Cassini: Pandora orbiting just beyond the outer edge of Saturn's F ring (February 18, 2005)
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Gorgeous latest Nasa pic 👀 (combining James Webb and Hubble telescopes images). (Yes, you're thinking of what I'm thinking :D, fuck yeah.)
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Hoag’s Object, a nearly perfect “ring galaxy” captured by the Hubble Space Telescope (Credit: NASA)
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Uranus
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope recently trained its sights on unusual and enigmatic Uranus, an ice giant that spins on its side. Webb captured this dynamic world with rings, moons, storms, and other atmospheric features – including a seasonal polar cap. The image expands upon a two-color version released earlier this year, adding additional wavelength coverage for a more detailed look.
With its exquisite sensitivity, Webb captured Uranus’ dim inner and outer rings, including the elusive Zeta ring – the extremely faint and diffuse ring closest to the planet. It also imaged many of the planet’s 27 known moons, even seeing some small moons within the rings.
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Stepping out on the front porch. Astronaut David Scott opens the hatch to check out the view during Apollo 9, March 1969. In this pic taken by fellow astronaut Rusty Schweickart, ‘Gumdrop’, the Command Service Module is docked with ‘Spider’, the Lunar Module. A9 was the 1st flight incorporating all Apollo spacecraft components. The 10 day mission was the 2nd launched by a Saturn V rocket.
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“17,700 light-years from Earth, a group of dead stars known as "spider pulsars" are obliterating companion stars in their orbit with winds of energetic particles.”
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