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Webb’s latest image is the clearest look at Neptune's rings in 30+ years, and our first time seeing them in infrared light. Take in Webb's ghostly, ethereal views of the planet and its dust bands, rings and moons. (Some of these rings have not been detected since Voyager 2 flew by in 1989!)

Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI

[marthajefferson]

The Shark Nebula

The Shark Nebula, LDN 1235, is a faint cloud of interstellar gas and dust located approximately 650 light-years from us in the constellation Cepheus. The image spans about halfof its actual length of about 15 light years.

Telescope: 16″ f3.75 Dream Scope Camera: FLI ML16803

[rosamunqpike]

planets: mercury

The messenger of the Gods.

[herowyn]

5 0    Y E A R S    A G O

[bettybrants]

v e n u s smiles not in a house of tears.

happy birthday @villanaelle

[ooh-love]

video

[pondmelody]

astronomy moodboards  ♡  pluto, the dwarf planet  •.★ 

url graphic for » @pltuo ♡

[astrosource]

“we're made of star stuff. we are a way for the cosmos to know itself.” — carl sagan

[willorcs]

space moodboard

[mini-nebulas]

Nature is more than a scientist, an engineer. It’s an artist on the grandest of scales and this is a masterpiece.

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A little-studied star, TYC 3203-450-1, upstages a galaxy in this Hubble Telescope image from December 2017. Both the star and the galaxy are within the Lizard constellation, Lacerta. However, the star is much closer than the much more distant galaxy. Astronomers studying distant objects call these stars “foreground stars” and they are often not very happy about them, as their bright light is contaminating the faint light from the more distant and interesting objects they actually want to study.

Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA

[rosamunqpike]

planets: saturn

She's a yellow pair of running shoes, a holey pair of jeans. she looks great in cheap sunglasses, she looks great in anything. She's a saturn with a sunroof with her hair blowing. She's a warm conversation I wouldn't miss for nothing. She's a fighter when she's mad and she's a lover when she's loving.

[herowyn]

Aldrin, Armstrong, and the moon.

[dracodormeins]

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A STAR IS BORN!

Behind the curtain of dust and gas in these “Cosmic Cliffs” are previously hidden baby stars, now uncovered by Webb. The image is divided horizontally by an undulating line between a cloudscape forming a nebula along the bottom portion and a comparatively clear upper portion. Speckled across both portions is a starfield, showing innumerable stars of many sizes. The smallest of these are small, distant, and faint points of light. The largest of these appear larger, closer, brighter, and more fully resolved with 8-point diffraction spikes. The upper portion of the image is blueish, and has wispy translucent cloud-like streaks rising from the nebula below. The orangish cloudy formation in the bottom half varies in density and ranges from translucent to opaque. The stars vary in color, the majority of which have a blue or orange hue. The cloud-like structure of the nebula contains ridges, peaks, and valleys – an appearance very similar to a mountain range. Three long diffraction spikes from the top right edge of the image suggest the presence of a large star just out of view.

Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI