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Ceres !
With a diameter of 940 km, Ceres is both the largest of the asteroids and the only dwarf planet inside Neptune’s orbit. It is the 25th-largest body in the Solar System within the orbit of Neptune
“Solar Flare”
Courtesy: Pixabay
James Webb Telescope’s stunning image of Jupiter !
NASA scientists have also released new shots of the solar system’s biggest planet, describing the results as “quite incredible”.
The James Webb Telescope took the photos back in July, capturing unprecedented views of Jupiter’s northern and southern lights, and swirling polar haze. Jupiter’s Great Red Spot, a storm big enough to swallow Earth, stands out brightly alongside countless smaller storms.
One wide-field picture is particularly dramatic, showing the faint rings around the planet, as well as two tiny moons against a glittering background of galaxies.
“We’ve never seen Jupiter like this. It’s all quite incredible,” said planetary astronomer Imke de Pater, of the University of California, Berkeley, who helped lead the observations.
“We hadn’t really expected it to be this good, to be honest,” she added in a statement.
The infrared images were artificially coloured in blue, white, green, yellow, and orange, according to the US-French research team, to make the features stand out.
AP/NASA
From the surface of Mars, astronomers caught a rare moment — Earth, Jupiter, and Venus sharing the same Martian sky.
Earth shows up as a tiny, faint dot, a quiet reminder of how far away “home” looks from another world.
Venus shines strong, its thick clouds reflecting sunlight like a bright space lantern.
And then there’s Jupiter — massive, steady, unshaken, glowing far past the inner planets like a silent guardian of the sky.
This alignment helps scientists follow planetary movement, but it also gives a heavy feeling in your chest.
Seeing Earth from Mars doesn’t just change the view… it changes you.
Suddenly, our planet isn’t a place. It’s a distant spark floating in endless space.
Courtesy: Babah Demi
SNR 0509 !
A delicate sphere of gas floats in the depths of space. The pristine shell, or bubble, is the result of gas that is being shocked by the expanding blast wave from a supernova.
Called SNR 0509-67.5 (or SNR 0509 for short), the bubble is the visible remnant of a powerful stellar explosion in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), a small galaxy about 160,000 light-years from Earth.
NASA/ESA/Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)
Global Mars in colour !
This is a simulated view of Mars from a vantage point 2500 km above the colossal Valles Marineris canyon system, with enhanced colour and contrast (at this relatively low altitude, the planet’s polar caps are not visible). It is a composite of red, green and blue filter mosaics with the colour band values stretched individually, and has a spatial resolution of 2 km per pixel (although higher resolution data products are possible and already in the works). The image does not show the true beige to brown colours of Mars as seen from orbit – the contrast of each colour channel is stretched to highlight variations.
Darker grey-toned areas of Mars represent grey-black basaltic sands of volcanic origin; lighter patches show clay and sulphate minerals; and the large scar across the planet’s face is Valles Marineris.
Credit: ESA/DLR/FU Berlin/G. Michael
Copper Titan
Andrew McCarthy Photography !
Black Planet
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