It’s a planet parade! 🪐
Before sunrise, you can catch a naked-eye glimpse of planets (and our Moon!) “lined up” in the sky.
But if you aren’t a morning person, Hubble’s got you covered with planetary views! Swipe through to see of Jupiter, Saturn, Mars, and Venus!
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Archival data from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope helped detect the spectral signature of the vaporised debris that revealed a combination of rocky-metallic and icy material, the ingredients of planets. The findings help describe the violent nature of evolved planetary systems and the composition of its disintegrating bodies.
The findings are based on analysing material captured by the atmosphere of the nearby white dwarf star G238-44. A white dwarf is what remains of a star like our Sun after it sheds its outer layers and stops burning fuel through nuclear fusion.
This illustration shows a white dwarf star syphoning off debris from shattered objects in a planetary system.
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Illustration credit: NASA / @europeanspaceagency , J. Olmsted ( @space_telescopes )
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A dead star is siphoning off debris from its planetary system’s inner and outer reaches!
With the help of Hubble, astronomers observed this white dwarf star that’s consuming both rocky-metallic and icy material – the ingredients of planets!
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Here's some perspective: Earth as viewed from 10,000 miles, or about 16,000 kilometers away.
This image was taken on Nov. 9, 1967, by the uncrewed Apollo 4 spacecraft as it orbited Earth. The flight was a test of high speed reentry required of a crewed flight returning from the Moon. Less than two years later, humanity would walk on the lunar surface.
Credit: NASA
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As time GOES by. 🛰
A little more than 22,000 miles (34,000 kilometers) above Earth, the newest @NOAA Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) has released its first photos. Locked in a geostationary orbit, GOES-18 covers the same section of Earth – over the western contiguous United States, Alaska, Hawaii, Mexico, Central America, and parts of South America and the Pacific Ocean.
The GOES satellites are the most advanced weather-monitoring satellites in the Western Hemisphere; they provide high-resolution imagery, atmospheric measurements, and lightning maps of our home planet, all in real-time, and monitor space weather with enhanced solar imaging and an upgraded magnetometer - which measures magnetic field variations.
GOES-18 will help meteorologists and scientists monitor storms, wildfires, hurricanes, and climate change.
Credit: NOAA/NASA
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