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The European Space Agency’s Mars Express captured beautiful photos of Mars’s South Pole, which depicts an icy, craggy area, dressed in a gradient of purples, pinks, and reds. This area is known as Thyles Rupes — ‘Rupes’ being latin for cliff and ‘Thyles’ being Thule.
September 18, 2026 at 6:29 PM
The European Space Agency’s Mars Express captured beautiful photos of Mars’s South Pole, which depicts an icy, craggy area, dressed in a gradient of purples, pinks, and reds. This area is known as Thyles Rupes — ‘Rupes’ being latin for cliff and ‘Thyles’ being Thule.
NGC 4698, a spiral galaxy around 55 million-light years away in the constellation Virgo may appear as a typical spiral galaxy akin to the Milky Way and other spiral galaxies — but that isn’t necessarily the case for NGC 4698.
September 18, 2026 at 6:25 PM
NGC 4698, a spiral galaxy around 55 million-light years away in the constellation Virgo may appear as a typical spiral galaxy akin to the Milky Way and other spiral galaxies — but that isn’t necessarily the case for NGC 4698.
Ringing in the eve of the New Year with NGC 6946 (aka the Fireworks Galaxy), an intermediate spiral galaxy around 25 million light-years away, bordering the constellations Cepheus and Cygnus.
Image Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/MSSL/R.Soria et al, Optical: AURA/Gemini OBs
Image Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/MSSL/R.Soria et al, Optical: AURA/Gemini OBs
December 31, 2024 at 8:30 AM
Ringing in the eve of the New Year with NGC 6946 (aka the Fireworks Galaxy), an intermediate spiral galaxy around 25 million light-years away, bordering the constellations Cepheus and Cygnus.
Image Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/MSSL/R.Soria et al, Optical: AURA/Gemini OBs
Image Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/MSSL/R.Soria et al, Optical: AURA/Gemini OBs
🪩 Name something prettier… Neptune won’t wait.
Image Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI
Image Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI
December 29, 2024 at 5:34 PM
🪩 Name something prettier… Neptune won’t wait.
Image Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI
Image Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI