You’ve probably heard that North Korea’s attempt at a rocket program failed today. Rocket science is hard.
In other aeronautics news, there are other worlds we’re seeing up close.
There’s nothing phony about any of those images; that’s what space is like. Sander van den Berg of the Netherlands downloaded all of the images from NASA’s websites for the Cassini and Voyager missions, stitched them together and added the music.
It’s a comforting video that, for some reason, came in somewhat handy after I read this story.