please pass this around to all of your classmates, i don’t want anyone saying they didn’t get to vote
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Context: I have a theory, and i want to see if im right. for simplicity, its just the big three + the 'other' option. Apologies for no vanilla extract, i want actual data this time lol.
remember to reblog for a higher sample size!
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The last photos I took of the Space Sampler were seven years ago... a lot has happened since 2016, but my first pattern still holds a special place in my heart :)
[space sampler tag here] [pattern here]
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The Crab Nebula
August’s Space Object of the Month is the Crab Nebula, the remnant of a supernova observed by Chinese astronomers in the year 1054. Though they didn’t understand what they were seeing at the time, we now know they were witnessing was the death of a star 6,500 light-years from Earth. The supernova was visible during the day for an entire month, and remained visible at night for a further two years before it faded away.
At the centre of the nebula there is a rapidly spinning neutron star, 30 kilometres in diameter, emitting pulses of radiation as it spins on its axis. This pulsar, discovered in 1968 by Jocelyn Bell, ejects twin beams of radiation resulting in the star appearing to pulse at a rate of 30 times per second.
The nebula itself spans six light-years across, and is expanding at a rate of about 1,500 kilometres per second – 0.5% the speed of light.
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Nature: Heavenly Bodies
Sometimes in astronomy, a heavenly body has been virtually invisible until a single observer detects its presence and points it out to his colleagues, who then see it with increasing clarity. Perhaps a myriad of unknown senses are only awaiting our consciousness.
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GUYS oh my gosh I stumbled upon this tab on the NASA site and—
What did Hubble see on your birthday?? It gives you a picture and information! It's so neat!
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lumped the astronauts and lunar phases together for ease, feel free to specify which is your favorite if you’d like.
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Pumpkin space latte, anyone? ☕
Hubble captured this festive array of stars, Terzan 12, found in the Milky Way about 15,000 light-years from Earth. The stars in this cluster are bound together by gravity in a sphere-like shape and are shrouded in gas and dust. As the starlight travels through that gas and dust to Earth, blue light scatters, leaving the redder wavelengths to come through.
Download the full-resolution image here.
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Surface photograph of Ryugu 162173 asteroid. Taken by JAXA's Hayabusa 2 space probe.
Image can also be found here.
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On 03/08/2024, the Hubble Space Telescope spotted the galaxy NGC 4423, a galaxy around 55 million light years away from Earth in the Virgo constellation. Here’s the article NASA posted:
NGC 4423
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Happy moon landing day!!
Hello, lovely! Whoever sent this, my little space and history loving heart thanks you! ♥️
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