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MPS Göttingen Mar 28

Despite rainy weather, our #AstronomyDay is well under way – with lectures, planetarium shows and fun for kids. @unigoettingen
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#Astronomietag #Astronomietag2026 #FPG

Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research Mar 28

Despite rainy weather, our #AstronomyDay is well under way – with lectures, planetarium shows and fun for kids. @[email protected] @[email protected] #Astronomietag #Astronomietag2026 #FPG

MPS Göttingen Mar 4

In #Goettingen, the upcoming Astronomy Day on March 28th will offer lectures, planetarium shows and skygazing. Topics will be #moon, #planets, #exoplanets for kids, #Voyager and much more! In German. More info here: https://www.mps.mpg.de/astronomietag2026
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AkaSci 🛰️May 19, 2024

Next on #AstronomyDay is this strange looking lenticular galaxy NGC 4753 by #Hubble.

Those are dust lanes twisting around the galactic nucleus and are likely the result of a merger with a dwarf galaxy about 1.3 billion years ago.

The gas and dust in the galactic disk got twisted by "differential precession" and are seen as the complex shapes seen edge-on from earth.

Most of the unseen mass in the galaxy lies in a slightly flattened, spherical halo of dark matter.

https://science.nasa.gov/missions/hubble/hubble-views-cosmic-dust-lanes/
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Hubble Views Cosmic Dust Lanes

Featured in this new image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope is a nearly edge-on view of the lenticular galaxy NGC 4753. Lenticular galaxies have an

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AkaSci 🛰️May 18, 2024

Let's celebrate #AstronomyDay with this image taken today by Mars rover Perseverance's SHERLOC Autofocus and Context Imager (ACI).

This is the first such image of a rock sample since Dec 16, 2023, when the dust cover of the camera and laser spectroscopy instrument got stuck. It is still stuck, but in an open position and its auto-focus mechanism is nonoperational.

The camera took a sequence of images from different distances; the middle ones are in focus.

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https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/multimedia/raw-images/
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