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The qrcodes do take to each planets' nasa site. I learned a lot of each planet while doing this work.

My favorite is Saturn! Which ones yer favorite?

NASA Travel Posters: Visions of the Future

Jones-Emberson 1 (PK164+31.1)

The celestial object of the day is TOI-1338b, unofficially known as Wolftopia!

This planet orbits around two stars, causing irregularities in its orbit, making it vary between 95 and 93 days. Although its orbit will keep being stable for another ten million years, its angle towards us will change, meaning that we can't see another transit until 2031.

A Pair of Staggering Infographics Organizes 1,600 Planets Beyond Our Solar System by Color

Black Hole Friday Deals!

Get these deals before they are sucked into a black hole and gone forever! This “Black Hole Friday,” we have some cosmic savings that are sure to be out of this world.

Your classic black holes — the ultimate storage solution.

Galactic 5-for-1 special! Learn more about Stephan’s Quintet.

Limited-time offer game DLC! Try your hand at the Roman Space Observer Video Game, Black Hole edition, available this weekend only.

Standard candles: Exploding stars that are reliably bright. Multi-functional — can be used to measure distances in space!

Feed the black hole in your stomach. Spaghettification’s on the menu.

Act quickly before the stars in this widow system are gone!

Add some planets to your solar system! Grab our Exoplanet Bundle.

Get ready to ride this (gravitational) wave before this Black Hole Merger ends!

Be the center of attention in this stylish accretion disk skirt. Made of 100% recycled cosmic material.

Should you ever travel to a black hole? No. But if you do, here’s a free guide to make your trip as safe* as possible. *Note: black holes are never safe. 

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Over 800 terrestrial exoplanets visualized and arranged according to their equilibrium temperature and size.

chart by u/mVargic

NGC 602: Stars vs Pillars © JWST/Hubble

the three BLACK WOMEN (mary jackson, katherine g. johnson, and dorothy vaughan) that changed astronomy and history.

mary jackson, an accomplished engineer, broke down barriers as the first african american woman to work as an engineer at NASA. her expertise and determination paved the way for future generations of women in the field.

katherine johnson, a brilliant mathematician, calculated the trajectory for john glenn's historic 1962 spaceflight, making her an invaluable asset to NASA's space task group. her calculations were pivotal in ensuring a successful mission

dorothy vaughan was a talented mathematician and the first african-american supervisor at NASA. she was instrumental in introducing computer programming skills to her colleagues, which played a significant role in advancing the space program.

through their dedication and groundbreaking achievements, mary jackson, katherine johnson, and dorothy vaughan left an indelible mark on history, proving that talent knows no boundaries, and that anyone, regardless of their background, can reach for the stars. their triumphs were celebrated in the 2016 film hidden figures, a personal favorite of mine.

i urge you all to read up on these magnificent women and their astronomical (no pun intended) impact on the world. celebrate and encourage black women in STEM. they are magical

Behemoth Black Hole Found in an Unlikely Place by NASA Goddard Photo and Video

A starry night sky and and an atmospheric glow

Saturn in near-infrared (Webb)/visible, ultraviolet (Hubble)

Webb captures Jupiter's faint rings, auroras & hazes

l composite from its NIRCam instrument(x)

hey, don't cry. comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF) visible to us humans for the first time in 50,000 years before it'll leave us forever, ok?

[source] for all the images

Brilliant Venus at magnitude -4 and Comet NEOWISE

Credit: Radical Retinoscopy

Venus, Callisto (Jupiter’s moon), Neptune

The Ships by Darry Fletcher

Space systems, some discarded ideas from a school asignment that I still really like

NGC 2419, Wanderer

LDN 483 is located about 700 light-years away in the constellation of Serpens (The Serpent).

Credit: Warren Keller

quantum stuff is so freaky to me. I hate hearing about it. it feels like we have gotten down to the level of reality where god didn't think we would actually make it this far and didn't bother to finish tidying everything up.

Neptune Through the Years by James Webb Space Telescope

Laika's still up there. not her body, sure, but her soul is. i saw it through my telescope one night when i was looking for aliens. she was sniffing for table scraps under saturn's ring. she chases comets and bites down on satellites. i saw her napping by neptune, she was kicking her feet. passing through the oort cloud is like the stroke of a hand on her fur. eyes like marbles and four little paws like flames. she bobs through jupiter's moons like cold moscow streets. up there the stars are a great big field. and look, she's running so fast. god damn, look at her go.

The planet Uranus. Taken on November 14th 2009 at 3:52 am. Using the 98 in Hooker telescope.

So the James Webb telescope just took a picture of a galaxy that is 29 million light years away.

If that wasn't cool enough NASA decided to peel away all the cosmic dust in order to see the bones of the Galaxy itself.

AND IT'S BREATHTAKING

The lightest (i.e., least massive) known star, OTS 44 [3000 x 2400]

imagine if aliens found the dead body of a human being exploded in the vacuum of space and they started making fun of the mutilated corpse calling it “splatter alien” and saying it was the ugliest alien in the whole galexy. and then made stuffed animals of it to sell to their alien kids. that’s what happened on this planet to the blob fish

how is everyone not wailing and shouting in the streets everytime a new james webb telescope image comes out how are people not immediately rent asunder by the terrifying beauty of space with every new release

A cosmic kaleidoscope by Hubble Space Telescope / ESA

1. Fresh picture of the spinning Phantom Galaxy by the new James Webb Space Telescope *• 2. Nautilus shell cut in half. | Golden ratio.