Solar System

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A gigantic ribbon of hot gas bursts upwards from the Sun, guided by a giant loop of invisible magnetism. This remarkable image was captured on 27 July 1999 by SOHO.

Mt. Saint Helens

Crescent Moon rising through a subtle display of noctilucent clouds.

New image of Atacama Desert by ESO

New image of Rhea by Cassini. Rhea, like many moons in the outer Solar System, appears dazzlingly bright in full sunlight. This is the signature of the water ice that forms most of the moon's surface.

New image of Ceres by Dawn

 

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Acadia National Park

Mars today

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Faintest hisses from space reveal famous star's past life

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NOAA's GOES-East satellite captured a visible image of Earl at 1:30 p.m. EDT on Aug. 2, 2016. Earl is a small storm. An area of strong thunderstorms was forming near or over the center.

The low angle of sunlight creates stark shadows in this Cerean scene.

OSIRIS wide-angle camera images taken on July 2016, when Rosetta was 9.1 km from the center of Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko.


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Latest discoveries

 

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Latest news:

 

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That woman in the videos has an annoying nasal voice and accent.
It makes her hard to understand.

 

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@Caring1 Yeah, sometimes I rewind or turn subtitles on. But anyway their channel is great. Latest discoveries, straight to the point, short and informative and no bullshit.

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NASA's SDO saw a lunar transit – when the moon passes between the spacecraft and the sun – on Aug. 2, 2016, from 7:13 a.m. to 8:08 a.m. EDT.

This view from NASA's Dawn spacecraft features Liber Crater (14 miles, 23 km wide) in Ceres' northern hemisphere, at right.


Latest videos:

 

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How did I end up on You Tube, I seem to get lost in there for hours

 

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Amazing pictures and videos, i was mesmerized transfixed by the various stary vistas until i saw this:

Now i cant get this out my head

 

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^ loooooooool


Here's another bunch of new videos by ESA, NASA and CAASTRO

TESS, ROSETTA, Curiosity, SpaceToGround, Redshift explanation and much more:

 

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This image shows an unnamed impact feature that lies on the northern rim of Chaminuka Crater in Ceres' southern hemisphere.

The shadow of Saturn on the rings, which stretched across all of the rings earlier in Cassini's mission, now barely makes it past the Cassini division.

Curiosity drills Mars / Lol that didn't come out right

Mankind sucks, doesn't it?

Bad (or maybe good ) news for particle physicists?

 

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Latest news

Rao crater on Ceres

Impressive image of the Sun

Aurora from ISS. @ste2425 might like this picture lol. Yeah yeah cannot be unseen.

Swirling pastels of Saturn's clouds appear majestic in this infrared view

 

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ESA's VLT

A view of the Sun on 23 May 1967, in a narrow visible wavelength of light called Hydrogen-alpha. The bright region in the top center shows the area where the large flare occurred.

A solar storm that jammed radar and radio communications at the height of the Cold War could have led to a disastrous military conflict if not for the U.S. Air Force's budding efforts to monitor the Sun's activity, a new study finds.

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Look Up! Perseid Meteor Shower Peaks Aug. 11-12

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Some cool read:


Most Volcanic Activity on Mercury Stopped About 3.5 Billion Years Ago

Humanity may not need a warp drive to go interstellar

NASA releases over 1000 new images of the Red Planet and don't forget to check out this beautifully rendered image of Mawrth Vallis by Kevin Gill:

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Sun on August 10

 

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Latest news:

Weird object spotted beyond Neptune. Named Niku

NASA Climate Modeling Suggests Venus May Have Been Habitable

 

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Perseid meteor shower

Amazing photo of San and its activity

New images from Mars and Ceres

TEN TRILLIONTHS OF YOUR SUNTAN COMES FROM BEYOND OUR GALAXY

RELATIVITY: HOW IT WORKS

 

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This image of Mercury was posted by @CAPSLOCKSTUCK before but link died so here's the repost.

New processed 2160p video of Mercury

New beautiful images

New images of Mars by Curiosity and Opportunity rovers

Strands and arches of plasma streamed above the edge of the Sun for over a day, pulled by powerful magnetic forces (Aug. 11-12, 2016). The tug and pull of material heated to ~ 60000 degrees C was viewed in extreme UV light. This kind of dynamic flow of material is rather common, though this grouping was larger than most. Credit: Solar Dynamics Observatory, NASA.

Saturn's moons Tethys (the larger body on the left) and Hyperion appear to be near neighbors in this Cassini view, even though they are actually 1.5 million km apart here.

 

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New Earth images from ISS

Coronal Hole

OSIRIS wide-angle camera images taken on 10-11 August 2016, when Rosetta was 12.8 km from the centre of Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko.

 

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Curiosity at Mars

Planetary alignment

New image of Ceres

New image from ISS

Even novae need to hibernate

Brilliant video by NAOJ

 

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Venus may have been first planet to sustain life

Arctic Sea Ice and the Impact of Record Summer Heat

Solar Storms

Lost in Light, a short film on how light pollution affects the view of the night skies. Shot mostly in California, the movie shows how the view gets progressively better as you move away from the lights.

When Black Holes Collide

 

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New short and extremely informative video by Carnegie Institution

I totally forgot what Mercator projection is. I'm really glad I watched this video:

Some new images:

Stereo image of Martian land by Curiosity:

NASA's Dawn spacecraft captured this tortured landscape just south of Ghanan Crater on Ceres.

Comet Lovejoy Visits La Silla Observatory

Dione reveals its past via contrasts in this view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft. The features visible here are a mixture of tectonics -- the bright, linear features -- and impact cratering -- the round features, which are spread across the entire surface.

 

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OSIRIS narrow-angle camera image taken on 15 August 2016, when Rosetta was 6.7 km from the centre of Comet 67P.

NASA's Dawn spacecraft spied this relatively smooth area of Ceres.

Large impact craters rebound from the initial shock, raising deep bedrock to the surface in the central uplift of the crater. (Mars)


Latest news:

A Stroll through the ALMA Array Operations Site (360 Video)

 

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Nasa reveals stunning simulation of Daphnis up close


The images created by Kevin Gill, a software engineer at Nasa’s Jet Propulsion Lab, illustrates the interactions between Daphnis and Saturn’s ring system.

While the photos captured by Cassini show this from a great distance, Gill’s renditions reveal a close-up look at the effects of the tiny moon on the Keeler Gap, as it induces a wavy pattern along the edge.

The Keeler Gap is roughly 26 miles wide and lies in Saturn’s A Ring, about 155 miles from the outer edge, according to Universe Today.

While Daphnis is far smaller – just under 5 miles in diameter – it has a powerful effect on this system.

Based on images from the Cassini craft, scientists found that Daphnis induces a wavy pattern in the edge of the Keeler Gap that extends nearly a mile above the ring.

This is the result of the tiny moon’s slight inclination toward the ring’s plane.

This shows the ripples caused by Daphnis along the edge of the A Ring, along with the moon’s position in relation to the system, which causes the waves to reach upward.

 

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Great Salt Lake, the largest salt lake in the western hemisphere, captured by ESA's Proba-V satellite last June.


Scientific American & New Scientist videos about Earth-like exoplanet Proxima b:

And other fun stuff:

 

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Turkey's Third Bosphorus Bridge

Namibia

This image shows ESO’s La Silla Observatory, where domes housing some of the most advanced astronomical instruments in the world sit beneath a sky shimmering with stars.

Ceres

OSIRIS narrow-angle camera image taken on 24 August 2016, when Rosetta was 9.3 km from the center of Comet 67P

Saturn's B ring

 

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Latest exciting news:

 

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New images of Mars:

Earth from Space