Tiny planet Mercury transits the Sun 👀⁣⁣
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On Nov.
11,
Mercury crossed between Earth and the Sun -
a rare event we won't be able to see again until 2032.
Our Solar Dynamics Observatory,
which views the Sun in a variety of wavelengths of light in the extreme ultraviolet,
tracked Mercury's journey.⁣⁣
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Credit:
NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio ⁣⁣
⁣⁣ #sun #transit #mercury #mercurytransit #solarsystem #nasa

See those swirling clouds that look like cream in coffee?

It’s actually a cyclonic storm in Jupiter’s atmosphere spotted by our @NASAJuno spacecraft during a close flyby!

Juno observed this vortex in a region of Jupiter called the “north north north north temperate belt,”
one of the gas giant planet’s many persistent cloud bands.
These bands are formed by the prevailing winds at different latitudes.
The vortex seen here is roughly 1,200 miles (2,000 kilometers)
wide.

Citizen scientist Kevin M.
Gill created this image using data from the spacecraft's JunoCam imager when the spacecraft was about 5,300 miles (8,500 kilometers)
from Jupiter’s cloud tops above a latitude of about 49 degrees.

Image credit:
Image data:
NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS Image processing by Kevin M.
Gill,
©
CC BY #NASA #Jupiter #SolarSystem #Swirls #Clouds

✨“We are made of star-stuff.
We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.”✨
Today we remember planetary scientist Carl Sagan on his birthday.
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Within a galaxy hosting around 300 billion stars,
here @NASAHubble has captured a mere handful or two.
These stars fall within NGC 1333,
located about 1,000 light-years away in the constellation of Perseus.
The cool gas and dust concentrated in this region is generating new stars whose light is then reflecting off the surrounding material,
lighting it up and making this object’s lingering presence known to us.⁣
⁣ #NASA #Hubble #Space #Stars #Astronomy #CarlSaganDay