@Regrann from @apolloprogram – The Moon was the most spectacularly beautiful desert you can ever imagine. Unspoiled, untouched. It had a vibrancy about it and the contrast between the Moon and the black sky was so vivid and… it just made this impression, you know, of excitement and wonder. Charlie Duke Apollo 16
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Mz 3 (Menzel 3) is a young bipolar planetary nebula in the constellation Norma that is composed of a bright core and four distinct high-velocity outflows that have been named lobes, columns, rays, and chakram. These nebulosities are described as: two spherical bipolar lobes, two outer large filamentary hour-glass shaped columns, two cone shaped rays,
Gene Cernan \ »Oh, man. Hey, Jack, just stop. You owe yourself 30 seconds to look up over the South Massif and look at the Earth!\ » Jack Schmitt: \ »What? The Earth?\ » Gene Cernan: \ »Just look up there.\ » Jack Schmitt: \ »Ah! You seen one Earth, you’ve seen them all!\ »
Watch out for the blast!
ESA/Hubble #Flashback: The star cluster Westerlund 2. https://t.co/c4DBKzUtnL https://t.co/Yg8HqR3b8y
French astronaut Thomas Pesquet managed to capture this image of the moon lurking behind the solar panels of the International Space Station. Pesquet also tweeted about a possible return to the moon soon, after years of not visiting it. Photo Credit – ESA/NASA
Hubble observe un mégamaser cosmique Des galaxies entières sont le siège de mégamasers, un analogue de l’effet laser mais dans le domaine des micro-ondes. L’un d’entre eux, plus puissant que l’Étoile de la mort de Star Wars, observé par le télescope spatial Hubble, résulte de la collision de deux galaxies.
\ »Sidera addere caelo\ » – \ »Ajouter des étoiles au ciel\ » disait Erasme �� Merci @thom_astro pour ce concours littéraire depuis l’espace ! La 8ème planète du Petit Prince est désormais entre les mains des petits rédacteurs terrestres. ������