lodestarlust

anything pertaining to space,seabeds,excursions, exo, and everything in between.

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Jupiter along with 4 of its moons and Venus from last night

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One of the most interesting places in the solar system is Triton, moon of Neptune.

It orbits backwards which means it wasn’t formed with Neptune: it was captured.

There have been cases of rogue planets drifting alone through interstellar space - could Triton be one such planet, forced into submission by the gas giant?

Of further interest is the discovery that there may be several sources of internal heat for the moon: radioactive isotopic decay and tidal flexing.

The high amounts of ammonia (which would significantly lower the temperature in which water would exist in liquid form) and the internal heat could mean there’s a subsurface ocean of water…

It could be a unique opportunity to explore a planet from another solar system with our robots or another likely candidate for extraterrestrial life… the only thing we know for sure is that there’s a lot we don’t know.

The only time we’ve visited was when Voyager 2 flew by briefly in 1989.

NASA currently has no further plans to visit Triton…

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Transit of Neptune’s moon Despina

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Clouds cast thousand-mile shadows into space when viewed aboard the International Space Station

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Known Types of Alien World

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[fyeahluhan]

150518 Luhan Instagram Update: Time to sleep 😎😎😎

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The liver of a polar bear contains toxic (to humans) amounts of vitamin A. So think twice before consuming a polar bear’s liver. 

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Sky Above Mountain in Hawaii [OC] [2916 x 1932] http://space-pics.tumblr.com/

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High-Definition image of Mars. Inspiring doesn’t even begin to cover it.

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The Carina Nebula

The Carina Nebula is a region of massive star formation in the southern skies. This panorama of the Carina Nebula was taken in infrared light using the HAWK-I camera on ESO’s Very Large Telescope.

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Gunkanjima, Japan: The Forbidden Island

This island is one among 505 uninhabited islands in the Nagasaki Prefecture of Japan about 15 kilometers from Nagasaki itself. It began in 1890 when a company called Mitsubishi bought the island and began a project to retrieve coal from the bottom of the sea. 

This attracted much attention, and in 1916 they were forced to build Japan’s first large concrete building on the island. A block of apartments that would both accommodate the seas of workers and protect them from hurricanes. 

In 1959, population had swelled, and boasted a density of 835 people per hectare for the whole island (1,391 per hectare for the residential district), one of the highest population densities ever recorded worldwide. As petroleum replaced coal in Japan in the 1960’s, coal mines began shutting down all over the country, and Hashima’s mines were no exception. 

In 1974 Mitsubishi officially announced the closing of the mine, and today it is empty and bare, with travel currently prohibited. (Source) 

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140605 M!Countdown - Moonlight & Overdose - Luhan

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Shinjyuku Gyoen (in spring) | 新宿御苑 by Kotaro M. on Flickr.

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by Matthew James Turner

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This is what a cracked egg looks like underwater.

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