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wayti-blog · 10 months

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New image from James Webb Space Telescope reveals astonishing Saturn and its rings

(Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Matt Tiscareno (SETI Institute), Matt Hedman (University of Idaho), Maryame El Moutamid (Cornell University), Mark Showalter (SETI Institute), Leigh Fletcher (University of Leicester), Heidi Hammel (AURA), J. DePasquale (STScI))

“Get ready to be amazed by the latest James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) image. Saturn's iconic rings seem to glow eerily in this incredible infrared picture, which also unveils unexpected features in Saturn's atmosphere.

This image serves as context for an observing program that will test the telescope's capacity to detect faint moons around the planet and its bright rings. Any newly discovered moons could help scientists put together a more complete picture of the current system of Saturn, as well as its past.

Methane gas absorbs almost all the sunlight falling on the atmosphere at this picture's specific infrared wavelength (3.23 microns). As a result, Saturn's familiar striped patterns aren't visible because the methane-rich upper atmosphere blocks our view of the primary clouds.”

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#astronomy #universe #space #saturn #infrared #solar system #james webb telescope #james webb space telescope #JWST #wavelengths #visible spectrum #atmosphere #magnetic field #rotation

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asjjohnson · 1 year

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The ability to fly would open up a new dimension to explore (in the mathematical-physical sense—we already know Danny had opened one up in the other sense). Think of how much Danny would notice that no one else would?

Think of bees. (Not so much birds, because we see birds all the time, and also because they don't seem quite as graceful and maneuverable as bees.) When I did a search for how high bees can fly, I found something that said bees could fly higher than Mount Everest (little edit: may've misunderstood what it meant. They might not've been found flying that high after all, just that 'they could'). Bees can go anywhere they want, just for fun.

We as humans tend to (for the most part) view the world as six feet high. Anything six feet or under, we know about (or possibly up to eight feet. But it's not much higher than our height). And we don't really realize we're thinking this way.

Sure, we can look upward, we can see treetops from a distance, we can see what the sky looks like. But it's from the perspective of looking up from a distance. Our worldview is colored by looking up from six feet or less.

It's a flat surface. Despite us knowing it's not flat, we don't really internalize it as being 3D and navigable. And we also don't realize what's up there. Who would ever imagine there were bees buzzing around the top of a 200 foot tree? To get to flowers we didn't even notice were up there?

And, yeah, we have planes, but they fly in a set path and you can only look down at the very distant ground. Helicopters are probably more similar, but not many people fly or ride those.

But Danny... after the accident, he would've started out sticking close to the ground a lot, but as he started getting more comfortable with the ability to fly, his worldview probably would've changed gradually. From his preconceived idea of 'the world is six feet or less' to 'the world is spacious and easily explored and so very 3D'.

There's an episode where he's vacuuming the living room ceiling—as though he thinks his parents will notice that it's cleaner than before. And though I understand the 'I have to clean everything so I don't get in trouble' impulse better than I should, there's a chance it's partly from Danny seeing the house differently than before. The ceiling becomes just another wall for him. ...One that he might clean often when he has cleaning chores, because he's going to notice all those spiderwebs and cobwebs, and the little bugs gathering in the light fixtures.

(...He probably would realize the ground is also navigable at some point, too. Think of all the tunnels and moles and snakes and other creatures he'll see, and all the plant roots and such.)

#danny phantom #danny fenton #just some thoughts #it's not really a 'what if' idea because it just... is.#asj post #I'd looked at some red buds on a maple tree using binoculars and kinda thought aloud 'I wonder what pollinates maple flowers'.#Because I knew maples had flowers because I'd seen something about it online once. ...I hadn't really realized it before then.#And my dad said probably Honey Bees. And I was like... 'bees fly that high?'#When my dad said he guessed so; I said I've always only seen them around this high (and put my hand at shin-level).#So... that's what made me realize there's a lot I just don't realize exists. From only living in a world near my height and below.#Planted to the ground.#...There was a post I saw awhile ago about people with weird ideas. One was about an illustration showing people standing on top of #the Earth and a person had been surprised because they thought we'd lived inside the Earth.#And actually... I thought the person could've been partially right. We don't live On Top of the Earth. We live under the atmosphere.#We're stuck halfway inside it. Under the layers of atmosphere but above the solid layers. Actually we're on the teeny tiny Crust layer.#I thought it was weird because when we talk about gas giants like Jupiter and Saturn we don't measure them based on their core size.#We measure them based on the size of their atmosphere.#So yeah we actually do live inside the Earth and not on top of it.#There was also a post I saw with a closeup of Saturn. Those clouds looked so 3D and thick and invitingly explorable. They looked bottomless #my search engine had answered the bee question wrong. but I did find something that said they'd definitely found Flies over 19000 ft.'#Not as high as Everest but still really high.

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posthumanwanderings · 10 months

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Relaxing Sega Saturn Music (200 songs)

#Sega Saturn music #Sega Saturn #Zabel VGM #VGM mix #relaxing VGM #relaxing game music #atmospheric VGM #atmospheric game music #sleep music #click hyperlink for playlist

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greenfiend · 10 months

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Every time I see an article about the Titan submersible I get low key excited because I see the word “Titan” and I think…

Oh people are finally talking about the coolest moon in our solar system????

Then I’m like oh… never mind… 😞

#Titan #Saturn #outer space #moon #Titan (moon) your day will come #I mean you’re out here existing with lakes and an atmosphere AND a great view of Saturn

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wallpaper-inside-my-heart · 4 months

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💙Smoshblr December Asks Day 30💛

top 3 favourite planets 🌌

Saturn! 🪐-> It's just so pretty! Like look at its rings!

2. Neptune! 💙-> such a gorgeous blue colour!

3. Venus! 🧡 -> Our beautiful morning/evening"star"

-> Fun fact: Did you know that you can tell if you are looking at a star or planet, by whether or not it "blinks"? If it blinks/twinkles it's a star and if the light remains consistent then it is a planet! (That's have you can easily spot Venus most nights! 😊)

#I'm a big astronomy girlie so I just had to include this question in here somehow 😹💜#I could prob talk for hours about any of these outside of comments on their looks #cause the formation of all the different planets #their atmosphere composition #their moons!! etc etc is sooo incredibly fascinating to me #also has anyone else ever seen saturn from a telescope?! it somehow feels so fake to me to actually see a clear picture of it from earth :O #smoshblr december asks

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ye-olde-trojan-horse · 11 months

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Do you know any cool space facts? After your last post I'm just thinking about space.

DO I KNOW ANY COOL SPACE FACTS?!

FUCK YEAH I DO.

if you put remus lupin on saturn, he wouldn’t get much time (if any) in human form.

that’s because just this month, 62 newly discovered moons were announced! this now makes it the planet in our solar system with the most moons (as far as we know) and the only one with over 100!

not a very werewolf friendly vacation destination.

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#it’s atmosphere isn’t werewolf friendly either #it’s mostly hydrogen and helium #maybe choose somewhere else #for your holiday #a cabin in the woods #or a nice beach or something #werewolves #saturn #space facts #maybe I should make space facts a thing #a reoccurring thing #although that sounds like commitment #which is scary #hmmmm #nathara is active? what.#remus lupin #marauders era

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realspaceships · 1 year

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Crewed Mars Mission on Philip Bono's Mars Glider

#youtube #hazegrayart #Mars Glider #Phillip Bono #Mars #planetary exploration #what if #did it use 6 Saturn V first stages for boosters #Big Spaceship #realistic spaceship #I think Bono expected Mars to have a slightly thicker atmosphere than what it does have

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grgie · 8 months

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i've been listening to sleeping at last's astronomy collection recently whilst i study because it is heavenly and mostly instrumental but man is it making me wanna get back into listening to his podcast about how he makes his music. like i dont have enough podcasts to be listening to already.

#like i just started worst idea of all time (fast and furious only my spotify keeps crashing if i try going back further)#and im behind on steeplechase #and a bunch of others #but dammit that man puts SO MUCH thought into his music and the astronomy ones are the best bc he makes it all relate to the event #like the eclipse one is the exact length the eclipse was #and cassini's death uses the saturn meoldy bc it died in saturns atmosphere #i love hearing peoples creative process!!!#also he has a very soft voice which is nice #helena talks to the void

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mannlibrary · 2 years

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Size of the planets from Astronomy for students and general readers. Simon Newcomb. 1880. https://newcatalog.library.cornell.edu/catalog/5431970

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mushmiyy · 2 years

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planet parade 24.06.2022

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lakesbian · 1 year

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least favorite genre of tumblr post is “painting of space that is extremely obviously a painting being passed off as a real photograph and 50k people responding to it with Woah.....Space is so beautiful....” we learned nothing from alexandria’s genesis.

#no that is not a picture of saturn's atmosphere when was the last time you people saw a photograph #like. of anything.

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allpleasuer · 9 months

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About the Planet Saturn

About the Planet Saturn: A Journey Through the Gas Giant’s Mysteries ALL PLEASUER Welcome to our exploration of the fascinating planet Saturn, the sixth planet from the Sun and the second-largest in our Solar System. This blog post will delve into the intriguing aspects of this gas giant, from its composition primarily of hydrogen and helium, to its iconic rings made of billions of particles of…

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t-shirtlina12 · 10 months

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Minimal Solar

#Venus #Mars #the solar system #outer space #the atmosphere #Saturn #Neptune #Jupiter #Solar System #stars #Asteroids #comets

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bliptype · 11 months

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If Saturn was our moon, at the same distance away as the moon, it would look like this

#saturn #planets #space #observation #comparison #what if #moon #earth #sky #view #clouds #atmosphere

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without-ado · 5 months

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The night side of Saturn's largest moon, Titan. Sunlight scatters through Titan's atmosphere, forming purple and gray rings l NASA Cassini

#nasa #cassini #saturn #titan #space #astrophotography #astronomy #stars #planets #universe #galaxy #solar system #sky

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nasa · 10 months

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Of course Saturn brought its ring light.

On June 25, 2023, our James Webb Space Telescope made its first near-infrared observations of Saturn. The planet itself appears extremely dark at this infrared wavelength, since methane gas absorbs almost all the sunlight falling on the atmosphere. The icy rings, however, stay relatively bright, leading to Saturn’s unusual appearance in this image.

This new image of Saturn clearly shows details within the planet’s ring system, several of the planet’s moons (Dione, Enceladus, and Tethys), and even Saturn’s atmosphere in surprising and unexpected detail.

These observations from Webb are just a hint at what this observatory will add to Saturn’s story in the coming years as the science team delves deep into the data to prepare peer-reviewed results.

Download the full-resolution image, both labeled and unlabeled, from the Space Telescope Science Institute.

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#NASA #Saturn #James Webb Space Telescope #spaceblr #glow #planet #space #JWST #planets #universe #astroblr

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