Saturn on Insta vs.
Saturn IRL 👀⁣
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An illusion of perspective,
Saturn’s moon Tethys seems to hang above the planet's north pole in this view from @NASAJPL's Cassini spacecraft that was captured on Jan.
26,
2015.
Tethys is actually farther away than Saturn in this image.
Lacking visual clues about distance,
our brains place the moon above Saturn's north pole,
but like all of Saturn's major moons and its ring system,
Tethys actually orbits almost exactly at the planet’s equator.⁣
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Image Credit:
NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute⁣
⁣ #NASA #nasacassini #saturn #moon #space #planet #photography

"Look at the stars,
look how they shine for you"
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@NASAHubble took this image of galaxy NGC 4380,
with a colossal collection of stars numbering up to the hundreds of billions.
Galaxies like this one are quite common in the universe!
Graceful spiral arms outlined by dark lanes of dust wind around the bulging core,
which glows brightly and has the highest concentration of stars in the galaxy.⁣
⁣ #stars #hubble #cosmos #galaxy #starry⁣
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Text credit:
ESA (European Space Agency)⁣
Image credit:
ESA/Hubble &
NASA,
P.
Erwin

Today marks the first #AllWomanSpacewalk in human history!
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@NASAAstronauts Christina Koch and Jessica Meir successfully completed a 7-hour,
17-minute excursion outside of the International Space Station (@ISS)
to replace a failed power controller and accomplish ‘get ahead’
tasks in preparation for future spacewalks.

It was the first spacewalk for @Astro_Jessica and the fourth for @Astro_Christina,
who now has spent a total of 27 hours and 48 minutes spacewalking.
Their tasks set the stage for our #Artemis missions where history will be made once again when the first woman steps foot on the Moon.

Credit:
NASA #NASA #spacewalk #SpaceStation #STEM #space #WhoRunTheWorld #inspiration