The Orion Nebula.
Credit: NASA, ESA and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)
“There is not perhaps another object in the heavens that presents us with such a variety of extraordinary phenomena as the planet Saturn.”
—Sir William Herschel (1738-1822)
Planet Saturn and its moons Tethys and Dione were, photographed by the Voyager 1 space probe in November of 1980.
Jupiter’s moon, Callisto.
This is Pumpkin
The Pleiades and Jupiter over the Subaru telescope, an 8.2-meter optical-infrared telescope situated at the summit of Mauna Kea, Hawaii and operated by the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan.
Subaru is the name of the Pleiades open star cluster in Japanese!
Proxima Centauri, The Closest Star
Just a socially awkward college student with an interest in the celestial bodies in our universe.
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