Young Stars Of NGC 346 : The Massive Stars Of NGC 346 Are Short Lived, But Very Energetic. The Star Cluster

Space Shuttle Atlantis launch, 3 October 1985.

HiPOD: Mesa Stratigraphy at Terby Crater

A 2 to 3 kilometer sequence of stratigraphy exposed across three mesas in the northeastern portion of Terby Crater likely capture a diverse range of sedimentary rock types that include deposition across all of the three major Martian geologic eras: Noachian, Hesperian and Amazonian. (These epochs date back billions of years.) We can create digital terrain models o measure bedding dips at these key locations. (Enhanced color cutouts are less than 1 km across.)

ID: ESP_074888_1520 date: 18 July 2022 altitude: 260 km

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The Tadpoles of IC 410 : This telescopic close-up shows off the central regions of otherwise faint emission nebula IC 410, captured under backyard suburban skies with narrowband filters. It also features two remarkable inhabitants of the cosmic pond of gas and dust. Below and right of center are the tadpoles of IC 410. Partly obscured by foreground dust, the nebula itself surrounds NGC 1893, a young galactic cluster of stars. Formed in the interstellar cloud a mere 4 million years ago, the intensely hot, bright cluster stars energize the glowing gas. Composed of denser cooler gas and dust, the tadpoles are around 10 light-years long and are likely sites of ongoing star formation. Sculpted by stellar winds and radiation their heads are outlined by bright ridges of ionized gas while their tails trail away from the cluster’s central young stars. IC 410 lies some 10,000 light-years away, toward the nebula-rich constellation Auriga. via NASA

This impressive storm captured by Geoff Green over West Australia in August 2018, gives you an idea of the huge frequency at which lightning happen in an extreme weather event

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Art G.Shvecova (Design graphics - Blue Nebula_140318)

LUNAR CHRISTMAS – On December 24, 1968, the astronauts of Apollo 8 became the first humans to orbit the Moon. They captured this sequence of amazing images along the way. (NASA)

Welcome planet Mercury in a 1970 illustration by David A. Hardy for Vision of Tomorrow. (AstroArt)

Dark Spot and Jovian ‘Galaxy’ - This enhanced-color image of a mysterious dark spot on Jupiter seems to reveal a Jovian “galaxy” of swirling storms. Juno acquired this JunoCam image on Feb. 2, 2017, at an altitude of 9,000 miles (14,500 kilometers) above the giant planet’s cloud tops. This publicly selected target was simply titled “Dark Spot.” In ground-based images it was difficult to tell that it is a dark storm. Citizen scientist Roman Tkachenko enhanced the color to bring out the rich detail in the storm and surrounding clouds. Just south of the dark storm is a bright, oval-shaped storm with high, bright, white clouds, reminiscent of a swirling galaxy. As a final touch, he rotated the image 90 degrees, turning the picture into a work of art.

Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Roman Tkachenko

Weird Anomaly by Edmund Chan  

The first step on the Moon, illustrated by Norman Rockwell for Look, 1967.