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What Is This ‘Cosmic Question Mark’ Captured by the James Webb Space Telescope?
The James Webb Space Telescope has captured a spectacular new image of a pair of actively forming stars about 1,470 light-years away. But beneath the breathtaking phenomenon, some viewers noticed a peculiar shape among the backdrop of celestial objects: a glowing question mark. The image quickly went viral on social media, with jokes about its origin ranging from aliens to a glitch in the Matrix.
The object’s color indicates it is either very distant—billions of light-years away—or much closer and obscured by dust.
The shining question mark represents two galaxies merging. The hooked portion of the shape may be what’s called a tidal tail—a thin, elongated stream of stars and gases that occurs as galaxies interact.
Credit: NASA
Artfight attack for @smirking-raven !! I leaned more on the stardust theme for this one ehe
My favorite nebula ever! I always use this for my profile pictures 😂😂😂
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Lagoon Nebula, M8, in Sagittarius ❤
Taken by me (Michelle Park) using the Slooh Canary Two Telescope, taken in August 2018.
So beautiful - I absolutely love the night sky! ✨✨✨
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The Exploding Galaxy is a starburst galaxy which may have been deformed by M81, another neighboring galaxy. 🌌
Starting in April 2010, the Exploding Galaxy started sending out strange radio signals and scientists to this day don’t understand them yet... 👽👽👽
Taken by me (Michelle Park) using the Slooh Canary Two telescope on April 19th, 2020 at 21:57 UTC.
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A human body, or any object on the Earth, is never at rest. Even when you're asleep in bed, you're moving pretty fast. Our Milky Way Galaxy is rotating at 225 kilometers per second, and hurling through the cosmos at an estimated 305 kilometers per second. Add those figures together, and we're racing through space at around 530 kilometers, or 330 miles per second. So in one minute's time, you've traveled almost 20,000 kilometers, or more than 12,000 miles. Our whole solar system orbits around the center of the Milky Way Galaxy at an average velocity of 828,000 km/hr. But even at that high rate, it still takes us about 230 million years to make one complete orbit around the Milky Way!For more such posts follow @_space___lover_ • #nasa #space #cosmos #stars #galaxy #astrophotography #astronomy #relativity #hubble #nightsky #telescope (at Space) https://www.instagram.com/p/CCkRKvRHv_1/?igshid=1pyv850sih91h
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Astronaut Dave Scott looks at Earth from the Apollo 9 Command Module in March, 1969. NASA photo Tighten your seatbelts and get ready to explore endless universe 🚀 Make sure you follow us @the_astrophysics_forum To stay on board 👨🚀 . . . . . . . #astrophysics #astronomy #science #nasa #universe #space #physics #cosmos #cosmology #earth #astrophotography #galaxy #blackhole #spacex #planets #solarsystem #moon #einstein #quantummechanics #telescope #milkyway #scientist #astronaut #stephenhawking https://www.instagram.com/p/CDDBkOiDkbv/?igshid=19at1diye6nms
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Successful launch of H-IIB rocket from Japan. The H-IIB rocket carrying the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's Kounotori 9 lifted off in the early morning of May 21. It was launched from Tanegashima Space Center. This cargo freighter carrying the last set of six lithium-ion batteries to upgrade the International Space Station’s solar power truss. This launch was the last in a series of nine H-IIB rockets, and also marked the ninth and final flight of Japan’s current-generation barrel-shaped HTV cargo carriers. Tighten your seatbelts and get ready to explore endless universe 🚀 Make sure you follow us @the_astrophysics_forum To stay on board 👨🚀 . . . . . . . #japan #jaea #japanspaceagency #iss #elonmusk #astrophysics #astronomy #science #nasa #universe #space #physics #cosmos #earth #astrophotography #galaxy #blackhole #spacex #planets #solarsystem #moon #einstein #quantummechanics #telescope #milkyway (at Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) https://www.instagram.com/p/CC-3C6LnkFp/?igshid=16ed2wkbthkb
Rear feat achieved ! Check for the details about the discovery ⬇️ and do share it ! The European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT) has taken the first ever image of a young, Sun-like star accompanied by two giant exoplanets. Images of systems with multiple exoplanets are extremely rare, and — until now — astronomers had never directly observed more than one planet orbiting a star similar to the Sun. The observations can help astronomers understand how planets formed and evolved around our own Sun. Follow us to explore more with us @the_astrophysics_forum . Just a few weeks ago, ESO revealed a planetary system being born in a new, stunning VLT image. Now, the same telescope, using the same instrument, has taken the first direct image of a planetary system around a star like our Sun, located about 300 light-years away and known as TYC 8998-760-1. “This discovery is a snapshot of an environment that is very similar to our Solar System, but at a much earlier stage of its evolution,” says Alexander Bohn, a PhD student at Leiden University in the Netherlands, who led the new research published today in The Astrophysical Journal Letters. Tighten your seatbelts and get ready to explore endless universe 🚀 Make sure you follow us @the_astrophysics_forum To stay on board 👨🚀 . . . . . . . #exoplanet #eso #multiplanetary #astrophysics #astronomy #science #nasa #universe #space #physics #cosmos #earth #astrophotography #galaxy #blackhole #spacex #planets #solarsystem #moon #einstein #quantummechanics #telescope #milkyway #scientist https://www.instagram.com/p/CC-PouvnfN6/?igshid=1lhg93mkp0xnc
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The bubble nebula. Follow us to explore more with us @the_astrophysics_forum . NGC 7635, also known as the Bubble Nebula, Sharpless 162, or Caldwell 11, is an H II region emission nebula in the constellation Cassiopeia. It lies close to the direction of the open cluster Messier 52. The "bubble" is created by the stellar wind from a massive hot, 8.7 magnitude young central star, SAO 20575. Tighten your seatbelts and get ready to explore endless universe 🚀 Make sure you follow us @the_astrophysics_forum To stay on board 👨🚀 . . . . . . . #nebula #bubblenebula #ngc7635 #sao20575 #astrophysics #astronomy #science #nasa #universe #space #physics #cosmos #earth #astrophotography #galaxy #blackhole #spacex #planets #solarsystem #moon #telescope #milkyway https://www.instagram.com/p/CC3nMyEjzDk/?igshid=1k38l5tg68hkh
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November 2, 2019, Armed with over 8,000 pounds of cargo for the International Space Station, Antares’ fiery launch was a sight to be seen. Follow us to explore more with us @the_astrophysics_forum . Tighten your seatbelts and get ready to explore endless universe 🚀 Make sure you follow us @the_astrophysics_forum To stay on board 👨🚀 . . . . . . . @johnkrausphotos #antares #astrophysics #astronomy #science #nasa #universe #space #physics #cosmos #cosmology #earth #astrophotography #galaxy #blackhole #spacex #planets #solarsystem #moon #einstein #quantummechanics #telescope #milkyway #scientist #astronaut #stephenhawking https://www.instagram.com/p/CCudSoKj9cl/?igshid=u1jrogwso7w
Animated illustration showing the the solar wind streaming around Earth’s magnetosphere. Near the North and South Poles, Earth’s magnetic field forms funnels that allow the solar wind access to the upper atmosphere. Follow us to explore more with us @the_astrophysics_forum . Each second, 1.5 million tons of solar material shoot off of the Sun and out into space, traveling at hundreds of miles per second. Known as the solar wind, this incessant stream of plasma, or electrified gas, has pelted Earth for more than 4 billion years. Tighten your seatbelts and get ready to explore endless universe 🚀 Make sure you follow us @the_astrophysics_forum To stay on board 👨🚀 . . . . . . . #magnetosphere #earthsmagneticfield #solarwind #astrophysics #astronomy #science #nasa #universe #space #physics #cosmos #cosmology #earth #astrophotography #galaxy #blackhole #spacex #planets #solarsystem #moon #einstein #quantummechanics #telescope #milkyway #scientist #astronaut #stephenhawking https://www.instagram.com/p/CCs0LzQDrth/?igshid=1xl05wuri7rwz
A star trail is a type of photograph that uses long exposure times to capture the apparent motion of stars in the night sky due to Earth's rotation. Follow us to explore more with us @the_astrophysics_forum . A star-trail photograph shows individual stars as streaks across the image, with longer exposures yielding longer arcs. Tighten your seatbelts and get ready to explore endless universe 🚀 Make sure you follow us @the_astrophysics_forum To stay on board 👨🚀 . . . . . . . #startrails #startrailsphotography #astrophysics #astronomy #science #nasa #universe #space #physics #cosmos #cosmology #earth #astrophotography #galaxy #blackhole #spacex #planets #solarsystem #moon #einstein #quantummechanics #telescope #milkyway #scientist #astronaut #stephenhawking https://www.instagram.com/p/CCr3fqMjJsx/?igshid=k7yixpohpyqv
NGC 4565: The Needle Galaxy. Follow us to explore more with us @the_astrophysics_forum . The Needle galaxy is almost perfectly edge-on displaying the central core and dust lanes. It is located in the Coma Berenices constellation about 40 million light years away and about 100,000 light years in diameter. Tighten your seatbelts and get ready to explore endless universe 🚀 Make sure you follow us @the_astrophysics_forum To stay on board 👨🚀 . . . . . . . #ngc4565 #needlegalaxy #astrophysics #astronomy #science #nasa #universe #space #physics #cosmos #cosmology #earth #astrophotography #galaxy #blackhole #spacex #planets #solarsystem #moon #einstein #quantummechanics #telescope #milkyway #scientist #astronaut #stephenhawking https://www.instagram.com/p/CCqWlPmDHsb/?igshid=1o5ok3rizmim5
All the phases of the moon shot over a long period of the time. Follow us to explore more with us @the_astrophysics_forum ❤️. Tighten your seatbelts and get ready to explore endless universe 🚀 Make sure you follow us @the_astrophysics_forum To stay on board 👨🚀 . . . . . . . #astrophysics #astronomy #science #nasa #universe #space #physics #cosmos #cosmology #earth #astrophotography #galaxy #blackhole #spacex #planets #solarsystem #moon #einstein #quantummechanics #telescope #milkyway #scientist #astronaut #stephenhawking https://www.instagram.com/p/CCpVIpzDZel/?igshid=nfqm16wgtlee
Journey of Venus (2018-2020) A marvelous composite image – made of photos acquired over 500 days (1.5 years) showing the waxing and waning of Venus, and the changing size of the planet’s visible disk, as it orbits the sun one step inward from Earth by @prabhuskutti . Follow us to explore more with us @the_astrophysics_forum . Looking to the immediate right of the sun, Venus is shown in its crescent phase just after its October 26, 2018, inferior conjunction, when it passed between Earth and the sun and entered the morning sky. Looking to the left of the sun in this composite, the first image shows Venus after it emerged from the sun’s glare again, following its August 14, 2019 superior conjunction. Venus is the second planet from the Sun and the third brightest object in Earth's sky after the Sun and Moon. The surface of Venus is hidden by an opaque layer of clouds that are formed from sulphuric acid which makes it looks featureless through telescopic observation. Venus overtakes Earth every 584 days as it orbits the Sun, it changes from the "Evening Star", visible after sunset, to the "Morning Star", visible before sunrise. Capture details: Date: December 15, 2018, until June 23, 2020 Equipment details: 16" newtonian f/4.5 & Celestron HD 11" with ZWO 290MC - ES 3x - IR685nm/ UV-IR cut filter. Daystar quark with Esprit 80ED APO - ZWO1600MM Pro for the sun. Processing details: Stacked all the videos in Autostakkert and sharpened it in Registax then finally created the collage with the hydrogen alpha sun in the middle in photoshop Location: Mleiha, UAE. Tighten your seatbelts and get ready to explore endless universe 🚀 Make sure you follow us @the_astrophysics_forum To stay on board 👨🚀 . . . . . . . #venus #eveningstar #astrophysics #astronomy #science #nasa #universe #space #physics #cosmos #cosmology #earth #astrophotography #galaxy #blackhole #spacex #planets #solarsystem #moon #einstein #quantummechanics #telescope #milkyway #scientist #astronaut #stephenhawking https://www.instagram.com/p/CCoYYE3DIEk/?igshid=c53h3hswvipl
The two tails of comet NEOWISE, one fading and other bright one. Tighten your seatbelts and get ready to explore endless universe 🚀 Make sure you follow us @the_astrophysics_forum To stay on board 👨🚀 . . . . . . . #comet #neowise #neowisecomet #astrophysics #astronomy #science #nasa #universe #space #physics #cosmos #cosmology #earth #astrophotography #galaxy #blackhole #spacex #planets #solarsystem #moon #einstein #quantummechanics #telescope #milkyway #scientist #astronaut #stephenhawking https://www.instagram.com/p/CCnF67inAA8/?igshid=1xhc738b6kqvh
This beautiful timelapse shot by @astrogyres during sunrise when the comet NEOWISE rising over Adriatic sea in Italy. Take some time out to think about how tiny we are compared to the universe and its hidden wonders and mysteries. YOLO, so cherish and experience every moment of life. Tighten your seatbelts and get ready to explore endless universe 🚀 Make sure you follow us @the_astrophysics_forum To stay on board 👨🚀 . . . . . . . #comet #neowise #italy #apod #croatia #adriaticsea #astrophotography #astrophysics #astronomy #science #nasa #universe #space #physics #cosmos #cosmology #earth #galaxy #blackhole #spacex #planets #solarsystem #moon #einstein #quantummechanics #telescope #milkyway https://www.instagram.com/p/CClrjYyH5Xf/?igshid=ghma6cnwq9vk
Stunning shot of comet NEOWISE. This comet will be appearing to us brightly for next 20 days to naked eye at the North Western direction ☄️ Follow us to explore more with us on @the_astrophysics_forum . This will be the brightest comet in decades passing earth. The comet will come closest to earth on July 22-23rd. DONT MISS IT 💯. Tighten your seatbelts and get ready to explore endless universe 🚀 Make sure you follow us @the_astrophysics_forum To stay on board 👨🚀 . . . . . . . #neowise #comet #eveningsky #morningsky #brightestcomet #cometneowise #astrophotography #astrophysics #astronomy #science #nasa #universe #space #physics #cosmos #cosmology #earth #galaxy #blackhole #spacex #planets #solarsystem #moon #quantummechanics #telescope #milkyway https://www.instagram.com/p/CCknafVnbbj/?igshid=1qxwdu96i075k
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