This is one of the reasons I love astronomy

[ohio_eric]

This is M81 a spiral galaxy in Ursa Major. You can see it in binoculars if you know what you're looking for and where to look. This is similar to how our galaxy would look from 12 million light years away.

All the facts and data are cool but it sure is pretty to look at.

 

[MF_Kitten]

awe, i´ve always loved this stuff too... i saw a mathematically programmed 3d animated supernova... it was pretty sweet

also, i´ve always loved solar and lunar eclipses, and meteors and shooting stars, and once, you could see mars really clearly on the sky as a large red-ish dot

i read alot about astronomy and stuff as a kid, too... fascinating stuff!

 

[Grom]

Astronomy is one of my passions as well. I freakin' love to gaze at the immensity and feel like I may not be the only soul doing so in the Universe.

 

[Kagami]

I love space, I'm a huge space-geek, lol.

 

[Naren]

That is one of the reasons I love astronomy as well. I ever considered majoring in it for a short period of time, but my math skills aren't that great and I probably wouldn't be too good doing an astronomy-related job... but the studying it in college would be fun (I only took 2-3 astronomy classes in college as it is).

 

[Bartok]

Atmospheric Optics
This site has some cool pictures/science. All right here on Earth too So not really Astronomy, but still pretty.

 

[Brett89]

Sorry if the picture is too big. This is one of my favorites:

 

[Zepp88]

The universe is amazing, and those pictures are breaktaking.

One of my favorites is Andromeda! The red is awesome looking

 

[Azyiu]

Beauty like this is exactly why I took Astronomy when I was in college.