Uranus’ Icy Moon Miranda Wowed Scientists During The Voyager Encounter With Its Dramatically Fractured

Just so you know, you can always watch the Earth live from the ISS. Its really relaxing to me

Jupiter’s North Pole Unlike Anything Encountered in Solar System

NASA’s Juno spacecraft has sent back the first-ever images of Jupiter’s north pole, taken during the spacecraft’s first flyby of the planet with its instruments switched on. The images show storm systems and weather activity unlike anything previously seen on any of our solar system’s gas-giant planets.  “First glimpse of Jupiter’s north pole, and it looks like nothing we have seen or imagined before,” said Scott Bolton, principal investigator of Juno from the Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio. “It’s bluer in color up there than other parts of the planet, and there are a lot of storms. There is no sign of the latitudinal bands or zone and belts that we are used to – this image is hardly recognizable as Jupiter. We’re seeing signs that the clouds have shadows, possibly indicating that the clouds are at a higher altitude than other features.”

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS

Charon and Pluto: Strikingly Different Worlds

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VdB 141 Region Nebulosity by Jeffrey Weiss on Flickr.

NGC 2736: The Pencil Nebula

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M8 - Lagoon Nebula Up Close

June is “Lagoon Month” from my latitude.  The June and July New Moons will be dedicated to photographing this photogenic nebula.  I have booked a camping trip in early June, so I should be able to start capturing some more photons then! :)  Here’s my version with limited exposure time from 2013.

A storm on Saturn so gigantic it’s “eating” it’s own tail.

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The violent past of our galaxy’s black hole could help us solve a cosmic mystery

The supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy is pretty quiet now, but new research suggests that 6 million years ago it was raging and gobbling up matter. Scientists think it could explain a mysterious disappearance.

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