A Near-infrared View Of The Giant Planet Uranus With Rings And Some Of Its Moons, Obtained On November

Indonesian photographer guanarto song lined up with sacred mt merapi for the aquarids meteor shower and nailed this beauty on the night of May 27, 2021.

ENCELADUS: TIGER STRIPES AND THE CHANCE FOR LIFE Discovered by William Hershel in 1789, Enceladus is the sixth largest moon of Saturn. It appears as a small, faint speck through a telescope and until recently not much was known about this mysterious world.

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↳ in the profound darkness of certain nights i have seen the sky streaked with so many trailing sparks that it seemed to me a great gale must be blowing through the outer heavens (antoine de saint-exupery)

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Detroit Free Press, Michigan, August 31, 1934

the truth is out there

The faint rings of Uranus, shot in 1986, are made of countless fragments of water ice containing radiation-altered organic material.

Credit: NASA/JPL/Michael Benson, Kinetikon Pictures

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Neptune from Voyager 2 by NASA