Squidolus [Day:1323 Hour:12]

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. 

The luminous heart of the galaxy M61.

NGC 602: Stars vs Pillars © JWST/Hubble

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.

listening to the audio from the golden record always makes me cry

nasa space tourism posters <333333333

Frontispiece. Saturn & a total eclipse.  The solar system.  1852.

This is a picture of the top of Saturn, featuring a hexagonal storm on its North Pole which has most likely been going on for decades.

The Ships by Darry Fletcher