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Here’s the orbital period of our solar system’s 8 major planets (how long it takes each to travel around the sun). Their size is to scale and their speed is accurate relative to Earth’s. The repetition of each GIF is proportional to their orbital period. Mercury takes less than 3 months to zoom around Sol, Neptune takes nearly 165 years.
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due to personal reasons this user is a crow | requested by anon
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LMAO FUCK YOU SARA
I don’t know what makes you think you’ll find me. But you never will. And if you’re reading this, I want you to reply. To reblog and type back “short ass motherfucker why you lying I’m right here” because I B E T you’ll never read this.
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LMAO FUCK YOU SARA
I don’t know what makes you think you’ll find me. But you never will. And if you’re reading this, I want you to reply. To reblog and type back “short ass motherfucker why you lying I’m right here” because I B E T you’ll never read this.
B E T
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NASA has released new images of Jupiter, taken by the Juno Spacecraft.







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The pillars of creation, massive stellar nebulas.
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Saturn and its rings in near Infrared.
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Saturn as seen from Titan, painted by Chesley Bonestell, 1948.
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Saturn’s atmosphere exhibits a banded pattern similar to Jupiter’s, but Saturn’s bands are much fainter and are much wider near the equator. The nomenclature used to describe these bands is the same as on Jupiter. Saturn’s finer cloud patterns were not observed until the flybys of the Voyager spacecraft during the 1980s. Since then, Earth-based telescopy has improved to the point where regular observations can be made. The composition of the clouds varies with depth and increasing pressure.
The winds on Saturn are the second fastest among the Solar System’s planets, after Neptune’s. Voyager data indicate peak easterly winds of 500 m/s (1,800 km/h).
Thermography has shown that Saturn’s south pole has a warm polar vortex, the only known example of such a phenomenon in the Solar System. Whereas temperatures on Saturn are normally −185 °C, temperatures on the vortex often reach as high as −122 °C, suspected to be the warmest spot on Saturn.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute and Kevin M. Gill
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Space Core gets me.
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happy new year! here’s a tune i’ve been goofing around with for… a while. technically it’s made for a character in something i’m writing, but i had a lot of fun with this so i thought i’d share!
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