Space photos, drawings, artists conceptions and all things space related

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http://i.imgur.com/0mmwSrm.jpg

Europa

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http://i.imgur.com/Wd9E20b.jpg

Ganymede

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http://i.imgur.com/gCNOFNd.jpg

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http://i.imgur.com/r1GjYJE.jpg

Venus

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http://i.imgur.com/tPsmwuy.jpg


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g25G1M4EXrQ

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http://i.imgur.com/GQLpNzK.jpg

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Andromeda Galaxy

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Sunset on Mars. Real atmosphere colors, haze


http://i.imgur.com/vvbB0YP.jpg

[Teh One Who Knocks]

http://i.imgur.com/r9alqcS.jpg

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First photographed spacewalk, Alexei Leonov, 1965



http://i.imgur.com/cD93JRV.jpg

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The Eagle Nebula (this thing is huge) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eagle_Nebula



http://i.imgur.com/mt8sywF.jpg

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It's funny how ingrained certain colors have become for planets. Because of school, encyclopedias and pictures from the past Mercury is always red, Venus is green, Earth is blue and so on.

On this chart of actual pictures, Mercury is the top left....




http://i.imgur.com/ioPegDM.png

[PorkChopSandwiches]

http://i.imgur.com/flbMFv2.jpg

[DemonGeminiX]

Sometimes it feels so unfair to be living today. We see evidence of all these wondrous things, we know they exist, yet we'll never live to see them up close, we'll never get to travel out to where they are. We can only leave what we know to the future generations so that they can advance and improve things and they can get out to where we'll never be able to go.

I don't believe in reincarnation, but if I did, I'd want to be reborn in that future technological age where the human race has mastered travel in the cosmos.

[Hugh_Janus]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEheh1BH34Q

[DemonGeminiX]

You should watch the companion video "star size comparison hd top 10 comments". He has some pretty cool junk in there.

[Teh One Who Knocks]

Sometimes it feels so unfair to be living today. We see evidence of all these wondrous things, we know they exist, yet we'll never live to see them up close, we'll never get to travel out to where they are. We can only leave what we know to the future generations so that they can advance and improve things and they can get out to where we'll never be able to go.

I don't believe in reincarnation, but if I did, I'd want to be reborn in that future technological age where the human race has mastered travel in the cosmos.

:+1:

[Teh One Who Knocks]

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Pluto


http://i.imgur.com/nDEGQd8.png

Charon, one of Pluto's moons

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http://i.imgur.com/flbMFv2.jpg

That's a great comparison graphic :thumbsup:

[deebakes]

what are the extra 3 items on the right? :-k

[DemonGeminiX]

Probably the dwarf planets found in the Kuiper belt where Pluto is located (Eris, Makemake, and Haumea). Although not including Ceres in between Mars and Jupiter makes no sense if they're including the other dwarfs.

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and also only the earths moon :hand:

[DemonGeminiX]

That's true, they only included Earth's moon, but Jupiter's Ganymede and Saturn's Titan are both larger than Mercury, and Pluto's Charon is large enough to be included (scientist's are still arguing whether or not to reclassify Charon as a dwarf planet, and it's been argued for years that Pluto and Charon form a binary planetary system), so why not include them in the picture? It doesn't make any logical sense to leave them all out.

[deebakes]

:obama:

[DemonGeminiX]

There are actually 7 moons in the solar system that are larger than Pluto, including Ganymede and Titan. Those larger than Pluto but smaller than Mercury include our moon and also Jupiter's Callisto, Io, and Europa, and Neptune's Triton... so those 4 should probably be in the picture too.

[Teh One Who Knocks]

That's true, they only included Earth's moon, but Jupiter's Ganymede and Saturn's Titan are both larger than Mercury, and Pluto's Charon is large enough to be included (scientist's are still arguing whether or not to reclassify Charon as a dwarf planet, and it's been argued for years that Pluto and Charon form a binary planetary system), so why not include them in the picture? It doesn't make any logical sense to leave them all out.

I would assume they included only our moon because it's something that everyone is familiar with and we see it every night.

[DemonGeminiX]

[-(

That's discrimination against other moons of the solar system. What are you going to do next? Make them sit at the back of the bus?

[Hal-9000]

I would assume they included only our moon because it's something that everyone is familiar with and we see it every night.

and showing every moon of various sizes would be confusing when compared to some of the planets...it's the size thing. They'd have to label each entry

[DemonGeminiX]

https://i.imgur.com/kgLPgF9.jpg


Titania is Uranus' largest moon.

[DemonGeminiX]

http://41.media.tumblr.com/c35208f206d00970c2aa0a04a028538d/tumblr_mx5yzrlqKy1qcd77mo1_1280.jpg

The largest ones. It's definitely not exhaustive considering both Jupiter and Saturn have greater than 60 each.

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Yep some of those moons are huge....."that's not a moon" :shock:


In Porky's graphic it shows how big Saturn is when compared to Jupiter. Growing up I always envisioned Jupiter as dwarfing every other planet...which it pretty much does except in Saturn's case.

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interesting fun fact: Uranus comes before Neptune :tup:

[Teh One Who Knocks]

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Enceladus

[DemonGeminiX]

That would be a very cool view to see in person.

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http://i.imgur.com/Qa5iX3R.jpg

[PorkChopSandwiches]

Amazing

[PorkChopSandwiches]

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Earth as seen from the new Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR). The image is the first to show the entire sunlit side of the Earth since astronauts on the Apollo 17 mission captured one of the most famous photographs ever taken in 1972. The photo is unstitched, unlike "full disk" weather satellite photos.

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I find photos like the one above a little unsettling when you can see where your city is :oops:

*waves at Porky*

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Another thing that becomes apparent when they don't stitch photos is just how much of the Earth is covered in water and where the actual land masses sit. We're quite high up on the planet comparative to flat maps that show continents spread out horizontally in an even distribution from top to bottom.

[DemonGeminiX]

Is that Deep Space Climate Observatory below the equator?

:-k

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<blockquote class="imgur-embed-pub" lang="en" data-id="a/9QLtD"><a href="//imgur.com/a/9QLtD">Working at the ISS must be one of the most interesting jobs in the World</a></blockquote><script async src="//s.imgur.com/min/embed.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

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Space Shuttle viewed from the ISS



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Another view of the Northern Lights from the ISS




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Vanity shot of the ISS





http://i.imgur.com/q6AG5fy.jpg

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[Goofy]

<blockquote class="imgur-embed-pub" lang="en" data-id="a/9QLtD"><a href="//imgur.com/a/9QLtD">Working at the ISS must be one of the most interesting jobs in the World</a></blockquote><script async src="//s.imgur.com/min/embed.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Those pics are awesome :tup:

[PorkChopSandwiches]

Yeah they are

[Teh One Who Knocks]

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The ghost of a dying star — the Southern Owl Nebula

http://astronomynow.com/2015/08/05/the-ghost-of-a-dying-star/

[Goofy]

http://i.imgur.com/WXLNXWC.jpg

The ghost of a dying star — the Southern Owl Nebula

http://astronomynow.com/2015/08/05/the-ghost-of-a-dying-star/

I'm sure i saw that on Star Trek......... think it's some kind of alien being :-k

[PorkChopSandwiches]

http://i.imgur.com/G03oUW3.jpg

[Hal-9000]

very cool


one light year is this many miles - 5,878,499,810,000 ....so the closest maybe planet is 20 x 5,878,499,810,000 miles away.

[PorkChopSandwiches]

I could probably jog there

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ya me too...I'd have to cut down my daily pull ups to 49 tho

[Goofy]

very cool


one light year is this many miles - 5,878,499,810,000 ....so the closest maybe planet is 20 x 5,878,499,810,000 miles away.


I could probably jog there


ya me too...I'd have to cut down my daily pull ups to 49 tho

Fuck that, i'll get the bus :thumbsup:

[Goofy]

I'm gonna go watch "Gravity" again :lol:

[PorkChopSandwiches]

http://i.imgur.com/1JkfTed.jpg

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Astrophotographer Stefan Muckenhuber sent in a photo of galaxies M81 (left) and M82, obtained in mid-2015 from Tirol, Austria. M81 (AKA Bode’s Galaxy), a spiral galaxy, lies about 12 million light-years away from Earth in the constellation of Ursa Major. M82 is also known as the Cigar Galaxy. Muckenhuber writes in an email message to Space.com: “I took this picture from a quite dark spot in … Tirol. I collected 16 hours of data and it also took me about 20 hours of processing until I was satisfied with the result. The exposure of 16 hours was necessary to bring out the faint Integrated Flux Nebula (IFN) … “ appearing as the gray dust in the image. He notes the IFN, which lies closer to us than the two galaxies, is made visible by the glow of stars in our Milky Way.

[Teh One Who Knocks]

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Messier 63 galaxy lies about 27 million light-years from Earth in the small, northern constellation of Canes Venatici (the Hunting Dogs). The galaxy belongs to the M51 Group, in which Messier 51 shines brightest of the galaxies in that group. The spiral arms of the Messier 63 resemble a sunflower, giving rise to the nickname "Sunflower Galaxy." Pierre Mechain discovered it in 1779, and the galaxy made it into Messier’s catalogue as the 63rd object. Image released Sept. 7, 2015.

[DemonGeminiX]

Very cool. :thumbsup:

[HyperV12]

https://www.flickr.com/photos/projectapolloarchive/albums/with/72157658601662068

Some nice candids of the astronauts in there too.

[Teh One Who Knocks]

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New photos of Saturn's moon Enceladus as taken from Cassini

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Appears to be made of milk :-s

[Hugh_Janus]

Appears to be made of milk :-s

it's water ice with a water mantle-y bit

fucking sky at night rocks

[Teh One Who Knocks]

http://img246.imagevenue.com/loc468/th_693821202_tduid10128_saturn5allclean2_122_468lo .jpg (http://img246.imagevenue.com/img.php?image=693821202_tduid10128_saturn5allclean 2_122_468lo.jpg)


CLICKY

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[HyperV12]

Patricia?

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Patricia?

Yes :thumbsup:

[HyperV12]

http://www.imagescream.com/images/awesomethepillarsofcreati.jpg

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This infrared image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows the centre of the Milky Way, 27 000 light-years away from Earth. Using the infrared capabilities of Hubble, astronomers were able to peer through the dust which normally obscures the view of this interesting region. At the centre of this nuclear star cluster — and also in the centre of this image — the Milky Way’s supermassive black hole is located.
Credit: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA) Acknowledgment: NASA, ESA, T. Do and A. Ghez (UCLA), and V. Bajaj (STScI)

[DemonGeminiX]

I have a new desktop background. Thanks, Lance.

[Teh One Who Knocks]

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Simulated View from Europa's Surface (Artist's Concept)

[PorkChopSandwiches]

This was taken back in 2006 as the spacecraft drifted into the shadow of Saturn. The sun is hidden directly behind the planet. Earth also appears as a small dot near the upper left side of the brightest rings.


http://i.imgur.com/XNv0xLg.jpg


Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there--on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.

[PorkChopSandwiches]

http://i.imgur.com/L2x6T47.jpg

[Teh One Who Knocks]

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This image provided by European Southern Observatory, taken by the MUSE instrument, mounted on ESO's Very Large Telescope and shows the region R44 within the Carina Nebula, 7500 light-years away. Scientists say these new images appear to be pillars of destruction, in which massive new stars destroy the clouds of gas from which they were born. (European Southern Observatory via AP)

[deebakes]

:uwank:

[Teh One Who Knocks]

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This Cassini image features a density wave in Saturn's A ring (at left) that lies around 134,500 km from Saturn. Density waves are accumulations of particles at certain distances from the planet. This feature is filled with clumpy perturbations, which researchers informally refer to as "straw." The wave itself is created by the gravity of the moons Janus and Epimetheus, which share the same orbit around Saturn. Elsewhere, the scene is dominated by "wakes" from a recent pass of the ring moon Pan.
Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute

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A photograph from every non-terrestrial surface visited by a man made robot

[Hugh_Janus]

when the hell did titan get landed on?

[Teh One Who Knocks]

when the hell did titan get landed on?

2005:


In 2005, an alien probe flew through the hazy and cold atmosphere of Titan, the largest moon of Saturn, and landed on the world's surface.

That spacecraft — named the Huygens probe — was sent from Earth by the European Space Agency along with the Cassini spacecraft to help humanity learn more about Saturn and its 53 known moons.

Thanks to a new video released by NASA, you can relive the Huygens' descent to Titan's surface 12 years after it actually landed.

The video shows actual footage from the spacecraft's point of view as it passed through the hazy layers of Titan's atmosphere, spotted "drainage canals" that suggest rivers of liquid methane run on the moon and gently set down on the surface, NASA said.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msiLWxDayuA


On Jan. 14, 2005, ESA's Huygens probe made its descent to the surface of Saturn's hazy moon, Titan. Carried to Saturn by NASA's Cassini spacecraft, Huygens made the most distant landing ever on another world, and the only landing on a body in the outer solar system. This video uses actual images taken by the probe during its two-and-a-half hour fall under its parachutes.

Huygens was a signature achievement of the international Cassini-Huygens mission, which will conclude on Sept. 15, 2017, when Cassini plunges into Saturn's atmosphere.

[Hugh_Janus]

8-)

[Teh One Who Knocks]

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This stereo image from Cassini offers 3D views of Saturn's weird moon Pan, during a final closeup by the NASA spacecraft on March 7, 2017. If you have red-blue anaglyph glasses, the images will appear 3D.
Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute

[Muddy]

http://i.imgur.com/L2x6T47.jpg

:lol: wtf man..

[Muddy]

http://i.imgur.com/8iEDCZj.jpg

A photograph from every non-terrestrial surface visited by a man made robot

That blue sky on Mars looks promising..

[Teh One Who Knocks]

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Stunning Supernova Remnant in the Large Magellanic Cloud - Hubble Zoom-In Video
By Steve Spaleta | March 30, 2017 12:00pm ET

The Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) is a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way and hosts the remnant of a Type Ia supernova explosion, named N103B. Hubble Space Telescope imagery was used to create this zoom-in video of the remnant..

[Teh One Who Knocks]

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NASA’s Cassini spacecraft captured this shot of the Saturn moon Enceladus on March 29, 2017, from a distance of about 110,000 miles (180,000 kilometers). Image scale is 0.6 miles (1 km) per pixel.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute

[Teh One Who Knocks]

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A stunning new view of Saturn's largest moon, Titan, captures beautiful layers of bluish-yellow haze in the moon's atmosphere.

The image was taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on March 31, 2005. The photo shows individual layers of haze in the upper atmosphere of Titan — the second-largest moon in the solar system and the only moon known to have clouds and a dense atmosphere.

[Hal-9000]

http://i.imgur.com/mRESae3.jpg

This moon is a freak show.

[Teh One Who Knocks]

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Meet Simeis 147, a tangled heap of cosmic clouds also known as the Spaghetti Nebula. Resembling a lumpy, sauce-covered meatball, the nebula measures about 150 light-years across and is located 3,000 light-years from Earth. Simeis 147 is a supernova remnant that was born when a massive star exploded some 40,000 years ago. Astrophotographer Ron Brecher captured this view of the nebula from his backyard SkyShed observatory in Guelph, Canada.

[Teh One Who Knocks]

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A gorgeous, green meteor flies toward the northern lights in this stunning image by astrophotographer Matthew Skinner. He captured the meteor over a mountain range near Palmer, Alaska just after midnight on Dec. 14, when the Geminid meteor shower was at its peak. To the left of the meteor, a lime-green aurora peeks out from the top of the mountain range.

[Teh One Who Knocks]

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Clouds and storms swirl on Jupiter in this image from NASA's Juno spacecraft. Citizen scientist Kevin Gill used data collected by the spacecraft's JunoCam imager during a flyby on July 11 to create this color-enhanced view.

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Perseverance Valley as seen from NASA's Mars rover Opportunity

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NASA's Juno spacecraft captured this image of Jupiter shortly after completing its 12th close flyby of the planet on April 1, 2018.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Gerald Eichstad/Sean Doran

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The first image of the moon's far side taken by China's Chang'e 4 probe, which touched down on Jan. 2, 2019 (Jan. 3 Beijing time).
Credit: CNSA

Is it just me or does it look like the Chinese Space Agency stole their logo from Star Trek? :-k

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Mars 'barchan dunes' seen in amazing image from NASA

[Teh One Who Knocks]

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The last message that NASA ever received from the Opportunity Rover on Mars. They've tried for months to bring it back online, but they're received no responses and they are finally declaring the mission over. Opportunity was supposed to have a 3 month mission on the red planet and ended up going for 15 years.

:rip:


**Cross posted from "post a random picture"

[Teh One Who Knocks]

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Meteor Misses Galaxy
Image Credit: Aman Chokshi

Explanation: The galaxy was never in danger. For one thing, the Triangulum galaxy (M33), pictured, is much bigger than the tiny grain of rock at the head of the meteor. For another, the galaxy is much farther away -- in this instance 3 million light years as opposed to only about 0.0003 light seconds. Even so, the meteor's path took it angularly below the galaxy. Also the wind high in Earth's atmosphere blew the meteor's glowing evaporative molecule train away from the galaxy, in angular projection. Still, the astrophotographer was quite lucky to capture both a meteor and a galaxy in a single exposure -- which was subsequently added to two other images of M33 to bring up the spiral galaxy's colors. At the end, the meteor was gone in a second, but the galaxy will last billions of years.

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Mercury Messenger Flyby

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Saturn as photographed by NASA's Cassini spacecraft in 2016

[Teh One Who Knocks]

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Voyager 2 acquired this image fewer than 5 days before its closest approach to Neptune on August 25, 1989. You can see Neptune’s Great Dark Spot – a storm in its atmosphere – and the bright, light-blue smudge of clouds that accompanies the storm.

The only spacecraft to visit Neptune thus far.

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Looming some 135 million light-years from Earth in the constellation of Centaurus is the bright emission line galaxy NGC 3749, seen here in an image from the Hubble Space Telescope.

[Teh One Who Knocks]

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On Nov. 11, 2019, the planet Mercury crossed the face of the sun in a rare Mercury transit.

This image, from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, shows Mercury as a small black dot as it approaches the left edge (or limb) of the sun to begin the transit.

[Teh One Who Knocks]

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Voyager 2 acquired the images for this high-resolution mosaic of Triton on August 25, 1989. The south pole is at the left; several of Triton's famous south polar geysers are visible. Toward the equator at right, Triton is covered with a strange "cantaloupe terrain".

[Teh One Who Knocks]

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https://www.nasa.gov/specials/artemis/

[Hikari Kisugi]

That's all very cool and all.
I do love space stuff.
Explain their mocked up picture? Looks awfully like they're on the moon and Earth is a burnt out husk.....

We must really fuck up in next few years.

Unless they are showing moon to Mars as stepping stone, which in itself is odd given the distance.

[Teh One Who Knocks]

That's all very cool and all.
I do love space stuff.
Explain their mocked up picture? Looks awfully like they're on the moon and Earth is a burnt out husk.....

We must really fuck up in next few years.

Unless they are showing moon to Mars as stepping stone, which in itself is odd given the distance.

I think they're just showing the return to the moon as the stepping stone to getting to Mars. And Mars is shown so close behind the moon because if they showed it at actual distance, it would just be a speck. :P

[Hikari Kisugi]

hmm, I'm going with burnt out husk of Earth....

lol

[Teh One Who Knocks]

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[lost in melb.]

Posted this in my shit hole thread a couple of days ago... It's got a very interesting commentary with that video about the transmission limitations and the technology needed to create the vids

[Teh One Who Knocks]

https://i.imgur.com/M14Dw8F.jpg

[Hugh_Janus]

:cool:

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Saturn is truly the lord of the rings in this latest snapshot from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, taken on July 4, 2020, when the opulent giant world was 839 million miles from Earth. (Courtesy of NASA/ESA/A. Simon/M.H. Wong/OPAL Team)

[Teh One Who Knocks]

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[lost in melb.]

Totally calming.

[Teh One Who Knocks]

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[FBD]

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as great as these pictures are, it still never compares to actually having your eye absorb photons that have bounced off that motherfucker...will never forget the blackness of space in between planet in rings in 2007 when saturn was at its max tilt w respect to the earth, it was like how much more black can you get, and the answer is none, none more black

I wound up giving that telescope to my brother's kids up in maine, sky got too bright around here for 2 of my 3 lenses :hitler:

I still got that 8 incher tho, and I was glad to see that solar filters have dropped in price precipitously since I last looked...I will have to do a little research and pick one up so I can start staring at the sun

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Are you calling bullshit?

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On most nights, when the conditions are right, you can see Jupiter without a telescope, but the moons of Jupiter are too small to view without one. With the best conditions, you could see Jupiter's 4 largest moons with binoculars.

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On most nights, when the conditions are right, you can see Jupiter without a telescope, but the moons of Jupiter are too small to view without one. With the best conditions, you could see Jupiter's 4 largest moons with binoculars.

It could be a telephoto lens and a very distant Forest. I think what surprises me is how sharp it is close to the horizon. Usually the air is too thick to get a decent pic

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It could be a telephoto lens and a very distant Forest. I think what surprises me is how sharp it is close to the horizon. Usually the air is too thick to get a decent pic

That is very true, I did not think of that. And then again, I don't have a telephoto lens, so I don't know very much about them aside from them being all kinds of awesome. With respect to the air being thick, I'm not too sure about that. He could be at a higher than assumed elevation.

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On April 10th, 2017, there was a special meeting in the night sky: the Moon was seen close to Jupiter and Jupiter’s four largest moons, known as the Galilean moons. Photographer Göran Strand went out and captured the beautiful photo above of the entire group in a single frame.

“It’s a very beautiful sight in the sky tonight with the Moon and Jupiter so close together,” the Swedish astrophotographer writes. “At the time for this photo (19:33 UTC) they were 1°45′ apart.”

At the bottom of the frame, from top to bottom, we see Callisto, Europa, Ganymede, Io, and Jupiter.

https://i.imgur.com/58PnvGD.jpg
A cropped and enlarged view of Jupiter and its moons at the bottom of the frame.

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What is more amazing is that Jupiter and moons are 400 million miles away

[Teh One Who Knocks]

Just wanted to post more photos of Jupiter and the moons (from Earth) since it seemed people were questioning the validity of the first one I posted. The second photo down shows you can do it without a telescope.

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I'm still enjoying this...exploring the theme further


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEoqv0PAAT8

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You jerk. You sent me down a video rabbit hole with that one. ^^^^ That was 5 hours ago. :lol:

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Just wanted to post more photos of Jupiter and the moons (from Earth) since it seemed people were questioning the validity of the first one I posted. The second photo down shows you can do it without a telescope.

it looked a bit fishy, the one with the trees in view, jupiter & moons looked WAY too big in that photo :D or were those trees 400 miles away :dance:

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it looked a bit fishy, the one with the trees in view, jupiter & moons looked WAY too big in that photo :D or were those trees 400 miles away :dance:

that's what we were suggesting

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A strong indicator of life? I doubt it. Phosphine occurs naturally on Jupiter. Admittedly, the natural processes that form phosphine gas on Jupiter couldn't possibly exist on Venus, but there's more than one way to skin a cat. We can't just automatically assume that it's due to some kind of living organisms.

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I heard everything dies in uranus :shrug:

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Stunning. I'm waiting for a clear night to check it out myself

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Stunning. I'm waiting for a clear night to check it out myself

yeah unfortunately it was a little too cloudy to see it here last night....by the looks of it I coulda got both of them in view with my medium lens but probably not the strong one.

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[PorkChopSandwiches]

It drove by me in LA when it was rolling thru

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I'd have gotten in trouble for trying to ride on the wing :dance:

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that's a pretty close flyby, we dont usually get pics from that vantage point

[Teh One Who Knocks]

that's a pretty close flyby, we dont usually get pics from that vantage point

It's from the Juno mission back in 2019:


This striking view of Jupiter's Great Red Spot and turbulent southern hemisphere was captured by NASA's Juno spacecraft as it performed a close pass of the gas giant planet.

Juno took the three images used to produce this color-enhanced view on Feb. 12, 2019, between 9:59 a.m. PST (12:59 p.m. EST) and 10:39 a.m. PST (1:39 p.m. EST), as the spacecraft performed its 17th science pass of Jupiter. At the time the images were taken, the spacecraft was between 16,700 miles (26,900 kilometers) and 59,300 miles (95,400 kilometers) above Jupiter's cloud tops, above a southern latitude spanning from about 40 to 74 degrees.

Citizen scientist Kevin M. Gill created this image using data from the spacecraft's JunoCam imager.

https://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/Juno

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the spacecraft was between 16,700 miles (26,900 kilometers) and 59,300 miles (95,400 kilometers) above Jupiter's cloud tops

hehe, cuz we dont know exactly where the cloud tops are! that's awesomely close to fkn Jupiter :tup:

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Voyager 1s final photograph (of earth)


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NASA's Mars Perseverance rover acquired this image of the area in back of it using its onboard Rear Left Hazard Avoidance Camera.

This image was acquired on Apr. 4, 2021 (Sol 43) at the local mean solar time of 15:14:09.

Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

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The subject of this image is a group of three galaxies, collectively known as NGC 7764A. They were imaged by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, using both its Advanced Camera for Surveys and Wide Field Camera 3. The two galaxies in the upper right of the image appear to be interacting with one another. The long trails of stars and gas extending from them give the impression that they have both just been struck at great speed, thrown into disarray by the bowling-ball-shaped galaxy to the lower left of the image. In reality, interactions between galaxies happen over very long time periods, and galaxies rarely collide head-on with one another. It is also unclear whether the galaxy to the lower left is interacting with the other two, although they are so relatively close in space that it seems possible that they are. By happy coincidence, the collective interaction between these galaxies has caused the two on the upper right to form a shape, which from our solar system's perspective, resembles the starship known as the USS Enterprise from Star Trek!

NGC 7764A, which lies about 425 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Phoenix, is a fascinating example of just how awkward astronomical nomenclature can be. The three galaxies are individually referred as NGC 7764A1, NGC 7764A2, and NGC 7764A3. This rather haphazard naming makes more sense when we consider that many astronomical catalogs were compiled well over 100 years ago, long before modern technology made standardizing scientific terminology much easier. As it is, many astronomical objects have several different names, or might have names that are so similar to other objects’ names that they cause confusion.

Text credit: European Space Agency (ESA)

Image credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, J. Dalcanton, Dark Energy Survey, U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), Fermilab (FNAL), Dark Energy Survey Camera (DECam), Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory (CTIO), NoirLab/National Science Foundation/AURA, European Southern Observatory (ESO); Acknowledgment: J. Schmidt

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The dawn of a new era in astronomy has begun as the world gets its first look at the full capabilities of NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, a partnership with ESA (European Space Agency) and CSA (Canadian Space Agency). The telescope’s first full-color images and spectroscopic data are being released during a televised broadcast beginning at 10:30 a.m. EDT (14:30 UTC) on Tuesday, July 12, from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. The images will be published to this page as they are revealed during the broadcast. These listed targets below represent the first wave of full-color scientific images and spectra the observatory has gathered, and the official beginning of Webb’s general science operations. They were selected by an international committee of representatives from NASA, ESA, CSA, and the Space Telescope Science Institute. Learn more about how to watch.

Released one by one, the first images from the world’s largest and most powerful space telescope will demonstrate Webb at its full power, ready to begin its mission to unfold the infrared universe. The first images will be added to this page as they are released.

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In an enormous new image, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope reveals never-before-seen details of galaxy group “Stephan’s Quintet”
The close proximity of Stephan’s Quintet gives astronomers a ringside seat to galactic mergers, interactions
Webb’s new image shows in rare detail how interacting galaxies trigger star formation in each other and how gas in galaxies is being disturbed
The image also shows outflows driven by a black hole in Stephan’s Quintet in a level of detail never seen before
Tight galaxy groups like this may have been more common in the early universe when superheated, infalling material may have fueled very energetic black holes

Stephan’s Quintet, a visual grouping of five galaxies, is best known for being prominently featured in the holiday classic film, “It’s a Wonderful Life.” Today, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope reveals Stephan’s Quintet in a new light. This enormous mosaic is Webb’s largest image to date, covering about one-fifth of the Moon’s diameter. It contains over 150 million pixels and is constructed from almost 1,000 separate image files. The information from Webb provides new insights into how galactic interactions may have driven galaxy evolution in the early universe.

With its powerful, infrared vision and extremely high spatial resolution, Webb shows never-before-seen details in this galaxy group. Sparkling clusters of millions of young stars and starburst regions of fresh star birth grace the image. Sweeping tails of gas, dust and stars are being pulled from several of the galaxies due to gravitational interactions. Most dramatically, Webb captures huge shock waves as one of the galaxies, NGC 7318B, smashes through the cluster.

Together, the five galaxies of Stephan’s Quintet are also known as the Hickson Compact Group 92 (HCG 92). Although called a “quintet,” only four of the galaxies are truly close together and caught up in a cosmic dance. The fifth and leftmost galaxy, called NGC 7320, is well in the foreground compared with the other four. NGC 7320 resides 40 million light-years from Earth, while the other four galaxies (NGC 7317, NGC 7318A, NGC 7318B, and NGC 7319) are about 290 million light-years away. This is still fairly close in cosmic terms, compared with more distant galaxies billions of light-years away. Studying such relatively nearby galaxies like these helps scientists better understand structures seen in a much more distant universe.

This proximity provides astronomers a ringside seat for witnessing the merging and interactions between galaxies that are so crucial to all of galaxy evolution. Rarely do scientists see in so much detail how interacting galaxies trigger star formation in each other, and how the gas in these galaxies is being disturbed. Stephan’s Quintet is a fantastic “laboratory” for studying these processes fundamental to all galaxies.

Tight groups like this may have been more common in the early universe when their superheated, infalling material may have fueled very energetic black holes called quasars. Even today, the topmost galaxy in the group – NGC 7319 – harbors an active galactic nucleus, a supermassive black hole 24 million times the mass of the Sun. It is actively pulling in material and puts out light energy equivalent to 40 billion Suns.

Webb studied the active galactic nucleus in great detail with the Near-Infrared Spectrograph (NIRSpec) and Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI). These instruments’ integral field units (IFUs) – which are a combination of a camera and spectrograph – provided the Webb team with a “data cube,” or collection of images of the galactic core’s spectral features.

Much like medical magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), the IFUs allow scientists to “slice and dice” the information into many images for detailed study. Webb pierced through the shroud of dust surrounding the nucleus to reveal hot gas near the active black hole and measure the velocity of bright outflows. The telescope saw these outflows driven by the black hole in a level of detail never seen before.

In NGC 7320, the leftmost and closest galaxy in the visual grouping, Webb was able to resolve individual stars and even the galaxy’s bright core.

As a bonus, Webb revealed a vast sea of thousands of distant background galaxies reminiscent of Hubble’s Deep Fields.

Combined with the most detailed infrared image ever of Stephan’s Quintet from MIRI and the Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam), the data from Webb will provide a bounty of valuable, new information. For example, it will help scientists understand the rate at which supermassive black holes feed and grow. Webb also sees star-forming regions much more directly, and it is able to examine emission from the dust – a level of detail impossible to obtain until now.

Located in the constellation Pegasus, Stephan’s Quintet was discovered by the French astronomer Édouard Stephan in 1877.

Image credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI

https://www.nasa.gov/webbfirstimages

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mind bottleing

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NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope reveals emerging stellar nurseries and individual stars in the Carina Nebula that were previously obscured
Images of “Cosmic Cliffs” showcase Webb’s cameras’ capabilities to peer through cosmic dust, shedding new light on how stars form
Objects in the earliest, rapid phases of star formation are difficult to capture, but Webb’s extreme sensitivity, spatial resolution, and imaging capability can chronicle these elusive events

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President Joe Biden unveiled this image of galaxy cluster SMACS 0723, known as Webb’s First Deep Field, during a White House event Monday, July 11
Webb’s image covers a patch of sky approximately the size of a grain of sand held at arm’s length by someone on the ground – and reveals thousands of galaxies in a tiny sliver of vast universe
Webb’s sharp near-infrared view brought out faint structures in extremely distant galaxies, offering the most detailed view of the early universe to date
NASA and its partners will release the full series of Webb’s first full-color images and data, known as spectra, Tuesday, July 12, during a live NASA TV broadcast

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has delivered the deepest and sharpest infrared image of the distant universe so far. Webb’s First Deep Field is galaxy cluster SMACS 0723, and it is teeming with thousands of galaxies – including the faintest objects ever observed in the infrared.

Webb’s image is approximately the size of a grain of sand held at arm’s length, a tiny sliver of the vast universe. The combined mass of this galaxy cluster acts as a gravitational lens, magnifying more distant galaxies, including some seen when the universe was less than a billion years old. This deep field, taken by Webb’s Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam), is a composite made from images at different wavelengths, totaling 12.5 hours – achieving depths at infrared wavelengths beyond the Hubble Space Telescope’s deepest fields, which took weeks. And this is only the beginning. Researchers will continue to use Webb to take longer exposures, revealing more of our vast universe.

This image shows the galaxy cluster SMACS 0723 as it appeared 4.6 billion years ago, with many more galaxies in front of and behind the cluster. Much more about this cluster will be revealed as researchers begin digging into Webb’s data. This field was also imaged by Webb’s Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI), which observes mid-infrared light.

Webb’s NIRCam has brought distant galaxies into sharp focus – they have tiny, faint structures that have never been seen before, including star clusters and diffuse features.

Light from these galaxies took billions of years to reach us. We are looking back in time to within a billion years after the big bang when viewing the youngest galaxies in this field. The light was stretched by the expansion of the universe to infrared wavelengths that Webb was designed to observe. Researchers will soon begin to learn more about the galaxies’ masses, ages, histories, and compositions.

Other features include the prominent arcs in this field. The powerful gravitational field of a galaxy cluster can bend the light rays from more distant galaxies behind it, just as a magnifying glass bends and warps images. Stars are also captured with prominent diffraction spikes, as they appear brighter at shorter wavelengths.

Webb’s MIRI image offers a kaleidoscope of colors and highlights where the dust is – a major ingredient for star formation, and ultimately life itself. Blue galaxies contain stars, but very little dust. The red objects in this field are enshrouded in thick layers of dust. Green galaxies are populated with hydrocarbons and other chemical compounds. Researchers will be able to use data like these to understand how galaxies form, grow, and merge with each other, and in some cases why they stop forming stars altogether.

In addition to taking images, two of Webb’s instruments also obtained spectra – data that reveal objects’ physical and chemical properties that will help researchers identify many more details about distant galaxies in this field. Webb’s Near Infrared Spectrograph (NIRSpec) microshutter array observed 48 individual galaxies at the same time – a new technology used for the first time in space – returning a full suite of details about each. The data revealed light from one galaxy that traveled for 13.1 billion years before Webb’s mirrors captured it. NIRSpec data also demonstrate how detailed galaxy spectra will be with Webb observations.

Finally, Webb’s Near-Infrared Imager and Slitless Spectrograph (NIRISS) used Wide-Field Slitless Spectroscopy to capture spectra of all the objects in the entire field of view at once. Among the results, it proves that one of the galaxies has a mirror image.

SMACS 0723 can be viewed near the constellation Volans in the southern sky.

Image credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI

[Teh One Who Knocks]

When you see an image like this with THOUSANDS of galaxies in it and knowing that there are trillions upon trillions upon trillions of stars....anyone who can look at that and still think we are alone in this universe is just insane.

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James Webb vs Hubble (click drag to compare)

https://amp.abc.net.au/article/101233396

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NASA Halloween photos. Pillars of Creation - James Webb telescope

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