This mosaic image from the NASA/ESA/ASI Cassini-Huygens spacecraft is centered at 9 degrees north latitude, 254 degrees west longitude. The image was acquired at a distance of about 57,800 km from Rhea.
Image credit: NASA/JPL
This image is beautiful, and closer to my heart because I have done a field study at NRAO. Such an incredible experience!
The W50 supernova remnant in radio (green) against the infrared background of stars and dust (red).
Credit: NRAO/AUI/NSF, K. Golap, M. Goss; NASA’s Wide Field Survey Explorer (WISE).
math problem: *begins with “we know that..”*
me: WE dont know SHIT
Starry Greetings!
Planet X is hosting a summer class! (You’ll see more of him in September)
This week’s topic: Pulsars
https://www.space.com/32661-pulsars.html
https://www.universetoday.com/25376/pulsars/
NGC 7129 - Reflection Nebula: 3000LY Away
The Space Station Transits Our Sun via NASA https://ift.tt/2RFTo9W
Venus and the Triply Ultraviolet Sun : An unusual type of solar eclipse occurred in 2012. Usually it is the Earth’s Moon that eclipses the Sun. That year, most unusually, the planet Venus took a turn. Like a solar eclipse by the Moon, the phase of Venus became a continually thinner crescent as Venus became increasingly better aligned with the Sun. Eventually the alignment became perfect and the phase of Venus dropped to zero. The dark spot of Venus crossed our parent star. The situation could technically be labeled a Venusian annular eclipse with an extraordinarily large ring of fire. Pictured here during the occultation, the Sun was imaged in three colors of ultraviolet light by the Earth-orbiting Solar Dynamics Observatory, with the dark region toward the right corresponding to a coronal hole. Hours later, as Venus continued in its orbit, a slight crescent phase appeared again. The next Venusian transit across the Sun will occur in 2117. via NASA
Comet Jacques Piercing the Heart and Soul Nebulae
Ripples in the rings of Saturn caused by the orbit of small moons (Pandora, Pan, Prometheus, Atlas, Daphnis, etc.)
To see the animation click here
Image credit: NASA/JPL/Cassini & Planetary Ring Image of the Day
55 Nights with Saturn