Happy Hanukkah to all!
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oh,
oh this is absolutely beautiful
I saw some James Webb Telescope scientists give a talk and one of them said this was her favorite image because she had waited and worked 25 years to see this.
Happy Hanukkah to all!
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Saturn in near-infrared
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I couldn’t get a clear view of Saturn and Jupiter tonight due to obstacles, but I am definitely going to keep checking back every night at various times until Dec 21/22 when they’ll practically be in perfect alignment. So excited! I love space!
P.S. the app I’m using is the free SkyView Lite. :)
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Happy Hanukkah to all!
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wow can’t believe jupiter is actually trans <3
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New results from our Juno mission suggest the planet is home to “shallow lightning.” An unexpected form of electrical discharge, shallow lightning comes from a unique ammonia-water solution.
It was previously thought that lightning on Jupiter was similar to Earth, forming only in thunderstorms where water exists in all its phases – ice, liquid, and gas. But flashes observed at altitudes too cold for pure liquid water to exist told a different story. This illustration uses data obtained by the mission to show what these high-altitude electrical storms look like.
Understanding the inner workings of Jupiter allows us to develop theories about atmospheres on other planets and exoplanets!
Illustration Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Gerald Eichstädt/Heidi N. Becker/Koji Kuramura
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How irresponsible of you Jupiter
This is even funnier when you consider that Jupiter is the Roman name for Zeus, who canonically…is a whore and had that many children both full and demi divine
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dude seeing these Mega high quality images of the surface of mars that we now have has me fucked up. Like. Mars is a place. mars is a real actual place where one could hypothetically stand. It is a physical place in the universe. ITS JUST OUT THERE LOOKING LIKE UH IDK A REGULAR OLD DESERT WITH LOTS OF ROCKS BUT ITS A WHOLE OTHER PLANET?
LIKE THIS JUST LOOKS LIKE IT COULD BE A PERSON’S BACKYARD. LIKE YEA A LITTLE DUSTY MAYBE THERE WAS A SANDSTORM BUT THAT’S COOL I’M JUST GONNA WALK DOWN TO THE STORE P S Y C H YOU’RE ON MARS BICH!
jacknabber
i hate to be rude and intrude on this post but we have decent pictures of the surface Venus too!
the venus one especially fucks me up because those pictures were taken on a planet that has a surface temperature hot enough to melt lead and an atmospheric pressure equal to being about 1 km (~0.6 miles) under the ocean and to get there you have to fall through clouds made of sulfuric acid.
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if the heavens ever did speak she is the last true mouthpiece every sunday’s getting more bleak a fresh poison each week