Lunar Eclipse Time Lapse

Stars over water reservoir in austria by H4ppy4uer89

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MOXIE has ability to reliably produce oxygen at any time of day and during any season on Mars. The primary demonstration goal of MOXIE is to produce oxygen, one of the two components of rocket propellant. Returning a mission crew to Earth might require more than 30 tons of oxygen, which is too much weight to carry on board. Therefore, a scaled-up version of MOXIE would be sent to Mars ahead of a planned mission and operated continuously to produce oxygen reserves that would become rocket propellant. 🌌 🔭

Video credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

Hubble Celebrates its 33rd Anniversary With NGC 1333 in Perseus 

What would happen if I go into a black hole? Do you think I would disappear forever or would I still exist inside the black hole?

Sun Conjunct Jupiter April 11, 2023 The Sun brings highlights. It sheds light and illuminates.

IC-1396, The Elephant’s Trunk Nebula by CosmicWreckingBall

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Saturn setting over Mount Rainier.

What glows there? The answer depends: sea or sky? In the sea, the unusual blue glow is bioluminescence. Specifically, the glimmer arises from Noctiluca scintillans, single-celled plankton stimulated by the lapping waves.

The plankton use their glow to startle and illuminate predators. This mid-February display on an island in the Maldives was so intense that the astrophotographer described it as a turquoise wonderland.

In the sky, by contrast, are the more familiar glows of stars and nebulas. The white band rising from the artificially-illuminated green plants is created by billions of stars in the central disk of our Milky Way Galaxy.

Also visible in the sky is the star cluster Omega Centauri, toward the left, and the famous Southern Cross asterism in the center.

Red-glowing nebulas include the bright Carina Nebula, just right of center, and the expansive Gum Nebula on the upper right.

📷: Petr Horálek / Institute of Physics in Opava, Sovena Jani

Enceladus [6th Largest Moon Of Saturn]

This is real spaceporn : huge meteorite impact on Mars. Picture by NASA/JPL/University of Arizona [1080x1080] by fromspacewlove

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