#outer space!

[18kgold]

Dust cloud discovered around one of sky’s brightest stars

High-resolution images from James Webb space telescope reveal two rings of debris around Fomalhaut

Beyond an extensive inner asteroid belt that swirls around the star is a second narrower ring of rock and rubble.

[...] Further out still from Fomalhaut is an outer ring of debris that resembles the solar system’s Kuiper belt, home to Pluto and the other dwarf planets, Eris, Haumea, and Makemake. It was in this outer ring that the astronomers spotted what they call the great dust cloud, which they suspect was produced when two space rocks more than 400 miles wide slammed into one another.

[...] The three nested belts and the gaps between them suggest that unseen planets are circling Fomalhaut and shaping the star system through their gravitational fields. 

[ami-ven]

Happy National Space Day!

[oamiralithings]

UFOs And Aliens From Outer Space! Released NASA Video

[meibatsu-prax]

(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpsQimYhNkA)

NASA's Juno spacecraft captured a unique time-lapse movie of the Galilean satellites in motion about Jupiter. The movie begins on June 12th with Juno 10 million miles from Jupiter, and ends on June 29th, 3 million miles distant. The innermost moon is volcanic Io; next in line is the ice-crusted ocean world Europa, followed by massive Ganymede, and finally, heavily cratered Callisto. Galileo observed these moons to change position with respect to Jupiter over the course of a few nights. From this observation he realized that the moons were orbiting mighty Jupiter, a truth that forever changed humanity's understanding of our place in the cosmos. Earth was not the center of the Universe. For the first time in history, we look upon these moons as they orbit Jupiter and share in Galileo’s revelation. This is the motion of nature's harmony.

First time a full orbit of another celestial body has been filmed! It’s 17 days as our satellite probe Juno approached Jupiter compressed into 3 minutes. So cool..!! Callisto, the outermost moon, is blinky because it’s very dim.

[etsybrook-blog]

What To Wear To A Comic Con: Day 2

(Purple Galaxy Leggings by Black Milk)

My friend Lauren calls these "Carl Sagan Pants."  The designer calls them "Galaxy Leggings."  My second grade teacher would have said they were "Out of this world!"  I simply say, "HELLS YES."

Thank you to Lauren for introducing me to these intergalactic wonders.   I will be counting the number of people who reach out, uninvited, to touch my legs today.