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22/04/2025

Celebrating Earth Day with the breathtaking and iconic Blue Marble picture of Earth from the 1972 Apollo 17 mission. This timeless photograph is one of the most widely distributed images in existence.

14/02/2025

NASA has just made a groundbreaking discovery—a new planet beyond Neptune that wasn’t there before! This mysterious find could change how we understand our solar system and the universe itself. Is this proof of an unknown force at work? ...

30/12/2024

Incredibly detailed photograph of our Sun ☀️

28/12/2024

The cluster NGC 602 is situated in the Small Magellanic Cloud, 200000 lightyears far.
The James Webb Space Telescope found there a population of brown dwarf candidates… outside the Milky Way‼️
See this amazing image by JWST

18/12/2024

The night sky is an illusion

10/12/2024

Oct. 14, 2024, launch of NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft, which will travel 1.8 billion miles to Jupiter and its icy moon Europa. The Europa Clipper spacecraft lifted off from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 9:06 a.m. PDT (12:06 p.m. EDT).

📸: NASA/JPL-Caltech

10/12/2024

WEBB • Identifies Tiniest Free-Floating Brown Dwarf
10.12.24

• This image from the NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera) instrument on NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope shows the central portion of the star cluster IC 348. Astronomers combed the cluster in search of tiny, free-floating brown dwarfs: objects too small to be stars but larger than most planets. They found three brown dwarfs that are less than eight times the mass of Jupiter. The smallest weighs just three to four times Jupiter, challenging theories for star formation.

The wispy curtains filling the image are interstellar material reflecting the light from the cluster’s stars – what is known as a reflection nebula. The material also includes carbon-containing molecules known as polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, or PAHs. The bright star closest to the center of the frame is actually a pair of type B stars in a binary system, which are the most massive stars in the cluster. Winds from these stars may help sculpt the large loop seen on the right side of the field of view.

- Brown dwarfs are objects that straddle the dividing line between stars and planets. They form like stars, growing dense enough to collapse under their own gravity, but they never become dense and hot enough to begin fusing hydrogen and turn into a star. At the low end of the scale, some brown dwarfs are comparable with giant planets, weighing just a few times the mass of Jupiter.

•• Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI

25/11/2024

The Dolphin-Head Nebula is a bubble-like cosmic cloud of ionized hydrogen. It's 60 light years wide and 1,875 light years from Earth.

14/11/2024

06/11/2024

NASA has released 25 never-before-seen space images on the Chandra X-Ray Observatory's 25th birthday. They represent the wide range of objects that the teles...

28/10/2024