This Is Betelgeuse! ✨✨✨

Feeling blue by Hubble Space Telescope / ESA

I love being an unpleasant hairy little woman. I eat some bread and I laugh loudly. I pet my cat. I apologize to no one. Sometimes I make rude noises.

only got called sir once today! @tombis-and-tomcats

…you are welcome here!

What the hell are Comets, Meteroids, and Asteroids?

SEE BELOW TO FIND OUT

COMET

Made of ice, rock and dust.

They originate outside our solar system

HUGE. like miles wide. Big boys.

They orbit the sun.

They have that tail thingy.

METEOROID

Small. Like could be a grain of sand

Rocky or metal

They originate from comets or asteroids aka they are the bits that fall off

They orbit the sun

Can fall to earth but then they are called a meteor (if they vaporize in the atmosphere) or a meteorite (if they hit earth)

ASTEROID

Also made of rock or metal

Are larger than a meteoroid and historically if an object is larger than 10 meters across, they are called an asteroid

Also orbit the sun because the sun is so damn popular but they are generally between Mars and Jupiter

Saturn, rings and moons seen by the Cassini spacecraft wow!

Image credit: NASA/JPL (original video)

Today I learned that in the first Olympics that had women’s weightlifting, the united states weightlifter (who was 17 years old) set a U.S. record that hasn’t been beaten. She’s one of the most decorated female athletes in U.S history.

Her name is Cheryl Haworth, and this is her:

And this is her and her wife:

Taking advantage of a total lunar eclipse, astronomers using our Hubble Space Telescope have detected ozone in our atmosphere. Why’s this important? 🔭 Researchers can now use this new method – and space telescopes – to continue the search for life in our universe. Find out more HERE. 

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