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Any regrets with past relationships?
Well not really. Relationships rise and fall all the time and as a young man I've come to accept that. Sometimes things don't work out, differences etc. And I don't regret any of my past relationships as they've all helped me learn and grow as a person. My only regrets would be the ways I acted and mistakes I made with people I supposedly loved, but that's all in the past, I'll keep in the present and hope for a good future in my love life.
Using data from the Hubble Space Telescope, scientists have produced groovy new maps of Jupiter and projected them onto a rotating globe. Behold!!
(ESA)
The Top 8 Worlds In Our Solar System For Life
“Yet the ingredients for life, including the full suite of stable elements in the periodic table, the chemical combinations associated with the building blocks of life, and even complex, organic molecules are found literally everywhere we look in space. We find them in the atmospheres of gas giants, on the surfaces of rocky worlds, on moons, asteroids and comets, and even in the gaseous depths of interstellar space.”
Looking for life beyond Earth? In our Solar System, the top 8 candidates (probably) are:
1.) Europa 2.) Enceladus 3.) Mars 4.) Titan 5.) Venus 6.) Triton 7.) Ceres 8.) Pluto
Come and find out what makes each of these worlds special, and what their prospects for life might be!
The Hyades star cluster in the constellation Taurus, a physical associatino of stars. This is a very important cluster in astronomy, providing a reliable, early measurment of the distance to such a group of stars, about 150 light-years away. It provides a rung on the "ladder" of distance measuments to the much farther universe. Nikon D300, Rokinon 85mm f/1.4, 5 min., f/5.6, ISO 800, iOptron tracker.
Coronal holes appear as dark patches on the Sun, primarily in extreme ultraviolet and soft X-ray images due to the lower plasma density and electron temperature compared to the surrounding quiet Sun. Coronal holes form over open magnetic flux regions where one end of the magnetic field lines is attached to the Sun and the other end is dragged outward into interplanetary space by the solar wind. The solar wind which is magnetized plasma of ions and electrons can flow out along these open field lines at very high speeds. Coronal holes occur usually at the solar poles (poloidal magnetic field), but during more active periods these dark holes can exist at all heliolatitudes and can trigger geomagnetic storms.
Further reading:
Coronal Holes & High-Speed Solar Wind
Solar Wind: Global Properties
Credit: Solar Dynamics Observatory/NASA
The Milky Way over Manzanita Lake in Northern California's Lassen Volcanic National Park at the beginning of my road trip last month.
Colourised version of New Horizons’ recent backlit-panorama of Pluto
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This is a look at this famous nebula using narrowband filters to bring out as much detail as I can while still leaving the Trapezium visible in the centre. It has also enabled me to bring up some of the fainter nebulosity further away from the nebula core regions. My previous posting used only H Alpha and OIII data, this one is made from HAlpha, OIII and SII data. All individual subframes were kept to just a minute's exposure to avoid blowing out the core region. HA = 41 x 1 minute OIII = 79 x 1 minute SII = 47 x 1 minute Peter
This is a reprocessed version with improved colors... Stars are forming in the Soul of the Queen of Aethopia. More specifically, a large star forming region called the Soul Nebula can be found in the direction of the constellation Cassiopeia, who Greek mythology credits as the vain wife of a King who long ago ruled lands surrounding the upper Nile river. The Soul Nebula houses several open clusters of stars, a large radio source known as W5, and huge evacuated bubbles formed by the winds of young massive stars. Located about 6,500 light years away, the Soul Nebula spans about 100 light years and is usually imaged next to its celestial neighbor the Heart Nebula (IC 1805). (source: APOD) Telescope: TMB92 Camera: QSI583ws Mount: Skywatcher NEQ6 Exposures: Date: 10/11-10-2015 Ha: 27x1200s (9h) OIII: 11x1200s (3,7h) SII: 13x1200s (4,3h) Total: 17h
On October 10, 1846, astronomer William Lassell discovered Triton, moon of Neptune. (NASA)
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Pfeiffer by DeepSkyColors Via Flickr: 9/2015 Big Sur, California. Julia Pfeiffer State Beach in Big Sur is one of those places that blends vastness and detail in a colossal yet cozy stage. It’s not rare to find people here taking photographs, especially around sunset and short into the night. Eventually, everyone leaves. You stay. 3 pane mosaic.
Thor’s Helmet Nebula
This VLT image of the Thor’s Helmet Nebula was taken on the occasion of ESO’s 50th Anniversary, 5 October 2012, with the help of Brigitte Bailleul. This object, also known as NGC 2359, lies in the constellation of Canis Major (The Great Dog). The helmet-shaped nebula is around 15 000 light-years away from Earth and is over 30 light-years across. The helmet is a cosmic bubble, blown as the wind from the bright, massive star near the bubble’s centre sweeps through the surrounding molecular cloud.
Credit: ESO/B. Bailleul
Foggy Tunnel View by tobyharriman on Flickr.
NASA just released a brand new equirectangular projection of Jupiter, so I thought it would be fun to revisit the surface of some planetary bodies … IN CONTINUOUSLY LOOPING GIF FORM.
So here’s
Mercury
Venus
Earth
Earth’s moon
Mars
Jupiter
Ganymede (one of Jupiter’s moons)
Pluto
Credit: NASA/JPL, USGS
