Trifid Nebula, 2024-06-06, ZWO ASI2600MC Pro, 5x180s. Celestron 8SE, ZWO AM5 mount, f/6.3 reducer. Live Stacked with SharpCap. Final stack with ASTAP.
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Here are 9 images of Jupiter taken annually under the NASA OPAL (Outer Planet Atmospheres Legacy) program from 2015 to 2024, with approx. true color.
Hubble's sharp images track clouds and measure the winds, storms, and vortices, in addition to monitoring the size, shape, and behavior of the Great Red Spot (GRS).
https://science.nasa.gov/missions/hubble/nasas-hubble-celebrates-decade-of-tracking-outer-planets/
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Encountering Neptune in 1989, NASA’s Voyager mission completed humankind’s first close-up exploration of the four giant outer planets of our solar system. Collectively, since their launch in 1977, the twin Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 spacecraft discovered that Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune were far more complex than scientists had imagined. There was a lot […]
Trifid Nebula, 2024-06-06, ZWO ASI2600MC Pro, 5x180s. Celestron 8SE, ZWO AM5 mount, f/6.3 reducer. Live Stacked with SharpCap. Final stack with ASTAP.
Through most of history, there was an unbreakable rule about studying the heavens: You can look, but you can’t touch.
Missions like NASA's OSIRIS-REx have broken that rule, and changed the way we think about the universe.
My latest Invisible Universe column: https://invisibleuniverse.substack.com/p/bringing-it-all-back-home #science #space #astronomy #history