What Did Hubble See On Your Birthday? (x)

What Did Hubble See On Your Birthday? (x)

What did Hubble see on your birthday? (x)

Dec. 3, 2009 - Stellar Jewel Box NGC 3603

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NGC 6744

NGC 6744

via APOD/NASA; Credit: NASA, ESA, and the LEGUS team 


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Corona Australis

Corona Australis

Nebula is mostly hydrogen gas, and a small amount of metals (elements above helium) which tend to be covered as "Dust", but it's the dust that best reflect the light of the stars, and as the largest and most energetic of them are blue, you get these areas of blue haze. Hydrogen more often glows red when bombarded by UV light, the two colours together quite magical.

Corona Australis

The area has a number of NGC objects 6726,6727,6729 but born of the same huge molecular cloud.

Our Milky Way has many such areas full of star birth, and as blue giants are not long lived, supernova and star death too.

Cosmic Delights And Distant Discoveries Unfold In ‘Astronomy Photographer Of The Year 15’
Cosmic Delights And Distant Discoveries Unfold In ‘Astronomy Photographer Of The Year 15’
Cosmic Delights And Distant Discoveries Unfold In ‘Astronomy Photographer Of The Year 15’

Cosmic Delights and Distant Discoveries Unfold in ‘Astronomy Photographer of the Year 15’

Shit Man This Got Me Emotional

shit man this got me emotional

Y'all, the world is sleeping on what NASA just pulled off with Voyager 1

The probe has been sending gibberish science data back to Earth, and scientists feared it was just the probe finally dying. You know, after working for 50 GODDAMN YEARS and LEAVING THE GODDAMN SOLAR SYSTEM and STILL CHURNING OUT GODDAMN DATA.

So they analyzed the gibberish and realized that in it was a total readout of EVERYTHING ON THE PROBE. Data, the programming, hardware specs and status, everything. They realized that one of the chips was malfunctioning.

So what do you do when your probe is 22 Billion km away and needs a fix? Why, you just REPROGRAM THAT ENTIRE GODDAMN THING. Told it to avoid the bad chip, store the data elsewhere.

Sent the new code on April 18th. Got a response on April 20th - yeah, it's so far away that it took that long just to transmit.

And the probe is working again.

From a programmer's perspective, that may be the most fucking impressive thing I have ever heard.

With Giant Storms, Powerful Winds, Auroras, And Extreme Temperature And Pressure Conditions, Jupiter
With Giant Storms, Powerful Winds, Auroras, And Extreme Temperature And Pressure Conditions, Jupiter

With giant storms, powerful winds, auroras, and extreme temperature and pressure conditions, Jupiter has a lot going on. Now, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has captured new images of the planet. Webb’s Jupiter observations will give scientists even more clues to Jupiter’s inner life.  

Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, Jupiter ERS Team; image processing by Judy Schmidt. Read more

2023 September 28

2023 September 28

The Deep Lagoon Image Credit & Copyright: Josep Drudis, Christian Sasse

Explanation: Ridges of glowing interstellar gas and dark dust clouds inhabit the turbulent, cosmic depths of the Lagoon Nebula. Also known as M8, The bright star forming region is about 5,000 light-years distant. It makes for a popular stop on telescopic tours of the constellation Sagittarius toward the center of our Milky Way Galaxy. Dominated by the telltale red emission of ionized hydrogen atoms recombining with stripped electrons, this deep telescopic view of the Lagoon’s central reaches is about 40 light-years across. The bright hourglass shape near the center of the frame is gas ionized and sculpted by energetic radiation and extreme stellar winds from a massive young star.

∞ Source: apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap230928.html


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The 2nd Full Moon Of August 2023 L Rami Ammoun
The 2nd Full Moon Of August 2023 L Rami Ammoun

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Comet Leonard
Comet Leonard

Comet Leonard

Going For A Walk. Apollo 17 Astronaut Ronald Evans Leaves To The Spacecraft To Retrieve Film Cassettes

Going for a walk. Apollo 17 astronaut Ronald Evans leaves to the spacecraft to retrieve film cassettes from the Service Module, Dec 1972. Mr. Evans was Command Module Pilot & orbited the moon a record 75 times during the mission. He holds the record for most time spent in lunar orbit at just shy of 148 hours. He is the last human to orbit the moon solo. A historic figure in space pioneering.

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