The first compact solar system discovered was the Kepler-11 system. It’s a compact solar system, which means it has planets very close to its sun. There are five planets by its sun, closer to its Sun than Mercury is to ours.
what if we meet intelligent alien life out there but the novelty eventually wears off and we’re back to “i wonder if we’re alone in the universe or if there’s more than just humans and galorphasians”
Constellations.
Happy Valentines day: source
You actually can’t see light. You can only see what light hits.
This first image from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is the deepest and sharpest infrared image of the distant universe to date. Known as Webb’s First Deep Field, this image of galaxy cluster SMACS 0723 is overflowing with detail. Thousands of galaxies – including the faintest objects ever observed in the infrared – have appeared in Webb’s view for the first time. This slice of the vast universe covers a patch of sky approximately the size of a grain of sand held at arm’s length by someone on the ground.
The Solar System!
bonus Pluto!
Hubble’s view of the Carina Nebula, from the 2007-2009 era I think?
JWST’s view of the same nebula, July 12, 2022
Squidolus [Day:1331 Hour:0]
Taken Under the ‘Wing’ of the Small Magellanic Cloud https://go.nasa.gov/2uC4d0c
Artist’s impression of stars born in winds from supermassive black holes
Read more at: Explorando o Universo
andrei, he/him, 21, made this at 14 when i was a space nerd but i never fully grew out of that phase so,,,,..,hubble telescope + alien life + exoplanet + sci fi nerd
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