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New picture of Jupiter’s ring and moons taken from James Webb Space Telescope

More JWST composites! This time, a MIRI composite of the IC 5332 galaxy

Comet C/2017 K2 (PANSTAARS) with M10 Star Cluster

Bloomy accretion disk

[OC] International Space Station ( ISS ) captured with manual tracking from UK

constellations, me, acrylic [oc]

Starting #OTD in 1994, Hubble captured an extraordinary event on Jupiter! Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 broke into large pieces and rained down upon the planet’s clouds, creating visible impact scars. This was the first time astronomers witnessed such an event: https://t.co/jFivl06hRn https://t.co/Pvz6LUT1cR

The #Apollo11 astronauts launched aboard the mighty Saturn V rocket. Learn more about their journey to the Moon and the rocket and spacecraft that got them there: https://t.co/SIQBnU47ai https://t.co/oP1xyZMkJL

Interacting galaxies NGC 7752 and NGC 7753. They are located roughly 220 million light-years away in the constellation Pegasus. [3908 x 3880] (Credit: NASA/ESA/Hubble, Dark Energy Survey)

The Summer Triangle.

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The solar system is the collection of planets and their moons in orbit around the sun, together with smaller bodies in the form of asteroids, meteroids, and comets. Our planety system is the only one that is officially called the solar system. There are a total of 8 planets in our solar system, along with 9 dwarf planets, over 200 moons, over 1 million asteroids (most of them located in the main asteroid belt) over 50,000 meteroids, and over 3,700 comets. There is, however, only one star in the solar system that we know of - the sun. The solar system formed about 4.6 billion years ago, when a cloud of gas and dust called the solar nebula collapsed, probably due to a shock wave from a nearby supernova explosion. The diameter of the solar system is about 287.46 billion kilometers or 1,921.56 astronomical units. The solar systems shape can be described as an Ellipse, or a plane curve surrounding two focal points.

Rogozin removed as head of Roscosmos as ISS seat barter agreement signed

Our colleague Francisco Tapia just sent us this lovely image of our La Silla observatory in Chile covered in snow 🤩☃️ Credit: F. Tapia https://t.co/cyPv1PmAbU

Plastic model airplanes first hit the market in 1931. Discover their journey from hobby shop reject to coveted collectors item in the latest issue of Air & Space Quarterly. https://t.co/UJ9iNABoym

And speaking of Jupiter, did you see @NASAWebb's Jupiter image earlier this week? This image, taken during Webb's commissioning period, shows the planet in infrared light and even captured its moon Europa. Find out more here: https://t.co/sgtOLSKOO3 https://t.co/uVpk5ihfiP