Jupiter And Ganymede In Near – UV And Blue, Jointly Captured By Juno Aircraft, Remastered By Judy Schmidt

This is Rosette Nebula — which got its nickname from its close resemblance to a flower in bloom. It's the Perseus Arm of the galaxy, about a 130 light-years-wide nebula that hosts a club of more than 10,000 young stars.

Image Credit: CalTech/Palomar

Simulation Credit: MarsWalkers

Mars, snapped by Hubble 2018

The "ice giants" Uranus and Neptune appear to glow red-orange in new photos taken using Hawaii's Keck Observatory. The pictures show Uranus' rings and several moons, as well as Neptune's largest moon, Triton.

 credits : livescience.com

Happy Solstice 2020!

The evening began with a beautiful sunset:

...though pretty clouds meant Jupiter and Saturn's closest dance was a little fuzzy:

They'd traded places and moved much closer than on Saturday:

This longer Saturday exposure shows Saturn's biggest moon, Titan (arrow), and all four of Jupiter's Galilean moons:

...and here's Jupiter's moons plus Titan (arrow; another arrow points out Amalthea hugging its parent world) tonight:

Happy Great Conjunction Day!

Barred Spiral Galaxy NGC 1300 

Image Credit: Hubble Heritage Team,ESA, NASA

Utopia on Mars Image Credit: NASA, The Viking Project, M. Dale-Bannister (Washington University)

Explanation: Expansive Utopia Planitia on Mars is strewn with rocks and boulders in this 1976 image. Constructed from the Viking 2 lander's color and black and white image data, the scene approximates the appearance of the high northern martian plain to the human eye - NASA

Hubble sees a more holistic view of the Butterfly Nebula or NGC 6302

Hubble was recently retrained on NGC 6302, known as the "Butterfly Nebula," to observe it across a more complete spectrum of light, from near-ultraviolet to near-infrared, helping researchers better understand the mechanics at work in its technicolor "wings" of gas. The "wings" of NGC 6302 are regions of gas heated to more than 36,000 degrees Fahrenheit that are tearing across space at more than 600,000 miles an hour. NGC 6302 lies between 2,500 and 3,800 light-years away in the constellation Scorpius.

Saturn is nestling close to Jupiter this week, in an event known as the Great Conjunction that occurs regularly, aligning these two gas giants every twenty years or so. Skywatchers can catch this once in a decades cosmic marriage in the early predawn hours.

Photo Credit : Techlife

IC 1805 – The Heart Nebula, taken on September the 11th, 2019

Image Credit & Copyright : Bray Falls

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