Hubble Sees A Star Called HBC 672 And The Bat Shadow : A Young Star’s Unseen, Planet-forming Disk Casts

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Wells-class interplanetary vehicle - Sergio Botero

“By the dawn of the XXII century, humanity’s thirst for Deuterium and Anti-Deuterium became so immense that companies began harvesting raw Hydrogen from the gas and ice giant planets. For that purpose, thousands of interplanetary spaceship tankers that work as refineries were built in order to transport the collected gas from the atmospheres of those planets to space stations over Earth, the Moon and other locations in the Solar System.“

Rick Sternbach’s 1976 cover for Under Pressure, by Frank Herbert

Richard Bizley

A selection orbs of the Solar System: Mercury, Venus, Earth (and Moon), Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune. The spacecraft responsible for these images are as follows:

Mercury was photographed by Mariner 10.

Venus was imaged by the Magellan spacecraft’s radar.

Earth and its Moon were photographed by Galileo.

Mars Global Surveyor took the image of Mars.

Jupiter was photographed by Cassini as it traveled to Saturn.

Saturn, Uranus and Neptune images were taken by the twin Voyager spacecraft.

(NASA)

Another beautiful space painting from my friend Steve R Dodd. ‘The Beacon’. Originally displayed in NASA’s 25th anniversary art show, Cleveland Museum of Natural History (1980s)

SPARTH Collapsing Empire - Preliminary Sketch Digital

Wispy remains of a supernova explosion hide a possible ‘survivor.’ Of all the varieties of exploding stars, the ones called Type Ia are perhaps the most intriguing. Their predictable brightness lets astronomers measure the expansion of the universe, which led to the discovery of dark energy. Yet the cause of these supernovae remains a mystery. Do they happen when two white dwarf stars collide? Or does a single white dwarf gorge on gases stolen from a companion star until bursting? If the second theory is true, the normal star should survive. Astronomers used the Hubble Space Telescope to search the gauzy remains of a Type Ia supernova in a neighboring galaxy called the Large Magellanic Cloud. They found a sun-like star that showed signs of being associated with the supernova. Further investigations will be needed to learn if this star is truly the culprit behind a white dwarf’s fiery demise.

 This supernova remnant is located 160,000 light-years from Earth. The actual supernova remnant is the irregular shaped dust cloud, at the upper center of the image. The gas in the lower half of the image and the dense concentration of stars in the lower left are the outskirts of a star cluster.

Image credit: NASA, ESA and H.-Y. Chu (Academia Sinica, Taipei)