*sees Moon* *remembers Outer Space* Nice

Molten iron rain falls through the skies of scorching-hot exoplanet

WASP-76b is a hot Jupiter exoplanet discovered during 2013 that can be found in the constellation Pisces. It orbits a F-type star (WASP-76) and has a size 0.92 that of Jupiter’s mass. In March 2020, it was speculated the temperature on the planet could reach 2,400 °C on the hot side, hot enough to vaporize neutral iron. If the night side of WASP-76b had temperatures down to at least 1,400 °C, the iron may condense then rain down as hot liquid iron on its surface.

The atmosphere of WASP-76b is cloudy and mostly grey, with a significant amount of thermal incandescence.

We are nothing but space dust trying to find its way back to the stars.

Love And Space Dust (via story-dj)

Caldwell 92 by NASA Hubble

Your fave is problematic: Galaxy GN-Z11

this old object is the oldest fucking galaxy that we have discovered thus far

thanks Hubble space telescope

Gn-z11 is 13.4 billion years old… fuck

now you’re like, wtf, the universe is only 13.8 millions years old??? YES. This galaxy was observed by hubble as it was just 400 million years after the Big Bang

at this point in time, a cosmological baby

tricks people into thinking that she is 13.4 billion light years away… think again

Gn-z11 is actually 38 BILLION LIGHT YEARS AWAY

how can that be, you say, in a universe that’s “only” 13.8 billion years old? is the speed of light not the fastest thing in the universe?

well, given that Gn-z11 is so immensely old, and the universe is always expanding, space has expanded to a distance of 38 billion light years during the 13.4 billion years it took the light of Gn-z11 to reach us

keep in mind that when we observe old objects like the universe, we see them as they were then

time travel, so to speak

summary: time traveller, voyaged far, very wise, maybe a forest witch

Saturn and its rings captured by Hubble in Ultraviolet light.

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Send a space thing for questions

Planets: Life

Mercury: What’s your full name? 

Venus: What’s your first language? 

Earth: Where’s your home? 

Mars: What’s your sexuality? 

Jupiter: Do you have any siblings? 

Saturn: Any pets? 

Uranus: What’s your hobby? 

Neptune: When’s your birthday? 

Pluto: What time is it right now where you are? 

Moon: What are you currently studying/hope to study? 

Stars: Experiences

Sun: Have you ever had alcohol? 

Sirius: Have you ever failed a class? 

Rigel: Have you ever gone on a rollercoaster? 

Deneb: Have you ever been out of your home country? 

Arcturus: Have you cried out of something other than sadness? 

Betelgeuse: What’s something you can never forget about? 

Aldebaran: What’s something you care desperately about? 

Canopus: Have you ever broken a bone? 

Bellatrix: Have you ever been forced to lie/keep a secret? 

Alphard: Have you ever lost a friend?

Vega: What’s something you’ve done that you wish you hadn’t? 

Constellations: Favourites

Centaurus: Favourite holiday?

Orion: Favourite month?

Cassiopeia: Favourite book?

Delphinus: Favourite study?

Hercules: Favourite instrument?

Gemini: Favourite song?

Pegasus: Favourite place to be?

Libra: Favourite colour? 

Phoenix: Favourite thing to wear?

Aries: Favourite movie? 

Cygnus: Favourite weather? 

Hydra: Favourite sound? 

Galaxies: Love/Friends  

Milky Way: Who’s your oldest friend?  

Andromeda: Do you consider yourself social? 

Black Eye Galaxy: Do you believe in love at first sight? 

Cartwheel Galaxy: When was your first kiss? 

Cigar Galaxy: How’s your flirting skills? 

Comet Galaxy: Have you ever had to leave a relationship because someone changed too much? 

Pinwheel Galaxy: Would you date the last person you talked to? 

Sombrero Galaxy: Do you have a crush right now? 

Bode’s Galaxy: Have you ever had a secret admirer? 

Sunflower Galaxy: Would you date/make friends with someone out of pity? 

Tadpole Galaxy: Would you deny a relationship/friendship? 

Whirlpool Galaxy: Have you ever cried over a breakup? 

Other stuff: Wishes 

Comet: What’s your big dream? 

Asteroid: What does your dream life look like? 

Meteor: What’s something you wish you could tell, but can’t? 

Nebula: If you could undo one thing in your life, what would it be? 

Shooting Star: If you could bring back one thing, what would it be? 

Pulsar: What do you hope to do in the next 10 years? 

Supernova: What’s one thing you want to do before you die? 

Quasar: If you could spend the rest of your life with only one person, who would it be? 

Wormhole: What’s something you wish would happen, but know won’t? 

Black Hole: What’s the last thing you want to see? 

It was a huge disappointment as a child to fall in love with the stars and then find out how much math it requires to get anywhere near them.