seeing the photos from Webb up against photos from Hubble just makes me… I don’t even know like, wow! Look at that!
The planet Uranus. Credit: Mount Wilson Observatory (2009)
The north pole of Saturn, observed by the Cassini space probe on June 14, 2016. Assembled by Kevin Gill using various infrared filtered images.
Source: humanoidhistory
The full rotation of the Moon as seen by NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter.
First photos of Ultima Thule from New Horizon's New Year's fly-by. It is an object 1.5 billion kilometres past Pluto, and is the furthest object to be photographed by a spacecraft.
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Different angles of Saturn show it’s stunning rings as nothing more than a thin line. Enceladus also features in these images, one of the leading contenders for life outside of Earth.
Source - NASA/ESA, Cassini Via - astrodaily1 (instagram)
Dust, stars, and cosmic rays swirling around Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko, captured by the Rosetta probe. (Source)
*kicks the front door in* DO YOU SEE HOW GODDAMN FUCKING COOL THIS SHIT IS
WE HAVE VIDEO. FROM THE SURFACE OF A COMET. SENT BY A ROBOT.
ROSETTA PROBE YOU’RE AMAZING WE LOVE YOU
That cliff is a kilometer high. is Here’s what you’re actually looking at:
THANK YOU
i was wondering
Not only is this shit cool as hell but you gotta realize how unbelievably remarkable of a task this is and how hard it was to pull off.
Humans managed to send a tiny hunk of metal stuffed with electronics millions and millions and millions of miles away through this hostile, airless envionent to land (without breaking it!) on the equivalent of a dirty snowball shooting though outer space
That’s like shooting a bullet from LA to London and hitting a moving target that’s only one foot across, and having the bullet survive the ordeal unscathed.
Plus! We humans developed a way to videotape and transmit pictures from this snowball in space so we know what it’s like to stand the surface.
I mean, is that not mind blowingly amazing???
Cosmic Marble
“Pictured, Jupiter is seen from below where, surprisingly, the horizontal bands that cover most of the planet disappear into swirls and complex patterns. A line of white oval clouds is visible nearer to the equator. Recent results from Juno show that Jupiter’s weather phenomena can extend deep below its cloud tops, and that Jupiter’s magnetic field varies greatly with location.” (more at APOD/NASA)
Image Credit: NASA, Juno, SwRI, MSSS, Gerald Eichstädt & Seán Doran
Source: traverse-our-universe
Morning on Mars
6 Martian sunrises, as seen by the HiRISE orbiter. Once again, not artist’s renditions.
NOT ARTIST’S RENDITIONS
Oh my
