Galactic Giants Titan and Saturn via NASA https://ift.tt/NhblBA6
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James Webb Telescope's stunning image of Jupiter !
NASA scientists have also released new shots of the solar system's biggest planet, describing the results as "quite incredible".
The James Webb Telescope took the photos back in July, capturing unprecedented views of Jupiter’s northern and southern lights, and swirling polar haze. Jupiter's Great Red Spot, a storm big enough to swallow Earth, stands out brightly alongside countless smaller storms.
One wide-field picture is particularly dramatic, showing the faint rings around the planet, as well as two tiny moons against a glittering background of galaxies.
"We’ve never seen Jupiter like this. It’s all quite incredible," said planetary astronomer Imke de Pater, of the University of California, Berkeley, who helped lead the observations.
"We hadn’t really expected it to be this good, to be honest," she added in a statement.
The infrared images were artificially coloured in blue, white, green, yellow, and orange, according to the US-French research team, to make the features stand out.
AP/NASA
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my new cell phone wallpaper
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𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑳𝒊𝒕𝒕𝒍𝒆 𝑮𝒆𝒎 𝑵𝒆𝒃𝒖𝒍𝒂
This colourful bubble is a planetary nebula called NGC 6818, also known as the Little Gem Nebula. It is located in the constellation of Sagittarius (The Archer), roughly 6000 light-years away from us. The rich glow of the cloud is just over half a light-year across — humongous compared to its tiny central star — but still a little gem on a cosmic scale. When stars like the Sun enter retirement, they shed their outer layers into space to create glowing clouds of gas called planetary nebulae. This ejection of mass is uneven, and planetary nebulae can have very complex shapes. NGC 6818 shows knotty filament-like structures and distinct layers of material, with a bright and enclosed central bubble surrounded by a larger, more diffuse cloud. Scientists believe that the stellar wind from the central star propels the outflowing material, sculpting the elongated shape of NGC 6818. As this fast wind smashes through the slower-moving cloud it creates particularly bright blowouts at the bubble’s outer layers. Hubble previously imaged this nebula back in 1997 with its Wide Field Planetary Camera 2, using a mix of filters that highlighted emission from ionised oxygen and hydrogen (opo9811h). This image, while from the same camera, uses different filters to reveal a different view of the nebula. A version of the image was submitted to the Hubble’s Hidden Treasures image processing competition by contestant Judy Schmidt. less
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Made a phone wallpaper available to download on my kofi (it’s free)
I plan to put more digital content so you can follow me on kofi to stay informed
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Venus, Jupiter, Moon Shine from Space Station via NASA https://ift.tt/0x4QrZ6
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Encke and the Tadpoles
Image Credit & Copyright: Dan Bartlett
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𝑵𝑮𝑪 604
This is a Hubble Space Telescope image (right) of a vast nebula called NGC 604, which lies in the neighbouring spiral galaxy Messier 33, located 2.7 million light-years away in the constellation Triangulum.
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