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Hubble Reveals The Beauty And Mystery Of Saturn’s Rings

“Right now, in Earth’s skies, Saturn appears at its biggest and brightest. Just look to the southeastern skies (from the northern hemisphere), slightly east of bright Jupiter. With Earth between the Sun and Saturn, it’s poised for spectacular viewing. But the true star of Saturn is its main rings, now tilted for excellent views.”

I wish we had a dedicated mission, constantly, for each of the outer planets. There’s so much out there to explore and learn about, and there’s no view like the view from actually being there. But in the absence of that, the Hubble Space Telescope is a very, very pleasing consolation prize, capable of imaging these worlds every year at incredible resolution, even from over a billion kilometers away.

Take a look at these views of Saturn, and marvel at the incredible ring system. If you want to see it for yourself, now’s the perfect time!

March 2, 1979 – Astonishing glimpses of planet Jupiter made by the Voyager 1 space probe. (NASA)

December 17, 1972 – Beautiful shots of the Moon captured by the astronauts of Apollo 17 as their command module began the voyage back to Earth.

(NASA/ASU)

Moon and Venus

Out doing a shoot this evening and couldnt resist this shot. 

Sharpless 308: Star Bubble by Anis Abdul

Humboldt’s Distribution of Plants in Equinoctial America by Alexander von Humboldt (1841)

The World’s Smallest Snowman stands less than 3 microns tall.  The snowman was fabricated from three 0.9 micron silica spheres stacked with the use of electron beam lithography.  The eyes and mouth were cut with a focused ion beam while the arms and nose were sculpted with platinum.

Kyoto Prefecture, Japan by Norihiro Kataoka

Iceland

by: Craig Howes

Vík í Mýrdal - Iceland (by Eric Montfort) 

Lightning Appreciation Post:

There are nearly 500 lightning strikes every second around the world.

Only about 100 of these strike the earth, the others are between and within the clouds themselves.

Lightning is very visible from space (last gif from Astronaut Reid Wiseman)

Besides regular storms (thunder storms, hurricanes, etc.) lightning can be found in volcanoes (gif 3) and even intense forest fires.

In conclusion: nature is fucking awesome!

A photo of Saturn. Took by Cassini with COISS on March 04, 2005 at 19:37:26. Detail page on OPUS database.

Björk｜Debut (1993)

by daniel_ernst

Bruno Hans Bürgel - Aus Fernen Welten, 1920.

Auroras Larger Than Earth Spotted Over Jupiter

Vintage photographs of Aurora Borealis.

Alphonse Mucha | The Months - December, 1899.

Hillsboro, Oregon

by: Nick Verbelchuk

Skeikampen

by: Sondre Eriksen

Plate 14. Nebulae. (Now “galaxy” is used to denote the feature in Andromeda.) An atlas of astronomy. 1892.

Dyrhólaey, Iceland.

ice flower

by Denny Bitte

SOMEI