Astronomy & Mythology

✧For those who love Mythology, & Astronomy. Hellenistic chick here to honor the Gods with posts and nerd out about space✧ https://astra-deities.tumblr.com/RDT

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"A-meow-zing," Cosmic Cat's Paw ©

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Swirls of Jupiter

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Iapetus

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Wonders of the Universe © Chandra

Cassiopeia A, NGC 3603, ZwCl 0024+1652, NGC 4736

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Strawberry Moon l seongmo.le

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Comet Nishimura l Michael Jäger

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2026 June 13

Interplanetary Earth Image Credit: Cassini Imaging Team, SSI, JPL, ESA, NASA & NASA / JHU Applied Physics Lab / Carnegie Inst. Washington

Explanation: In an interplanetary first, on July 19, 2013 Earth was photographed on the same day from two other worlds of the Solar System, innermost planet Mercury and ringed gas giant Saturn. Pictured on the left, Earth is the pale blue dot just below the rings of Saturn, as captured by the robotic Cassini spacecraft then orbiting the outermost gas giant. On that same day people across planet Earth snapped many of their own pictures of Saturn. On the right, the Earth-Moon system is seen against the dark background of space as captured by the sunward MESSENGER spacecraft, then in Mercury orbit. MESSENGER took its image as part of a search for small natural satellites of Mercury, moons that would be expected to be quite dim. In the MESSENGER image, the brighter Earth and Moon are both overexposed and shine brightly with reflected sunlight. Destined not to return to their home world, both Cassini and MESSENGER have since retired from their missions of Solar System exploration.

∞ Source: apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap260613.html

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Yesterday's Venus-Moon Conjunction

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Saturn’s Rings from the Other Side

Credits: Cassini Imaging Team, SSI, JPL, ESA, NASA

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The first simulated image of a black hole, calculated with an IBM 7040 computer using 1960 punch cards and hand-plotted by French astrophysicist Jean-Pierre Luminet in 1978

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This globular cluster, NGC 6723, sometimes called the Chandelier Cluster, is much like its namesake because it sparkles with countless lights. However, each ‘lightbulb’ in this chandelier is an individual star 27,000 light-years away in the constellation Sagittarius (the Archer).

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Triton

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Why does the Sun throw stuff at us? The Sun’s surface is a churning soup of energetic electrons and ions called plasma. The motion of those charged particles creates magnetic field loops that are larger than the Earth. These loops twist, turn, and trap plasma. The animation shows what happens when those magnetic fields become too stressed: they snap and expel billions of tons (trillions of kilograms) of plasma into space at millions of miles (or kilometers) per hour in what is called a coronal mass ejection (CME). The Sun releases a few CMEs each day when it is at the peak of its activity cycle, which passed in 2025. Some of these eruptions hit Earth and can disrupt power grids, disable satellites, and endanger astronauts, which is why space weather monitoring is so important.

Credit: NASA, SDO, AIA; Richard Petarius III, Keighley Rockcliffe 

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It is a modern recreation of the famous painting Starry Night by Vincent van Gogh. Both the image and the painting depict a tall tree on the left, a crescent moon on the upper right, the planet Venus just to the right of the tree, a foreground horizon rising from left to right, and clouds above the horizon.

Image Credit: Rodrigo Guerra, Original Painting: Vincent van Gogh

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Here is my view of the Jupiter and Venus conjunction on June 8th, 2026, from Massachusetts.

🌌Clear Skies!

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Supermoon Total Lunar Eclipse and Lightning Storm

Credits: Jose Antonio Herv�s

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The Cat's Eye Galaxy, M94 // petelaa