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Mars Rotation - via Space Telescope Science Institute This animation was assembled from a combination of Hubble Space Telescope images of Mars taken from December 28th to 30th, 2024. At the midpoint of the Hubble observations, Mars was approximately 61 million miles from Earth.
Sea Ice Extent 1978-2025 Credit: Mark SubbaRao (NASA/GSFC) Link: svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5521/ The Sea Ice Index provides a quick look at Arctic- and Antarctic-wide changes in sea ice. #earth #climate #climatecrisis
Cosmic Tornado Credits: NASA, ESA, CSA, J. DePasquale (STScI), L. Hustak (STScI), G. Bacon (STScI), R. Crawford (STScI), D. Kirshenblat (STScI), C. Nieves (STScI), A. Pagan (STScI), F. Summers (STScI)
Sidereal vs Synodic Month Animation of Moon Rotation: LRO, Arizona State U., NASA Infographic: SpaceFM A sidereal month is the time the Moon orbits the Earth as respect to the background stars.
NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter captured this image of @fireflyaerospace 's Blue Ghost Mission 1 lander on the Moon Link: www.lroc.asu.edu/images/1406 #lroc #blueghost #space #moon
Have you ever seen a star in its dying moments? Thanks to Hubble, now you do! 🔭 This is the Egg Nebula (CRL2688), a protoplanetary nebula ~3,000 light-years away. I processed 2016 Hubble data for the first image; 2002 for the second, which is more like a zoom into it. HD: flic.kr/p/2qLkMCK
Primary Mirror Size Comparison Between Webb and Hubble Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center The James Webb Space Telescope primary mirror is 6.5 meters (21 feet 4-inches) across. The Hubble Space Telescope primary mirror is 2.4 meters (8-feet) across.
The PLANETS* to scale not only in size, but also in their tilt and rotation speed - credit Dr. James O'Donoghue @interplanetary.bsky.social Link: youtu.be/WX6PRDqfLNc From description: "To roughly explain the tilts: we think they started out roughly the same in tilt, so either by huge impacts,
A large 2,400 kilometer (1,491 miles) wide cyclone near Jupiter’s North Temperate Belt. Seen by Juno during Perijove 68, Dec. 27 2024. flic.kr/p/2qJVX1m
True-Color Solar System Collage Credit: Ellen Brundige True-Color solar system collage: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto Source: owlcation.com/stem/True-Co... #SolarSystem #space #planets #astronomy #Astrophotography #science #EllenBrundige #collage #solarsystem
Mars Apparent Retrogade Motion as seen from Earth Visually Explained Apparent Retrograde Motion is when Mars appears to move backward in the sky as seen from Earth. Found here: www.reddit.com/r/physicsgif... #mars #earth #space #orbit #motion #astronomy #science
Firefly’s Blue Ghost lunar lander caught Earth on video as the lander continued its journey to the Moon - Credit: @FireflyAerospace Blue Ghost is expected to land on March 2, delivering 10 different NASA science investigations to the Moon’s surface.
La Cometa C/2024G3-Atlas, dopo il passaggio intorno al Sole ha iniziato a disintegrarsi ma lasciando dietro una coda enorme e spettacolare, svariate volte più lunga del Sole stesso! Credit - NASA/STEREO/SECCHI + Alan Watson
If extraterrestrial civilizations are monitoring our TV broadcasts, then this is what they are currently watching Credit: Abstruse Goose: Electromagnetic Leak Link: www.lastwordonnothing.com/2013/01/21/a...
Did Earth capture the Moon? Darren M. Williams, et. al. has revived the capture hypothesis in his recent paper H/t Tony Dunn (X) If a binary planet system passed close enough to Earth, it could break up the binary pair capturing one.
Jupiter, from JunoCam PJ45 raw data acquired between 2024-12-27T04:39 and 2024-12-27T05:10 from altitude ranging from 54456 to 10141 km (exaggerated color/contrast)
Total solar eclipse seen from space - via @europeanspaceagency , data @noaa These Images are always beautiful!! Geostationary satellite GOES 16 orbiting 36 000 km away captured images of the rare celestial event happened on 8 april 2024
Enceladus in 2013 as its cryovolcanic plumes feed into Saturn’s E ring. Stars streaks due to the long exposure by Cassini. Extending to the left is the moon’s shadow.
Ants Solving A Puzzle Credit: "Comparing cooperative geometric puzzle solving in ants versus humans" (scientific paper, doi.org/10.1073/pnas..., Tabea Dreyer, Amir Haluts Amos Korman and Ofer Feinerman) When ants work in groups, their performances rise significantly.
A new study charts 2 billion years of life's diversity and major extinctions. It highlights one of the great mysteries of Earth history: Why was life largely stagnant for a "boring billion" years, and how did it break out of that rut? 🧪 astrobiology.com/2024/12/exte...
Slow-motion videos of sprites taken from Hiratsuka (Japan) on December 21, 2024 - credit @dfuji1.bsky.social (X, #dfuji1) Infographic via noaa Link x.com/dfuji1/statu...
The same day, NASA’s Juno made its 65th closest approach to Jupiter bsky.app/profile/andr...
Andrea Luck@andrealuck.bsky.social · 2y agoJupiter 's Circumpolar Cyclones a few days ago... Full size image: flic.kr/p/2qjjjrc 🔭 NASA's Juno Orbit (Perijove) 65 Title: PJ65 North Pole at Minimum Emission Angle Altitude: 11084.3 km Time: 2024-09-20T02:16:24.037 ID: JNCE_2024264_65C00036_V01 Filter: BLUE, GREEN, RED
December Solstice - via @eumetsat.bsky.social and @esa On December 21, 2024, at 10:19 CET, the December solstice occurred, marking a significant astronomical event. During the solstice, the terminator line—the imaginary line dividing day and night—reached its greatest angle
VERY DETAILED SIDE VIEW OF “THE LOCAL GROUP” OF GALAXIES - via @pablocarlosbudassi.bsky.social A detailed lateral view of the Local Group of galaxies that contains the Milky Way, Andromeda, and other 120 minor galaxies. Expected future paths for major group members are denoted with arrows.
Nasa telescope captures green Christmas tree-shaped cluster of stars lighting up This stunning, digitally enhanced footage showcases the young star cluster NGC 2264, located about 2,500 light-years away from Earth.
Comparison of the sizes of selected stars From left to right are Cygnus OB2 #12 (blue hypergiant and luminous blue variable), V382 Carinae (yellow hypergiant), V915 Scorpii (orange hypergiant), UY Scuti, and Stephenson 2-18 (red supergiants/hypergiants)
NASA’s Hubble Sees Aftermath of Galaxy’s Scrape with Milky Way #star #space #largemagellaniccloud #astronomy #milkyway
