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What do you call an exoplanet with rings?
Some close ups of the eclipse as the Earth casts a shadow over the moon's surface... đź” #astronomy #astro #eclipse #moon
My 2-panel mosaic of Wolf-Rayet 134 and its surrounding nebulosity. Each panel has about 100 images, 27.5 hrs per panel, roughly 55.5 hrs of integration. High-resolution: app.astrobin.com/i/fvf2rm #astrophotography #astronomy #naturephotography #nature #longexposure #eastcoastkin #photography
🔠Eclipse Pair Image Credit & Copyright: Gwenaël Blanck ap260829
NASA’s Artemis II Crew Receives Congressional Space Medal of Honor — From left to right: NASA astronauts Victor Glover and Christina Koch, CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Jeremy Hansen, and NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman receive the Congressional Space Medal of Hono
NASA Awards First Prize in Phase 2 of Agency’s LunaRecycle Challenge — NASA named a team from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) as the first prize winner for Phase 2 of the agency’s LunaRecycle
President Honors NASA’s Artemis II Crew with Highest US Space Award — President Donald J. Trump awarded NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch, and CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Jeremy Hansen with the Congressional Space Medal of Honor F
President Trump Signs Executive Order to Create US Space Academy — To strengthen the nation’s space workforce and develop the next generation of space leaders, President Donald J. Trump signed an Executive Order on Friday to establish the nation’s first U.S. Space Ac
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Theory-Defying Exoplanet Atmospheres Force a Rethink of Theorieshttps://atlas.whatip.xyz/post.php?slug=theory-defying-exoplanet-atmospheres-force-a-rethink-of-theories<p>The discovery of lava worlds with atmospheres is challenging our theories of how atmospheres escape#atmospheres #exoplanet #...
JWST detected the signature of water while the rocky exoplanet GJ 486 b crossed its star, raising hopes of a steam-rich atmosphere just 26 light-years away. But cool patches on the star can imitate exactly the same signal—and follow-up observations now suggest the planet is probably airless.https://...
Webb’s observations will be used to better understand the cycle of star formation and how it plays out across galaxies; Arp 263, with its disturbed disc of gas and its chaotic star formation, presents a unique and fascinating target for these investigations.
The brightest star with its long diffraction spikes created by the telescope’s optics, is actually not part of this galaxy. It sits in the foreground within our own galaxy.
In the infrared, dust spread throughout the galaxy glows with the light, here shown in red, emitted by complex molecules; around the star-forming regions we also see, in blue colors, hydrogen gas, ionized by starlight and emitting its own light in turn.
In the murky still waters of Exoplanet 62436 floats the Duocrus. Scientists are still studying this creature to find out exactly what it eats, how it reproduces and where it sleeps. But we know that the numerous spots in the centre are light sensitive and the legs interlock with other Duocrus to mak...
This plant is floating innocently through space. While it survives on minerals, it looks to be opening their jaws, with a little spark in the middle to lure in oblivious prey. But it’s all just this photograph, and the angle, and a trick of the light of the nearby sun. This is just a space plant, fl...
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On this day, we are thankful for the little white dot just below Saturn's rings. That's us! (You look great, btw,.) Seen from a billion miles away, Earth shines bright. Happy Thanksgiving, friends. We're glad you're here. https://t.co/MhLGIldVt4
The misconception that there is no sound in space originates because most space is a ~vacuum, providing no way for sound waves to travel. A galaxy cluster has so much gas that we've picked up actual sound. Here it's amplified, and mixed with other data, to hear a black hole! https://t.co/RobcZs7F9e