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By Jeremiah

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astronomicalwonders:

The Pleiades Cluster seen in Infrared

Known to the Ancient Greeks as the ‘Seven Sisters’, the Pleiades is one of many star clusters that are visible to the naked eye and have been observed by humans for thousands of years. This particular image of the cluster shows its associated dust - known as Merope Nebula or NGC 1435 - which is particularly spectacular in the infrared. The ‘Nebulosity’ of the Pleiades is caused by surrounding dust reflecting the light of the hot, young stars within the cluster.

Credit: NASA/Spitzer/Wikipedia

Spirituality and Earth

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just–space:

Andromeda’s Core

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sci-universe:

Mars is now known as the planet who lost an ocean’s worth of water. According to new results published today, about 4 billion years ago a primitive ocean on Mars held more water than Earth’s Arctic Ocean. Above’s an artist’s impression showing how Mars may have looked.

An international team of scientists used European Southern Observatoy’s Very Large Telescope, along with instruments at the W. M. Keck Observatory and the NASA Infrared Telescope Facility, to monitor the atmosphere of the planet and map out the properties of the water in different parts of Mars’s atmosphere over a six-year period. read more here
illustration credit: ESO/M. Kornmesser/N. Risinger (skysurvey.org)

nevver:

Pillars and Jets in the Pelican Nebula

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zubat:

Wherever Hubble looks, no matter how “empty” a portion of space appears to be, distant galaxies lurk. In this observation, the space telescope peered deep into the outermost reaches of the universe to look at the detail of two primordial galaxies billions of light-years away. Called Zw I 136, the pair (left) don’t appear to conform to a well-ordered spiral shape. They are instead gravitationally interacting, pulling at one another’s stars.

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janimalia:

Io & Jupiter | Cassini, January 1, 2001

DANG IO

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jtotheizzoe:

humanoidhistory:

“RELATIVE SIZES OF THE PLANETS” — A) Mercury. B) Venus. C) Earth and Moon. D) Mars. H) Uranus. Saturn and Jupiter are too big and awesome for letters. From The Beauty of the Heavens: A Pictorial Display of the Astronomical Phenomena of the Universe, 1842, by Charles F. Blunt.

(ETH Bibliothek)

Cool to see planetary diagrams from before Neptune was even discovered (that happened in 1846, although Neptune’s presence was predicted in 1845 after people noticed something tugging on Uranus… now is when you giggle)

Fun fact: Neptune has only completed one orbit since its discovery.