#just jupiter

[aspaceinthecosmos]

Haven't seen anything about Ingenuity on tumblr yet, so I guess I'll make a post about it

Ingenuity (sometimes called Ginny) was an companion craft to Perseverance, one of the rovers currently on Mars. As opposed to any of the past rovers, however, Ingenuity was a rotorcraft intended to fly above Mars' surface.

After landing on Mars in February of 2021 and completing its first flight on April 19th, 2021, Ingenuity became the first aircraft to fly on another planet. Its original goal was only 5 flights, but it well surpassed that number, logging 72 flights with over two hours of in-air time.

On January 18th, 2024, Ingenuity lost contact with Perseverance midway through a flight, and a few days later, NASA had confirmation that the rotors were damaged, leaving Ingenuity incapable of flight.

So long, Ingenuity. You did so much <3

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#just jupiter #aspaceinthecosmos #space #astronomy #outer space #mars #ingenuity #perseverance #mars rover #nasa

[justjupitersart]

finished my charcoal project :)

reblogs are better than likes! i put a lot of work into this!

#my art #just jupiter #jupiter draws #space #outer space #the moon #astronomy #space art #charcoal art #charcoal #drawing #traditional art

[imjustexistingtbh]

how many questions can you answer wrong in 45 seconds??

#just jupiter #hermitcraft #gtws #goodtimeswithscar #xisuma

[kanej-is-superior]

The Greeks would've easily won the Camp Jupiter vs Camp Half Blood battle. Not because of any logical, strategic reasons though. Its because they're batshit crazy

#percy jackson #percy jackon and the olympians #pjo headcanons #percy pjo #camp half blood #annabeth chase #camp jupiter #pjo #pjo series #no bc the romans would be going on with their stupid latin orders and then the greeks would just be throwing poisonous snakes around #and dropping out of trees #on fire #screaming #waving a knife around #tell me im wrong

[geezmarty]

old married men at the family function

#bbc ghosts #patcap #f #absolutely NO ONE look at me I've just been thinking. turn around. #the most unrealistic part of this set is cap sitting on the ground you know ya boy is gonna have back pain the size of jupiter next morning #I would know as a fellow senior citizen (im 30)

[aspaceinthecosmos]

new webb image(s) alert! 19 galaxies imaged in mid and near infrared light

i’m just blown away by the detail in these images- jwst never ceases to amaze me.

you can find the full resolution images of each of these galaxies in the official release here - i highly recommend looking through each of them, they’re STUNNING.

#aspaceinthecosmos #space #astronomy #outer space #just jupiter #astrophotography #galaxies #jwst #james webb space telescope #james webb #nasa #infrared astronomy

[aspaceinthecosmos]

Are you a Neptune enjoyer? well I've got some news that will ruin your day! (:

(yes, this news is a couple weeks old now, I had this sitting in my drafts and forgot about it)

We all know Neptune. the beautiful dark blue, windy planet, the farthest planet in our solar system, discovered by math, etc. etc.

[ID in alt]

right?

WRONG.

turns out, when voyager 2 imaged Neptune, the photos were processed in false color to better show the clouds in its atmosphere. While astronomers at the time all knew about this color change, throughout the 34 years since then, the sentiment got lost. Neptune was depicted as dark blue in everything from children's books to university books, and everyone took it as fact that Neptune was, in fact, that shade of blue. But it isn't.

In true color, Neptune is a much, much lighter blue, coming in at only a few shades darker than Uranus (cursed, i know).

Above is the false color image compared to the true color image, while below is true color Neptune compared to true color Uranus [IDs in alt]

anyways I hoped you enjoyed this session of cursed space news with jupiter! smash that like button and subscribe for more *awkward thumbs up*

#that was the most AWKWARD conclusion i have ever written for a post but i love it. and also i had no other idea how to end it... #just jupiter #aspaceinthecosmos #space #astronomy #outer space #nasa #voyager 2 #voyager #neptune #uranus #planets #solar system

[aspaceinthecosmos]

space nerds and enthusiasts, it’s the moment you’ve been waiting for

(or at least- the moment I’VE been waiting for since jwst imaged jupiter)

the James Webb Space Telescope’s NIRCam has imaged Saturn for the first time, and it’s SO COOL!!

above are the two processed images, the lower having the visible moons and rings labeled, but there’s also some unprocessed images from jwst feed, which i think still look super cool, and just show what a world of a difference processing makes.

i think these images are SO cool, and i can’t wait to print them out to hang on my walls :)

#aspaceinthecosmos #space #astronomy #outer space #jwst #james webb #just jupiter #astrophotography #saturn #saturns rings #space telescope

[aspaceinthecosmos]

hello! i've got some GROUNDBREAKING space news for you!

scientists have uncovered evidence for a gravitational wave background (GWB) in our universe, and the way they went about it is fascinating.

To fully understand what's going on here, we need to go into a bit of background information.

First of all: what are gravitational waves? gravitational waves are often called 'ripples' in spacetime, often caused by extremely energetic processes such as black holes colliding, or two neutron stars orbiting each other closely.

So, how did scientists figure this out? They used 67 pulsars (known as the Pulsar Timing Array) throughout the Milky Way, practically creating a galaxy-sized telescope in order to study this.

Pulsars are the extremely dense cores of massive stars, left over after they go supernova. These are fascinating on their own, but for this project, they had an essential feature: Pulsars rapidly rotate (think up to hundreds of rotations per second), spewing radiation out in pulses from their magnetic poles. For some pulsars, these radiation jets cross Earth's line of sight, and we get incredibly constant bursts of radio signals, which can be catalogued and used as a sort of standard, universal clock.

Here is a link to a gif showing the rotation of a pulsar. Please be warned for flashing and eyestrain.

For 15 years, a team of astronomers working for the North American Nanohertz Observatory for Gravitational Waves (NANOGrav), used radio telescopes around the globe to track minuscule changes in the signal patterns from pulsars. The changes they found are due to the slight movement of spacetime between us and the pulsars, stretching and compressing the paths of their radio waves as extremely low frequency gravitational waves pass through the universe (yes, that includes you. your atoms, as well as the atoms making up everything around you, are very slowly shifting position, dancing along to the heartbeat of the universe).

At the moment, scientists are still debating what could have caused this gravitational wave background, but some there are some leading theories: the GWB could be caused by trillions of binary black hole systems (black holes orbiting each other) throughout the universe. It could also be due to cosmic inflation, or even the big bang itself. Scientists just don't know yet, but the opportunities this discovery opens up are incredible.

The knowledge of the GWB could help us better understand the formation of early galaxies, or even help us understand the origin of the universe.

#aspaceinthecosmos #space #astronomy #outer space #just jupiter #astrophysics #gravity #gravitational waves #physics #pulsars #black holes #neutron stars #the universe #LIGO

[justjupitersart]

itty bitty aziraphale and crowley.

they’re in love your honour.

#just jupiter #my art #jupiter doodles #innefable husbands #good omens #aziraphale #crowley #aziracrow #good omens fanart

[aspaceinthecosmos]

got a chance to photograph the moon in daylight today! i’ve never gotten to do that so it was very cool :)

#aspaceinthecosmos #just jupiter #the moon #space #outer space #moon #astronomy #astrophotography

[imjustexistingtbh]

extremely specific meme for the autistics who just want to be eccentric little male presenting non humans

#just jupiter #dw #doctor who #tenth doctor #david tennant #good omens #crowley #crowley good omens

[imjustexistingtbh]

i would tell a joke about series, but i think only sum of you would get it

#just jupiter #this is awful and i love it #math #calculus #math jokes #dad jokes

[imjustexistingtbh]

LOSING TRACK BY THE MECHANISMS. YOU AGREE. REBLOG.

#the mechanisms #the mechs #just jupiter #I LOVE THIS SONG SO MUCH #WHEN ALL THE VOICES OVERLAP AT THE END #AHHHHHHH

[aspaceinthecosmos]

hello! i hope all who wanted to got to see the ring of fire eclipse this morning!

here’s some pictures i took, they’re not great quality, but my university had some solar telescopes set up outside the space sciences buildings so they’re better than most people got which i’m super happy about!

we were unfortunately just outside the main path, but got about 85% coverage at the peak :)

plus some low quality phone pics :)

#aspaceinthecosmos #space #astronomy #outer space #just jupiter #solar eclipse #astrophotography #the sun #the moon #eclipse

[justjupitersart]

just realized i never posted this here

*hands you a gem*

#just jupiter #my art #jupiter draws #art #traditional art #fanart #geminitay #geminislay #secret life #slsmp #geminitay fanart #drawing