Interstellar Dust Of The Horsehead Nebula As Revealed By The Hubble Space Telescope and KUEYEN Telescope.

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Pluto as seen from NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft ; Its heart-shaped sea is filled with poisonous ice.

For more than a century, scientists have been fascinated by the jet that forms after a drop impacts a liquid. In this study, researchers tracked fluorescent particles in the fluid to understand the velocity and acceleration of flow inside the jet. (Image and research credit: C. van Rijn et al.; via APS Physics; submitted by Kam-Yung Soh)

“One of the most actively changing areas on Mars are the steep edges of the North Polar layered deposits. This image from NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) shows many new ice blocks compared to an earlier image in December 2006. An animation shows one example, where a section of ice cliff collapsed. The older image (acquired in bin-2 mode) is not as sharp as the newer one.” Credit - nasa.gov

Galileo Galilei 1564-1642 the father of observational astronomy

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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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