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A View of Earth From the Space Station

By iftttauthorways4eu on Mon May 09 2022

NASA astronaut Jessica Watkins floats in the space station’s cupola, a direct nadir viewing window from which Earth and celestial objects are visible. via NASA https://ift.tt/7o2tJgU

A Martian Eclipse: Phobos Crosses the Sun

By iftttauthorways4eu on Mon May 09 2022

What’s that passing in front of the Sun? It looks like a moon, but it can’t be Earth’s Moon, because it isn’t round. It’s the Martian moon Phobos. The featured video was taken from the surface of Mars a month ago by the Perseverance rover. Phobos, at 11.5 kilometers across, is 150 times smaller than […]

Spiral Galaxy NGC 1512: The Inner Rings

By iftttauthorways4eu on Sun May 08 2022

Most galaxies don’t have any rings — why does this galaxy have two? To begin, the bright band near NGC 1512’s center is a nuclear ring, a ring that surrounds the galaxy center and glows brightly with recently formed stars. Most stars and accompanying gas and dust, however, orbit the galactic center in a ring […]

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