AstronomyBit
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"The universe is a pretty big place. If it's just us, seems like an awful waste of space."
- Carl Sagan
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Jupiter Retrograde explained! 🪐✨
Making water in real-time at the atomic scale! 🔬💧
This microscopic video shows hydrogen and oxygen atoms combining on a nanoparticle to create tiny water bubbles. A huge breakthrough for generating water during deep space travel! 🌌
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Approaching the point of no return... 🌌
Extreme gravity warps space and light around a supermassive black hole via gravitational lensing - making the back of its accretion disk appear above and below the event horizon. ⚫
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Dueling Bands over the Atacama Desert: The Milky Way (left) vs. Zodiacal Light (right), a beam of sunlight scattered by dust in the Solar System. ✨
📷 Julien Looten
Earth’s atmospheric shield glowing softly in the dark. 🌍✨
Captured from the ISS, this view highlights the delicate line of airglow separating our home from the deep expanse of space.
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A planet that orbits a black hole?! Here is what life would look like where time moves slower and tides are 5x bigger than Earth’s! 🌍⚫
📹 @astro_kobi
