The Ring Nebula (M57), is more complicated than it appears through a small telescope. The central ring is about one light-year across, but this remarkable exposure by the James Webb Space Telescope explores this popular nebula with a deep exposure in infrared light. Strings of gas, like eyelashes around a cosmic eye, are shown around the Ring in this digitally enhanced featured image in assigned colors. The long filaments may be caused by shadowing of the knots of dense gas in the nebula by light emitted within. The Ring Nebula is an elongated planetary nebula, a type of gas cloud created when a Sun-like star evolves to throw off its outer atmosphere to become a white dwarf star. The central oval in the Ring Nebula lies about 2,500 light-years away toward the constellation Lyra.
Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, JWST; Processing: Zi Yang Kong
It's a commission!! These three (and their human counterparts) are from top to bottom; Sophronia, Oberon, and Thindi. Sophronia and Oberon belong to @haptism and Thindi to @planetary!
A wonderful commission to work on with some gorgeous characters, thank you again for commissioning me. And everyone else, look upon these designs individually. haptism and planetary have great concepts and it was a blast working on them.
The rover has discovered "the mission's clearest evidence yet" of what NASA scientists believe to be "ancient water ripples," a fascinating new clue into the puzzle of Mars' ancient past.
The ripples suggest that the surrounding "sulfate-bearing unit," which Curiosity has been exploring since the fall of last year, was once covered in a shallow lake. Waves on the surface then stirred up sediment, the theory goes, leaving behind ghostly ripple-like textures in the rock.
It's an evocative discovery that has the Curiosity team in awe.
debated for a while who/what to post today but here's my Uni gal, Dess!
UNI-DES(troyer) is a known problem for other uni gals when she can prevent them from defensively growing AND enjoys snacking on not only other worlds but her fellow kin >;3c