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Look to the skies!
That bright red “star”
is Mars 🔴.
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It reaches its highest point around midnight and is at its biggest and brightest TONIGHT,
Oct.
13!⁣⁣
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If you have a telescope or even basic binoculars,
you’ll also be able to spot the galaxy of Andromeda,
or M31,
a spiral galaxy similar to our own Milky Way but slightly larger.
Keep watching for more tips!
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Credit:
NASA ⁣⁣

⁣⁣ #Mars #BlueMoon #Andromeda #skywatching #galaxy #SolarSystem #October #NASA #JPL #astronomy

A Beautiful Ghost ⁣👻
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Officially known as IC 63,
the Ghost Nebula is located 550 light-years away in the constellation Cassiopeia the Queen.⁣
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@NASAHubble snapped this image that shows how the brightest stars embedded in nebulae throughout our galaxy pour out a torrent of radiation that eats into vast clouds of hydrogen gas –
the raw material for building new stars.
This etching process sculpts a fantasy landscape where human imagination can see all kinds of shapes and figures.⁣
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Credit:
NASA,
ESA,
and STScI/Acknowledgment:
H.
Arab (University of Strasbourg)⁣
⁣ #NASA #Space #GhostNebula #Universe #Hubble⁣
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Images of broken light /
Which dance before /
me like a million eyes /
They call me on and on across the universe 🌌⁣⁣⁣
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@NASAHubble caught this star exploding,
scattering stellar matter across the universe.
In this zoomed in time-lapse sequence,
spanning nearly a year,
the supernova first appears as a blazing star located 70 million light-years away on a spiral galaxy’s outer edge.
At its peak,
the supernova burst was 5 billion times as bright as our Sun.
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The star sent elements like hydrogen,
helium,
and iron zooming through the cosmos.
These same elements are in all of our bodies and they were forged in the stars.
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Keep shining.⁣⁣
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Credits:
NASA/ESA/J.
DePasquale (STScI),
M.
Kornmesser and M.
Zamani (ESA/Hubble)/A.
Reiss (STScI/JHU)
and the SH0ES team/Digitized Sky Survey⁣⁣
⁣⁣ #Lennon80 #NASA #Galaxy #JohnLennon #Imagine⁣⁣