Nasa Photos - Tumblr Posts
Hoag’s Object, a nearly perfect “ring galaxy” captured by the Hubble Space Telescope (Credit: NASA)
Above image is a pride flag with every color band represented by a NASA image. White is Earth clouds, pink is aurora, blue is the Sun in a specific wavelength, brown is Jupiter clouds, black is the Hubble deep field, red is the top of sprites, orange is a Mars crater, yellow is the surface of Io, green is a lake with algae, blue is Neptune, and purple is the Crab Nebula in a specific wavelength.
Since the dawn of humanity, the stars have held a fascination for us, inspiring dreams of exploration. We currently find ourselves in the golden age of the universe, where all the suns are burning and unimaginable quantities of energy are being burnt, resulting in a brilliant light. However, the universe is drifting further and further apart, making it unlikely that we will ever be able to travel to distant galaxies.
Consequently, we are confined to our blue planet as transient beings, unable to fully comprehend its vast dimensions. Our perspective is akin to that of a voyeur, yet we remain safely ensconced at a distance.
mod
I am particularly fond of nocturnal environments, which afford me the opportunity to gaze up at the Stella and to experience a sense of insignificance.
In comparison to the vastness of space, I am but a small entity. This realization has led me to question my own sense of importance.
mod
This is truly remarkable, the only thing humanity has done really well is communicate that it exists. A message in a bottle to the far reaches of the universe ...... We ourselves are still thrilled by these extraordinary measures and will be for the rest of our lives.
mod
We could be a civilisation of successful explorers trying to understand the mysteries of the universe, instead we waste our time killing each other with all the resources we can mobilize.
This makes us sad and only shows how little civilisation we really have.
Based on our enthusiasm, we even bought a book with the golden record on Kickstarter. And we still get excited when we look at it.
Both probes are on a mission to explore the vastness of space and go where no man has gone before! Or, as it currently stands, will be.
mod
Voyager record cover
See the Universe in a New Way with the Webb Space Telescope's First Images
Are you ready to see unprecedented, detailed views of the universe from the James Webb Space Telescope, the largest and most powerful space observatory ever made? Scroll down to see the first full-color images and data from Webb. Unfold the universe with us. ✨
Carina Nebula
This landscape of “mountains” and “valleys” speckled with glittering stars, called the Cosmic Cliffs, is the edge of the star-birthing Carina Nebula. Usually, the early phases of star formation are difficult to capture, but Webb can peer through cosmic dust—thanks to its extreme sensitivity, spatial resolution, and imaging capability. Protostellar jets clearly shoot out from some of these young stars in this new image.
Southern Ring Nebula
The Southern Ring Nebula is a planetary nebula: it’s an expanding cloud of gas and dust surrounding a dying star. In this new image, the nebula’s second, dimmer star is brought into full view, as well as the gas and dust it’s throwing out around it. (The brighter star is in its own stage of stellar evolution and will probably eject its own planetary nebula in the future.) These kinds of details will help us better understand how stars evolve and transform their environments. Finally, you might notice points of light in the background. Those aren’t stars—they’re distant galaxies.
Stephan’s Quintet
Stephan’s Quintet, a visual grouping of five galaxies near each other, was discovered in 1877 and is best known for being prominently featured in the holiday classic, “It’s a Wonderful Life.” This new image brings the galaxy group from the silver screen to your screen in an enormous mosaic that is Webb’s largest image to date. The mosaic covers about one-fifth of the Moon’s diameter; it contains over 150 million pixels and is constructed from almost 1,000 separate image files. Never-before-seen details are on display: sparkling clusters of millions of young stars, fresh star births, sweeping tails of gas, dust and stars, and huge shock waves paint a dramatic picture of galactic interactions.
WASP-96 b
WASP-96 b is a giant, mostly gas planet outside our solar system, discovered in 2014. Webb’s Near-Infrared Imager and Slitless Spectrograph (NIRISS) measured light from the WASP-96 system as the planet moved across the star. The light curve confirmed previous observations, but the transmission spectrum revealed new properties of the planet: an unambiguous signature of water, indications of haze, and evidence of clouds in the atmosphere. This discovery marks a giant leap forward in the quest to find potentially habitable planets beyond Earth.
Webb's First Deep Field
This image of galaxy cluster SMACS 0723, known as Webb’s First Deep Field, looks 4.6 billion years into the past. Looking at infrared wavelengths beyond Hubble’s deepest fields, Webb’s sharp near-infrared view reveals thousands of galaxies—including the faintest objects ever observed in the infrared—in the most detailed view of the early universe to date. We can now see tiny, faint structures we’ve never seen before, like star clusters and diffuse features and soon, we’ll begin to learn more about the galaxies’ masses, ages, histories, and compositions.
These images and data are just the beginning of what the observatory will find. It will study every phase in the history of our Universe, ranging from the first luminous glows after the Big Bang, to the formation of solar systems capable of supporting life on planets like Earth, to the evolution of our own Solar System.
Make sure to follow us on Tumblr for your regular dose of space—and for milestones like this!
Credits: NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI
I WILL NEVER SHUT UP ABOUT THIS
NASA SUPPORTS THE AROS 😭😭😭😭😭
THERE IS NO GREATER ARO WIN FOR THIS ARO ACE PHYSICIST
Above image is a pride flag with every color band represented by a NASA image. White is Earth clouds, pink is aurora, blue is the Sun in a specific wavelength, brown is Jupiter clouds, black is the Hubble deep field, red is the top of sprites, orange is a Mars crater, yellow is the surface of Io, green is a lake with algae, blue is Neptune, and purple is the Crab Nebula in a specific wavelength.
NASA’s new images of Uranus captured by James Webb Space Telescope (2024)
e t e r n a l b l i s s
As someone who avidly reads about astrology and astronomy the total solar eclipse was AMAZING I watched the whole NASA live stream and took soooo many screenshots! This is a once in a lifetime for some the next is 2045!
