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16/12/2022

Strangest Exoplanet Ever found 😵🔥

Even through a Gas Giant, it is similar to some planets in our Solar System! This exoplanet is so close to its home star, WASP-127 - a K-Type star, that it completes an orbit around it in just a little over four days and temperatures at its surface surpass 1,000° C.

What distinguishes WASP-127b from other planets? Its density. While only being 1.4 times bigger than Jupiter, it’s 1/5 of Jupiter's mass, which makes it the least dense exoplanet ever found.

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16/12/2022

An HDR Moon capture, during a total solar eclipse in Wyoming. 🌖💫 This image is one of the most detailed depictions of the Moon ever taken, after an extraordinary amount of digital processing.
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15/12/2022

This Nicholas U. Mayall 4-meter Telescope image of NGC 5895.

Info:
NGC 5895 (other designations - MCG 7-31-43, ZWG 221.42, PGC 54366) is a spiral galaxy (Sc) in the constellation Bootes.

14/12/2022

This Very Large Telescope FORS2 image of Messier 99.

Wikipedia:
Messier 99 or M99, also known as NGC 4254, is a grand design spiral galaxy in the northern constellation Coma Berenices approximately 15,000,000 parsecs (49,000,000 light-years) from the Milky Way. It was discovered by Pierre Méchain on 17 March 1781. The discovery was then reported to Charles Messier, who included the object in the Messier Catalogue of comet-like objects. It was one of the first galaxies in which a spiral pattern was seen. This pattern was first identified by Lord Rosse in the spring of 1846.

13/12/2022

The past, present and future (??) of Mars!!🤯

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12/12/2022

As the name implies, this reflection nebula associated with the star Rigel looks suspiciously like a fairytale crone. Formally known as IC 2118 in the constellation Orion, the Witch Head Nebula glows primarily by light reflected from the star. The color of this very blue nebula is caused not only by blue color of its star, but also because the dust grains reflect blue light more efficiently than red. A similar physical process causes Earth's daytime sky to appear blue.

Image Credit: NASA/STScI Digitized Sky Survey/Noel Carboni

11/12/2022

IC 63 😍

The author of this photo is Astro Jim (Astrobin.com).

ESA Hubble:
IC 63 is being shaped by radiation from a nearby unpredictably variable star, Gamma Cassiopeiae, which is slowly eroding away the ghostly cloud of dust and gas. This celestial ghost makes the perfect backdrop for the upcoming feast of All Hallow's Eve — better known as Halloween.

07/11/2022

JWST could help hunt for habitable alien worlds 🔭

Astronomers have analyzed the distant Earth-like planet TRAPPIST-1e to develop a framework that will help scientists determine if any planets outside the solar system could harbor life or could be fit for human life.

Image credit: Mark Garlick/Science Photo Library/Getty Images

https://www.cosmosx.online/jwst-could-help-hunt-for-habitable-alien-worlds/

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05/11/2022

Time to say goodbye to NASA’s InSight Mars lander

After nearly four years spent on the Martian surface, NASA’s InSight lander is coming to the end of its life as the spacecraft’s power generation continues to decline because of dust blown on the lander’s solar panels. The InSight team is now taking steps to make sure the lander continues working as long as possible with what power remains.

Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

Read more - https://www.cosmosx.online/time-to-say-goodbye-to-nasas-insight-mars-lander/

05/11/2022

SLS returns to the pad for next Artemis launch attempt

NASA is targeting the next launch attempt of the Artemis I mission for Monday, Nov. 14 with liftoff of the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket carrying the Orion spacecraft planned during a 69-minute launch window that opens at 12:07 a.m. EST. Artemis I is an uncrewed flight test to launch SLS and send Orion around the Moon and back to Earth to thoroughly test its system before flights with astronauts.

Image Credit: Jordan Sirokie

Read more - https://www.cosmosx.online/sls-returns-to-the-pad-for-next-artemis-launch-attempt/

02/11/2022

5 intresting facts about earth

1. Earth is not flat, but it's not perfectly round either Earth has never been perfectly round. The planet bulges around the equator by an extra 0.3 percent as a result of the fact that it rotates about its axis. Earth's diameter from North to South Pole is 12,714 kilometers (7,900 miles), while thr...

23/07/2022

This Planewave CDK24 Telescope image of NGC 4568. The author of this image is Howard Trottier (astrobin.com).

Wikipedia:

NGC 4568 (other indications - UGC 7776, IRAS12340 + 1130, MCG 2-32-152, VCC 1676, ZWG 70.188, VV 219, KCPG 347B, PGC 42069) is a galaxy in the constellation Virgo.