TRAPPIST-1 Planets - Flyaround Animation

NGC 602: Stars vs Pillars © JWST/Hubble

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

Love And Space Dust (via story-dj)

Jupiter and its moons

Image credit: Nevan

It is so cool to see such photos by beginners made with iPhone and eyepiece: “I know this may not be as good as many other photos but I tried my best with my beginners luck. Equipment : -Skywatcher 8 inch dob (manual) -iphone 7 (held manually) -10 mm eyepiece (super Plossl) Processing : Just photoshopped by -increasing contrast - fixing exposure - balancing whites and blacks Conditions: -very crappy skies (not good transparency) -light pollution: bortle 8-9 (inner city) - Jupiter not at opposition http://ift.tt/2FhOOrZ

Exoplanet Exploration: “Galaxy of Horrors”

Your fave is problematic: Jupiter

could lose some weight. is ginormous. like HUGE. all planets of our solar system could fit inside with room to spare

is called a gas giant for a reason. super gassy. really really gassy. dude. stop.

(hydrogen and helium)

privacy nut: looks like a caramel candy but won’t show us his real surface. all we can see are his clouds and storms (terrible fucking storms let me tell you)

has a storm called “the red spot” that is several times larger than planet Earth

is thicc in all regards: his atmosphere is several hundreds of kilometres deep

probably doesn’t even have a real surface: the gas just slowly changes into liquid form. 

liquid. metallic (!). hydrogen. get a load of that. YO. 10 000 degrees celsius. weird as shit!

possibly doesn’t have a core. Jupiter always needs special treatment 

if he tried a little harder, he coulda been a star. get it together man. you just needed to be 75 times larger and you could’ve been a read dwarf. but no 

way too hot. so fucking scorching hot that he’s still cooling 4 billion years after forming (gives away more heat than he receives)

rotating too fast for his own good: going so fast (rotates around itself in less than 10 hours) that he’s shaped like a squished ball

has 67 moons… could’ve gone for 69 but gave up too early. boo

summary: big ass bully with a gas problem

Deep Thought of the Day

Over 90% of our solar system actually begins where the planets end.  Deep stuff. Yes, the galaxy is interesting, but our own cosmic backyard should pique our interest as well.  Lots of interesting things just a hop, skim, and few year journey in a yet-to-be-designed spacecraft. 

space shit is cancelled until we solve homelessness and poverty