Meteorologist Austen Onek"This is a cliff.
It's 1,000 metres tall.
And it's on a comet.
996,480,038 km away from us.
📸 ESA/Rosetta spacecraft/ Stuart Atkinson" -- @MAstronomers
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"A #giantblackhole has destroyed a star and is now using that star's debris to pummel another star or smaller black hole about once every 48 hours! This new result helps link two cosmic phenomena that astronomers previously were unsure were unconnected."
"Get pulled in to this black hole image. You read that right!
@NASAWebb’s Mid-Infrared Instrument captured a supermassive black hole gobbling gas and dust. The energy it emits as it feeds makes the spiral galaxy’s core shine like a six-pointed pink "star"" @nasa
NASA’s Webb Provides Another Look Into Galactic Collisions - NASA Science
Smile for the camera! An interaction between an elliptical galaxy and a spiral galaxy, collectively known as Arp 107, seems to have given the spiral a happier outlook thanks to the two bright “eyes” and the wide semicircular “smile.” The region has been observed before in infrared by NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope in 2005, however […]
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"Seen toward the royal northern constellation of Cepheus, the dusty, dark nebula is part of a Milky Way molecular cloud some 1,200 light-years distant."
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"This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the spiral galaxy IC 4709 located around 240 million light-years away in the southern constellation Telescopium. Hubble beautifully captures its faint halo and swirling disk filled with stars and dust bands. The compact region at its core might be the most remarkable sight. It holds an active galactic nucleus (AGN)."
https://www.nasa.gov/image-article/hubble-examines-a-busy-galactic-center/
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"#NASA’s #Voyager2 was launched 47 years ago today.
The only spacecraft to visit all four outer planets — Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune — it’s currently over 12 billion miles away, cruising through interstellar space.
Relive Voyager 2’s journey..."
- NASA Sun & Space
https://eyes.nasa.gov/apps/solar-system/#/story/voyager_grand_tour
#SomewhereDeepInTheNight -- Plumes rising off the surface of Io as the result of volcanic activity, viewed side-on here by the Juno spacecraft.
Check out more of this month's coolest space pictures: -- #ThePlanetarySociety
Austen Onek#SomewhereDeepInTheNight "What does this aurora look like to you? While braving the cold to watch the skies above northern Canada early one morning in 2013, a most unusual aurora appeared. The aurora definitely appeared to be shaped like something, but what? Two ghostly possibilities recorded by the astrophotographer were "witch" and "goddess of dawn", but please feel free to suggest your own Halloween-enhanced impressions"
#SomewhereDeepInTheNight #LordOfThePlanetaryRings "Saturn’s rings gild the jewel of our solar system, and their shininess has helped astronomers pin down their age. Data from NASA’s Cassini mission showed how fast dust has been pelting the Saturnian system, revealing that for the rings to have remained as shiny and dust-free as they are, they can be only as much as 400 million years old, much younger than the planet itself."
https://eos.org/articles/saturns-shiny-rings-may-be-pretty-young
