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We report, as we are settling in for the second night of the peak of the Orionids meteor shower: the stars are noisy tonight, there is a constant chatter in the sky. We have seen a few meteors so far, bright and loud too, for how far as they seem to be. The sky is shaking.
Hello, gorgeous🖤
Two of @NASAWebb's powerful instruments allowed it to capture images of an exoplanet 355 light-years away. Each has a coronagraph that blocks the brighter starlight to allow the planet to shine in four different bands of infrared light. https://t.co/edLj7A6r2C
A glittering gathering of stars ✨
This spectacular #HubbleFriday view shows the globular cluster NGC 6558, about 23,000 light-years away.
Globular clusters are groups of stars bound together by gravity: https://t.co/E2ZiApap9M
355 light-years away, an exoplanet orbits far enough from its star that @NASAWebb was able to get an image. Four of them, in fact, through four different instruments! These beautiful blobs of light show a world more massive than Jupiter. They're gorgeous! https://t.co/edLj7A6r2C
The misconception that there is no sound in space originates because most space is a ~vacuum, providing no way for sound waves to travel. A galaxy cluster has so much gas that we've picked up actual sound. Here it's amplified, and mixed with other data, to hear a black hole!