Comet Giacobini–Zinner And The Heart And Soul Nebulae

COSMOS: A Personal Voyage (1980) written by Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan, and Steven Soter

Perseverance Rover’s Descent and Touchdown on Mars (Official NASA Video)

This is beyond amazing.

This is the Tarantula Nebula! 🕷🕸🕷🕸🕷🕸

This star forming region is so big that it is 160,000 light years across! At it’s center, there are a bunch of stars totalling 450,000 solar masses that produce the Tarantula Nebula’s high luminosity and will likely become a vibrant globular cluster. ✨✨✨

Taken by me (Michelle Park) using the Slooh Chile One telescope on November 16th, 2020 at 5:27 UTC.

This is Caldwell 109! 🎆🎆🎆

This “phantom snowball” planetary nebula shows ornate, beautiful shapes like spirals of gas that we’ll likely see when the Sun dies as well. It was also the last picture I needed to finish my Caldwell collection - such a great way to end a remarkable astrophotography experience! 🍭🍭🍭

Taken by me (Michelle Park) using the Slooh Canary Two telescope on November 10th, 2020 at 02:22 UTC.

LDN 1622, Dark Angel

Hello!! Its wonderful to be able to ask questions, thank you!

About Perseverance, does it have a self-repair option? And as Curiosity is still operational, will they run missions together? Or will they split up to cover more distance?

Is this a sign that we're close to being able to set foot on Mars?

My final question is how do you receive the messages from such a long distance?

Thanks for all your hard work! 加油/Good luck!

“Is this a sign that we are close to being able to set foot on Mars?”

Looks like I’m giving this dead blog a new purpose - a thoughts board on protecting modern society and the advancement of eco-friendly technological domination*.

(*Not dominating the world, but the market.)

Lithium is running out on Earth. We’ve detected at most, 70 years’ worth of lithium in the crust. We have less than that much time to figure out how to mine ice asteroids containing lithium to bring back to Earth, as well as mining lithium from Mars.

Mars is a corpse of a planet and can never be revived, so it’s better to try to convert it into a mining planet - unless we figure out how to restore and repair a planet’s magnetic field and core. Mars’ core is not solid enough. It’s not worth it to even consider turning it into a New Eden for humanity. I will be spending time attempting to learn everything possibly required to even be qualified to give an opinion on astronomy, astrophysics/physics, chemistry, and environmental science. My best won’t be the best, but hey. I do what I can. If anybody knows something about trying to live without lithium and still have a society that lives with eco-pos technology to keep thriving and surviving on this miserable little ball of suffocation, please do share.

Purple dreaming ✨ gifs made by me :)

2020 March 25

Star Forming Region S106 Image Credit: NASA, ESA, Hubble Legacy Archive; Processing & Copyright: Utkarsh Mishra

Explanation: Massive star IRS 4 is beginning to spread its wings. Born only about 100,000 years ago, material streaming out from this newborn star has formed the nebula dubbed Sharpless 2-106 Nebula (S106), featured here. A large disk of dust and gas orbiting Infrared Source 4 (IRS 4), visible in brown near the image center, gives the nebula an hourglass or butterfly shape. S106 gas near IRS 4 acts as an emission nebula as it emits light after being ionized, while dust far from IRS 4 reflects light from the central star and so acts as a reflection nebula. Detailed inspection of a relevant infrared image of S106 reveal hundreds of low-mass brown dwarf stars lurking in the nebula’s gas. S106 spans about 2 light-years and lies about 2000 light-years away toward the constellation of the Swan (Cygnus).

∞ Source: apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap200325.html

NGC 7023, Iris Nebula