the sunset (literally), we may have found the product for you. US surplus space suits are for sale, but unfortunately we’re a couple of decades too late, evident by the fact that postage in this ad costs just 75c. With 8 zippers, inside pockets, and at a weight of 7 pounds, we think the suit is quite a steal for just $7.95. Apparently originally costing $180 a piece, we’re a little concerned about the genuineness of the sentence “absolutely brand new”. Mmmm, astronaut sweat.

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This video taken from the International Space Station is incredible. I feel pretty certain that if I was ever an Internet mogul or some sort of uber-rich entrepreneur, I would waste all my cash on a trip to see this in person. I am not sure what significant work, if any, that I would accomplish when I arrived. But I am sure that staring out the window would be enough to keep me busy for my time there. I guess this video will just have to do for now.

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Gather round children, we have an exciting science lesson for you today. How big is big? How small is small? Everything is relative, and this website is about to show you about the scale of the world around you, including things you can see and those you can’t. A simple flash infographic which will break down the size of uber crazy complicated scientific things like light, space, waves, droplets, membranes, landmass, nebulas and eventually, galaxies. So how big  is the universe? Find out here. The instructions are simple: Scroll in to get micro, minor and miniscule. Scroll out to get macro, major and mammoth.

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