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Curiosity Views Gediz Vallis !

NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover used its Mastcam to capture this mosaic of Gediz Vallis, the 3,646th Martian day, or sol, of the mission.

In the center of the valley in this image is a pile of boulders and debris that may have been swept there by flowing water billions of years ago.

Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS

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Insane view of the great Andromeda Galaxy — home to one trillion stars. 🌌

📹: FarLife1 via X

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The Andromeda Galaxy is a barred spiral galaxy and is the nearest major galaxy to the Milky Way.

It was originally named the Andromeda Nebula and is cataloged as Messier 31, M31, and NGC 224.

Andromeda has a D25 isophotal diameter of about 46.56 kiloparsecs (152,000 light-years) and is approximately 765 kpc (2.5 million light-years) from Earth.

The galaxy's name stems from the area of Earth's sky in which it appears, the constellation of Andromeda, which itself is named after the princess who was the wife of Perseus in Greek mythology.

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Misterioso anillo de polvo alrededor de Urano descubierto en datos redescubiertos de la Voyager 2

Los científicos han descubierto un nuevo misterio sobre los anillos de Urano enterrados en los datos de la icónica misión Voyager 2 de la NASA. La Voyager 2 sobrevoló Urano en enero de 1986, descubrió 10 lunas y dos anillos y se convirtió en la primera y hasta ahora única nave espacial en visitar el gigante de hielo. Uno de esos anillos, que los científicos llaman anillo zeta, ha frustrado a los…

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The celestial object of the day is Phobos!

It's Mars's largest moon with 21 km (13 mi), it orbits Mars at only 6,000 km (3,700 mi) and it gets closer by 1.8 meters every year, at that rate is expected to collide with Mars or form a planetary ring in about 30-50 million years!

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Soul Nebula

(Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA)

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Cassini-Huygens Last Dives (Illustration). NASA/ESA/JPL.

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NASA’s Juno spacecraft camera images processing

Learn more on the Mission Juno websites:  https://www.missionjuno.swri.edu / https://science.nasa.gov/mission/juno

Credit : NASA / JPL-Caltech /SwRI / MSSS / Jackie Branc

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NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute⁣

Saturn's moon Titan shows off its atmosphere in this image captured by Cassini, as the spacecraft passed by at a distance of 900,000 miles (1.4 million km). Titan is unique among moons in our solar system, being the only moon with a thick atmosphere, which is comprised mainly of nitrogen, small amounts of methane, and trace amounts of carbon-rich compounds which rain down on Titan's surface.⁣ ⁣ Titan is one of the most promising places in our solar system to look for life, with what is suspected to be a large ocean of liquid water hidden beneath its surface. Life on Titan would be very different than on Earth, though, with rivers and lakes of liquid methane strewn across its surface, an atmospheric pressure 60 times that of Earth, and a surface temperature of -290 degrees Fahrenheit or -179 degrees Celsius.⁣ ⁣ Image description: The Cassini spacecraft captures the night side of Saturn's largest moon and sees sunlight scattering through Titan's atmosphere, forming purple and gray rings. Titan appears primarily black, with a sliver of yellow highlighted against its atmosphere and the blackness of space.⁣ ⁣

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SOL - 3637

Visualization: Vladimir Jankijevic

Credit: Courtesy NASA/JPL-Caltech - https://mars.jpl.nasa.gov

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Titan, Saturn’s largest moon, looks quite small in comparison to the giant planet behind it in this natural color view from the Cassini-Huygens spacecraft. This image from Aug. 29, 2012, also shows seasonal changes occurring on Saturn; as spring comes to the northern Saturnian hemisphere, the azure blue seen fades, while winter in the south adds a bluish hue. This phenomenon is likely due to shifts in the intensity of ultraviolet light and the haze it produces.

Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute

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“On Titan the molecules that have been raining down like manna from heaven for the last 4 billion years might still be there largely unaltered deep-frozen awaiting the chemists from Earth”

― Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space

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"Hand of God"

Can you see the shape of a hand in this new X-ray image?

The hand might look like an X-ray from the doctor's office, but it is actually a cloud of material ejected from a star that exploded.

NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR, has imaged the structure in high-energy X-rays for the first time, shown in blue.

Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/McGill

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Eclipses para estudiar exoplanetas alrededor de sus estrellas anfitrionas

Una nueva y emocionante investigación realizada por astrónomos a descubierto un cielo lleno de estrellas eclipsadas por sus exoplanetas gigantes gaseosos. ¿Ese cielo nocturno estrellado? Está lleno de eclipses. @NASA_ Nuestra estrella, el Sol, en ocasiones une fuerzas con la Luna para ofrecernos a los terrícolas un espectacular eclipse solar, como el que será visible en partes de Estados…

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Mars

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

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Helix Nebula

(Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ.of Ariz.)

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