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vanadiumvalor · 1 day

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Working on the next chapter of Solar House! Had to pin down some designs for moon that will be appearing in the upcoming episodes <3

#personification #gijinka #astronomy #space #furry #furry art #sfw furry #digitalart #oc #originalcharacter #solarhouse #character design #milky way fandom #moon #titan #enceladus #mimas

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wonders-of-the-cosmos · 10 months

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Saturn and Enceladus

Credit: Jason Major

#enceladus #encelado #saturn #saturno #cassini #space #astronomy #astronomia

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krakenmare · 5 months

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Saturn's active, ocean-bearing moon Enceladus sinks behind the giant planet in a farewell portrait from NASA's Cassini spacecraft (September 13, 2017)

#astronomy #krakenmare #astrophotography #solar system #outer space #nasa #space #thank you nasa #saturn #Enceladus #cassini huygens #cassini #satellite #saturn moon #2017

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livingforstars · 5 months

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Saturn's Cleanest Moon: Enceladus - November 25th, 1995.

"Enceladus orbits Saturn between the smaller Mimas and the larger Tethys. Enceladus is composed mostly of water ice and has the cleanest and purest ice surface in the Solar System. It's surface therefore appears nearly white. The surface also has many unusual groves and relatively few craters, like Jupiter's moon Ganymede. This indicates that the surface is young and/or newly reformed. To explain this, some astronomers speculate that Enceladus is susceptible to some sort of volcanic activity. Enceladus was originally discovered in 1789 by William Herschel."

#nasa #space #cosmos #universe #astronomy #astrophysics #astrophotography #enceladus

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pangeen · 1 year

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“ Imagine you are on Saturn's moon Enceladus “

// Astronomy Hub

#space #planets #earth #moon #Mars #Venus #Jupiter #mercury #saturn #enceladus #SolarSystem #galaxy #Galaxies #MilkyWay #universe #aesthetics #wanderlust #explore #follow #discover

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theofficialastronomy101 · 3 months

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Looking down at a plume on Enceladus. 30 miles above its surface. Saturns moon.

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forget-me-not-semicolon · 3 months

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Enceladus

#oc #enceladus #oc art

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quiltofstars · 7 months

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Saturn and a few of its moons on September 8, 2023 // Giacomo Russo

Those moons include: Titan, Dione, Enceladus, Tethys, and Rhea

#astronomy #astrophotography #solar system #planet #gas giant #saturn #saturn's rings #moon #saturnian moons #saturn's moons #titan #dione #enceladus #tethys #rhea

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mindblowingscience · 10 months

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Found on Saturn's moon Enceladus, the discovery raises the possibility that life could exist on the tiny frozen satellite. Compounds containing phosphorous were identified in vapor spewed out by Saturn's ocean moon Enceladus – the Solar System body with the largest ratio of liquid water by mass – by an international team led by planetary scientist Frank Postberg of the Free University of Berlin in Germany. The amounts found suggest there could be abundances more than 100 times higher than we have here on Earth. This means we have a new clue for understanding ocean worlds in the Solar System and beyond. And since phosphorus is one of the six elements considered critically crucial for life based on water and organic chemistry, its discovery significantly raises the prospects for life on Enceladus. "Phosphorus is an element essential for planetary habitability, but to date, it has not been detected in an ocean beyond Earth. Previous geochemical modeling suggested that phosphate might be scarce in the ocean of Enceladus and other icy ocean worlds," the researchers write in their paper.

#science #stem #astronomy #space #astrobiology #enceladus #phosphorus #search for life

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spaceadvances · 11 months

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The ring swirling around Saturn consists of chunks of ice and dust. Saturn itself is made of ammonia ice and methane gas. The little dark spot on Saturn is the shadow from Saturn's moon Enceladus 🪐

📷: Hubble Heritage Team (AURA/STScI/NASA/ESA)

#saturn #nasa #astronomy #solar system #astrophotography #astrophysics #hubble #james webb images #gas giant #enceladus #stsci #physics #space exploration

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thefirststarr · 4 months

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SPACEMAS DAY 20 ✨🪐🌎☄️☀️🌕

‼️ I can’t believe there’s only 5 more days of this!!! Make sure to send me any of your favourite images for a chance to be featured!! ‼️

Peering from the shadows, Saturn’s inner moon Enceladus is front and centre in this image from the Cassini spacecraft. North is up in the scene captured during November 2016 as Cassini's camera was pointed in a nearly sunward direction about 130,000 kilometers from the moon's bright crescent. In fact, the moon reflects over 90 percent of the sunlight it receives, giving its surface about the same reflectivity as fresh snow. Only about 500 kilometers in diameter, Enceladus is a surprisingly active moon. Data and images collected during Cassini's flybys have revealed water vapor and ice grains spewing from south polar geysers and evidence of an ocean of liquid water hidden beneath the moon's icy crust.

Image Credit & Copyright: NASA