Starburst Galaxy M94 From Hubble Via NASA Https://ift.tt/OjdETcr

Starburst Galaxy M94 from Hubble via NASA https://ift.tt/OjdETcr

A Dusty Fingerprint in Space

An image from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope shows a bright dot at the center of star-filled black space. The bright dot is actually two stars meeting, as their orbits bring them together every 8 years. The stellar pair are surrounded by 17 rings of gas and dust that appear orangish gray. The rings have a slight rectangular shape and are very clear and defined starting at about 1 o’clock on a clockface. The rings start to break up a bit to our view traveling clockwise around the image. As you arrive at the 12:40 position, only parts of about six rings can be seen as they disappear from view.

A new image from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope reveals a remarkable cosmic sight: at least 17 concentric dust rings emanating from a pair of stars. Just 5,300 light-years from Earth, the star duo are collectively known as Wolf-Rayet 140. Each ring was created when the two stars came close together and their stellar winds (streams of gas they blow into space) collided so forcefully that some of the gas was compressed into dust. The stars' orbits bring them together about once every eight years, and forms a half-shell of dust that looks like a ring from our perspective. Like a cosmic fingerprint, the 17 rings reveal more than a century of stellar interactions—and the "fingerprint" belonging to Wolf-Rayet 140 may be equally unique. Other Wolf-Rayet stars produce dust, but no other pair are known to produce rings quite like Wolf-Rayet 140.

Learn more about Wolf-Rayet 140.

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this is my space centered blog, sharing in case any of you guys like space too :^)

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Screenshot from nebula Wikipedia page: The "Pillars of Creation" from the Eagle Nebula. Evidence from the Spitzer Space Telescope suggests that the pillars may already have been destroyed by a supernova explosion, but the light showing us the destruction will not reach the Earth for another millennium.[1]

btw . insane little wikipedia caption for everyone’s consideration also

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The Clearest Images Of Jupiter Ever Taken

The Clearest Images of Jupiter ever taken

These beautifully real images are some of the closest images of Jupiter. Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun and the largest in the Solar System. It is a gas giant with a mass more than two and a half times that of all the other planets in the Solar System combined, but slightly less than one-thousandth the mass of the Sun. The original image was captured by JunoCam, the camera on NASA's Juno mission in orbit around Jupiter. This image was taken on Juno's 22nd close pass by Jupiter on Sept. 12, 2019 with image processing done by Prateek.

📸: NASA's Juno Space Probe / JunoCam

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Turquoise Plumes in the Large Magellanic Cloud by NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center

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Why is this heat so hot 😩

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oh okay. heart steps right out of my chest and falls down the stairs

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NGC 6960, Witch’s Broom

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Comet Leonard

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damn my fallible body !!! i want to see it all at least i’ll live to see Halley’s Comet i mean if all goes well i want to be a bodyless projection of consciousness who will view the turning of time and the cosmic spill and churn of the universe just to see it all unfold like an omnipotent god but without dictation just observance i wouldn’t be lonely

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