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Annular Eclipse After Sunrise

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NGC 6357: The Lobster Nebula

MelodyandBarbells

@cee134. Just promise you'll stay forever and ever posting awesome pics and videos. Love your thread!

Timshel_

You wanna geek out a bit, NASA jus telease a whole bunch of software!

https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-releases-software-catalog-granting-the-public-free-access-to-technologies-for

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Colorful Aurora over Iceland

MelodyandBarbells

MeeseeksAndDestroy wrote: »

The planets in the TRAPPIST-1 system are so close to their star they are most likely tidally locked to it the way our moon is tidally locked to Earth. So the "sun" wouldn't be "rising and setting". Contemplating what it'd be like to live there...we'd have no idea what time it is. But since they're so close you would see the other planets, like on TRAPPIST-1c you'd see TRAPPIST-1b swing by every day and a half or so. Professor Adam Burgasser described it as "It's TRAPPIST-1b o'clock"

So at first I was certain what the population distribution on a TRAPPIST-1 planet would look like, but now I'm not so sure. Would you want to live where it's daylight all the time, or night time all the time?

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The Bubble Nebula

NorthCascades

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Encedalus. The image was taken in visible light with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on Nov. 27, 2016.