Don't worry -- #JWST heard you -- here's aurora on #Uranus (heh)

📷 :https://flic.kr/p/2rXrWvK

#Aurora #SolarSystem #Space #Science #Astrophotography #astrodon #astronomy #Webb #NASA #ESA

2026-02-23 12:00:00 UTC (Delta: 2026-02-16)

MERCURY
- Distance (km): 124,813,606.68 km (-29,063,463.58 km)
- Distance (AU): 0.83 (-0.19)
- Light travel time: 6 min 56.33 s (-1 min 36.95 s)
- Orbital speed: 58.16 km/s (-0.38 km/s)

Image: Radar-bright Deposits near Mercury North Pole
Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington

#Mercury #Space #SolarSystem

#House with 2 floors 200 meters to the #sea #Salvador 🌊

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✨🔭 New observations of #Ganymede 🌖reveal a surprising similarity between the #auroras 🌌 on the #SolarSystem's largest #moon and those on #Earth 🌍. A team of space physicists has obtained new results suggesting that the fundamental physical processes that generate auroras are common to different celestial bodies.

🌍 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/400351529_Juno's_high-spatial-resolution_ultraviolet_observations_of_Ganymede's_auroral_patches_Constraints_on_the_magnetospheric_source_region

#auroq #SpacePhysics #Jupiter #PlasmaPhysics #Juno #JunoSpacecraft #magnetosphere

Thanks @Umbertogaetani for sharing 🙏 https://mastodon.uno/@Umbertogaetani/116113873863038999

A risky maneuver could send a spacecraft to interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS. Here's the plan

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.space.com/astronomy/comets/a-risky-maneuver-could-send-a-spacecraft-to-interstellar-comet-3i-atlas-heres-the-plan

2026-02-22 12:00:00 UTC (Delta: 2026-02-15)

PLUTO [ *1930 +2006 ]
- Distance (km): 5,432,343,309.76 km (-7,041,704.17 km)
- Distance (AU): 36.31 (-0.05)
- Light travel time: 5 h 2 min 0.35 s (-23.49 s)
- Orbital speed: 5.26 km/s (-0.00 km/s)

Image: The Icy Spider on Pluto
Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute

#Pluto #Space #SolarSystem

What's the point of a space station around the moon?

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.space.com/astronomy/moon/whats-the-point-of-a-space-station-around-the-moon

2026-02-21 12:00:00 UTC (Delta: 2026-02-14)

NEPTUNE
- Distance (km): 4,600,676,451.60 km (+9,571,989.68 km)
- Distance (AU): 30.75 (+0.06)
- Light travel time: 4 h 15 min 46.20 s (+31.93 s)
- Orbital speed: 5.47 km/s (-0.00 km/s)

Image: Neptune in False Color
Credit: NASA/JPL

#Neptune #Space #SolarSystem

THE WEEKLY SPIN
08/2026

#SolarSystem #OrbitalMechanics #Earth #Moon #Mars