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Happy Valentine’s Day, Sol-mate! ☀️☺️
This heart-shaped CME was captured last year, but it’s too cute to not share again! #valentinesday #heliophysics #sunscience #NASAValentines
A heart-shaped coronal mass ejection from the Sun, with the text “Happy Valentine’s Day, Sol-mate!”
February 14, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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Happy Valentines Day! 🖤
Our hearts may be black, but they beat with the births of thousands of stars. You?
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In this wispy star-forming region, called W5, the oldest stars can be seen as blue dots in the centers of the two hollow cavities (other blue dots are background and foreground stars not associated with the region). Younger stars line the rims of the cavities, and some can be seen as dots at the tips of the elephant-trunk-like pillars. The white knotty areas are where the youngest stars are forming. The cavity has a heart shaped surrounded by wisps of red. W5 spans an area of sky equivalent to four full moons and is about 6,500 light-years away in the constellation Cassiopeia. The Spitzer picture was taken over a period of 24 hours.
February 14, 2024 at 5:25 PM
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Send your loved ones some #NASAValentines! 💌

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Text on Webb's image of the "Cosmic Cliffs" in the Carina Nebula reads: "I'm starry-eyed for you" in a curlicue font. The image is divided horizontally by an undulating line between a cloudscape forming a nebula along the bottom portion and a comparatively clear upper portion. Speckled across both portions is a starfield, showing innumerable stars of many sizes. The largest of these appear with 8-point diffraction spikes. The upper portion of the image is blueish, and has wispy translucent cloud-like streaks rising from the nebula below. The orangish cloudy formation in the bottom half varies in density and ranges from translucent to opaque. The cloud-like structure of the nebula contains ridges, peaks, and valleys – an appearance very similar to a mountain range. Text on Webb's image of galaxy pair Il ZW 96 reads: "JWST the two of us." Two merging galaxies form a heart-like shape. The cores of the galaxies are colored blue, and one is above and to the right of the other. These two cores are surrounded by bright tendrils of coral-colored star-forming regions. Some of these tendrils form the curve of the right half of the "heart." The right galaxy is a mostly regular spiral shape, while the lower left galaxy has been distorted into a much more condensed bun. This "bun" is what helps shape the bottom point of the "heart." To the left of the lower galactic core is a particularly bright star-formation clump with faint diffraction spikes. Separate from the galaxies, there is also a semi-transparent arc of pale dust making up the top curve of the left half of the "heart." The background is black, and many tiny distant galaxies dot the scene. Text on Webb's mid-infrared image of spiral galaxy M51 reads: "My Head is Swirling with Thoughts of You" in a cursive font. The image shows a mostly bright white core that also features swirling, detailed structures resembling water circling a drain. There is white and pale blue light that emanates from stars and dust at the core’s center, but it is tightly limited to the core. The detailed rings feature bands of deep orange and cloudy gray, which are interspersed by darker empty regions throughout. Image of the Webb telescope's gold-coated, hexagonal primary mirror, with text that reads: "Our love is golden!" The mirror is made up of 18 segments, with a black "nose cone" at the center. The silver arms (struts) that hold up Webb's secondary mirror are folded up, forming an inverted V shape on top of the primary mirror. In the background is the Northrop Grumman cleanroom, distinguished by a dark blue line running across the bright white walls.
February 14, 2024 at 4:01 PM