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  1. Volcanic Caldera on Io

    This photograph of Jupiter satellite Io taken by NASA Voyager 1 shows what appears to be a volcanic caldera that is venting gasses the bright blue patch at left center.

    More: images.nasa.gov/details/PIA000
    Credit: NASA/JPL

    #io #voyager #astrodon #astronomy #astrophotography #astrophysics

  2. Volcanic Caldera on Io

    This photograph of Jupiter satellite Io taken by NASA Voyager 1 shows what appears to be a volcanic caldera that is venting gasses the bright blue patch at left center.

    More: images.nasa.gov/details/PIA000
    Credit: NASA/JPL

    #io #voyager #astrodon #astronomy #astrophotography #astrophysics

  3. Volcanic Caldera on Io

    This photograph of Jupiter satellite Io taken by NASA Voyager 1 shows what appears to be a volcanic caldera that is venting gasses the bright blue patch at left center.

    More: images.nasa.gov/details/PIA000
    Credit: NASA/JPL

    #io #voyager #astrodon #astronomy #astrophotography #astrophysics

  4. Volcanic Caldera on Io

    This photograph of Jupiter satellite Io taken by NASA Voyager 1 shows what appears to be a volcanic caldera that is venting gasses the bright blue patch at left center.

    More: images.nasa.gov/details/PIA000
    Credit: NASA/JPL

    #io #voyager #astrodon #astronomy #astrophotography #astrophysics

  5. Volcanic Caldera on Io

    This photograph of Jupiter satellite Io taken by NASA Voyager 1 shows what appears to be a volcanic caldera that is venting gasses the bright blue patch at left center.

    More: images.nasa.gov/details/PIA000
    Credit: NASA/JPL

    #io #voyager #astrodon #astronomy #astrophotography #astrophysics

  6. The American Astronomical Society, the primary professional society of #astronomy and #astrophysics in the US, has two meetings every year. In each meeting, ~12-14 distinguished scientists and awardees are given plenary talks, a rare honor most astronomers will *not* receive in their career.

    By some conspiracy of fate, this summer we are having talks by both Carolyn Kierans AND Carolyn Kuranz.

    I dare not attempt to calculate the probability.
    #Astrodon #Academia #AcademicChatter

  7. Ganymede Global Geologic Map and Global Image Mosaic

    To present the best information in a single view of Jupiter moon Ganymede, a global image mosaic was assembled, incorporating the best available imagery from NASA Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft and NASA Galileo spacecraft.

    More: images.nasa.gov/details/PIA179
    Credit: USGS Astrogeology Science Center/Wheaton/NASA/JPL-Caltech

    #ganymede #voyager #astrodon #astronomy #astrophotography #astrophysics

  8. Cosmography alert 🚨

    Jim Peebles strikes again on flat patterns in the cosmic structure, with an update of the evidence supporting an extended plane of de Vaucouleurs' Local Supercluster.

    arxiv.org/abs/2605.11184

    #Cosmology #Cosmography #galaxies #Astronomy #Astrophysics #Astrodon #science #news #JimPeebles #PJEPeebles #Peebles #GérarddeVaucouleurs #supercluster #LocalSupercluster

  9. The Artemis II images browser is in a much better shape now, with separate collections for the Earth, Moon, and Eclipse images. A complete scientific data archive prepared by the lunar science team and peer-reviewed is to be released through NASA's PDS.

    eol.jsc.nasa.gov/Collections/A

    #Artemis #Earth #Moon #Eclipse #Artemis2 #NASA #space #Orion #OrionIntegrity #spacecraft #science #news #astrodon #photography

  10. The Artemis II images browser is in a much better shape now, with separate collections for the Earth, Moon, and Eclipse images. A complete scientific data archive prepared by the lunar science team and peer-reviewed is to be released through NASA's PDS.

    eol.jsc.nasa.gov/Collections/A

    #Artemis #Earth #Moon #Eclipse #Artemis2 #NASA #space #Orion #OrionIntegrity #spacecraft #science #news #astrodon #photography

  11. The Artemis II images browser is in a much better shape now, with separate collections for the Earth, Moon, and Eclipse images. A complete scientific data archive prepared by the lunar science team and peer-reviewed is to be released through NASA's PDS.

    eol.jsc.nasa.gov/Collections/A

    #Artemis #Earth #Moon #Eclipse #Artemis2 #NASA #space #Orion #OrionIntegrity #spacecraft #science #news #astrodon #photography

  12. The Artemis II images browser is in a much better shape now, with separate collections for the Earth, Moon, and Eclipse images. A complete scientific data archive prepared by the lunar science team and peer-reviewed is to be released through NASA's PDS.

    eol.jsc.nasa.gov/Collections/A

    #Artemis #Earth #Moon #Eclipse #Artemis2 #NASA #space #Orion #OrionIntegrity #spacecraft #science #news #astrodon #photography

  13. The Artemis II images browser is in a much better shape now, with separate collections for the Earth, Moon, and Eclipse images. A complete scientific data archive prepared by the lunar science team and peer-reviewed is to be released through NASA's PDS.

    eol.jsc.nasa.gov/Collections/A

    #Artemis #Earth #Moon #Eclipse #Artemis2 #NASA #space #Orion #OrionIntegrity #spacecraft #science #news #astrodon #photography

  14. Curiosity Blog, Sols 4886-4892: Ingenuity and Perseverance, Curiosity Style

    "While we know the monikers Ingenuity and Perseverance are attached to our sister helicopter and rover on the Mars 2020 mission, those characteristics were in full force with Curiosity over the past week."

    science.nasa.gov/blog/curiosit

    #Mars #Curiosity #science #news #astrodon #Atacama #stuck #geology #rover #CuriosityRover #space

  15. NASA’s Curiosity Takes Close Look at Rock That Got Stuck on Drill

    This mosaic is made up of eight images stitched together. The color has been approximately white-balanced to resemble how the scene would appear under daytime lighting conditions on Earth.

    science.nasa.gov/photojournal/

    #Mars #Curiosity #stuck #AtacamaDrillTarget #rover #CuriosityRover #space #geology #Astrodon #MSL #Martian #GaleCrater #MountSharp #AeolisMons #crater #science #STEM #news

  16. NASA’s Curiosity Takes Close Look at Rock That Got Stuck on Drill

    This mosaic is made up of eight images stitched together. The color has been approximately white-balanced to resemble how the scene would appear under daytime lighting conditions on Earth.

    science.nasa.gov/photojournal/

    #Mars #Curiosity #stuck #AtacamaDrillTarget #rover #CuriosityRover #space #geology #Astrodon #MSL #Martian #GaleCrater #MountSharp #AeolisMons #crater #science #STEM #news

  17. NASA’s Curiosity Takes Close Look at Rock That Got Stuck on Drill

    This mosaic is made up of eight images stitched together. The color has been approximately white-balanced to resemble how the scene would appear under daytime lighting conditions on Earth.

    science.nasa.gov/photojournal/

    #Mars #Curiosity #stuck #AtacamaDrillTarget #rover #CuriosityRover #space #geology #Astrodon #MSL #Martian #GaleCrater #MountSharp #AeolisMons #crater #science #STEM #news

  18. NASA’s Curiosity Takes Close Look at Rock That Got Stuck on Drill

    This mosaic is made up of eight images stitched together. The color has been approximately white-balanced to resemble how the scene would appear under daytime lighting conditions on Earth.

    science.nasa.gov/photojournal/

    #Mars #Curiosity #stuck #AtacamaDrillTarget #rover #CuriosityRover #space #geology #Astrodon #MSL #Martian #GaleCrater #MountSharp #AeolisMons #crater #science #STEM #news

  19. NASA’s Curiosity Takes Close Look at Rock That Got Stuck on Drill

    This mosaic is made up of eight images stitched together. The color has been approximately white-balanced to resemble how the scene would appear under daytime lighting conditions on Earth.

    science.nasa.gov/photojournal/

    #Mars #Curiosity #stuck #AtacamaDrillTarget #rover #CuriosityRover #space #geology #Astrodon #MSL #Martian #GaleCrater #MountSharp #AeolisMons #crater #science #STEM #news

  20. A fun detail in that photo of the two Lego telescope models in my previous post: that's the Very Large Telescope sitting on the right Nasmyth instrument platform of the Extremely Large Telescope. The two models are built to approximately the same scale, a VLT Unit Telescope (without its dome) really would fit on the instrument platform of the ELT, the jump in scale from the current generation of telescopes to the next is just that big.

    I'm 2024 I was lucky enough to be able to photograph the ELT from the VLT and vice versa, enabling me to make a size comparison of my own: aus.social/@spacelizard/113185

    #Astrodon #Astronomy #ELT #VLT #ESO #Telescope

  21. A fun detail in that photo of the two Lego telescope models in my previous post: that's the Very Large Telescope sitting on the right Nasmyth instrument platform of the Extremely Large Telescope. The two models are built to approximately the same scale, a VLT Unit Telescope (without its dome) really would fit on the instrument platform of the ELT, the jump in scale from the current generation of telescopes to the next is just that big.

    I'm 2024 I was lucky enough to be able to photograph the ELT from the VLT and vice versa, enabling me to make a size comparison of my own: aus.social/@spacelizard/113185

    #Astrodon #Astronomy #ELT #VLT #ESO #Telescope

  22. A fun detail in that photo of the two Lego telescope models in my previous post: that's the Very Large Telescope sitting on the right Nasmyth instrument platform of the Extremely Large Telescope. The two models are built to approximately the same scale, a VLT Unit Telescope (without its dome) really would fit on the instrument platform of the ELT, the jump in scale from the current generation of telescopes to the next is just that big.

    I'm 2024 I was lucky enough to be able to photograph the ELT from the VLT and vice versa, enabling me to make a size comparison of my own: aus.social/@spacelizard/113185

    #Astrodon #Astronomy #ELT #VLT #ESO #Telescope

  23. A fun detail in that photo of the two Lego telescope models in my previous post: that's the Very Large Telescope sitting on the right Nasmyth instrument platform of the Extremely Large Telescope. The two models are built to approximately the same scale, a VLT Unit Telescope (without its dome) really would fit on the instrument platform of the ELT, the jump in scale from the current generation of telescopes to the next is just that big.

    I'm 2024 I was lucky enough to be able to photograph the ELT from the VLT and vice versa, enabling me to make a size comparison of my own: aus.social/@spacelizard/113185

    #Astrodon #Astronomy #ELT #VLT #ESO #Telescope

  24. A fun detail in that photo of the two Lego telescope models in my previous post: that's the Very Large Telescope sitting on the right Nasmyth instrument platform of the Extremely Large Telescope. The two models are built to approximately the same scale, a VLT Unit Telescope (without its dome) really would fit on the instrument platform of the ELT, the jump in scale from the current generation of telescopes to the next is just that big.

    I'm 2024 I was lucky enough to be able to photograph the ELT from the VLT and vice versa, enabling me to make a size comparison of my own: aus.social/@spacelizard/113185

    #Astrodon #Astronomy #ELT #VLT #ESO #Telescope

  25. If you're more into Lego than 3D printing @esoastronomy still has you covered. There are parts lists and assembly instructions for Lego models of both the Extremely Large Telescope and the Very Large Telescope, eso.org/public/australia/annou

    #Lego #Astrodon #Astronomy #ELT #ESO #VLT #Telescope

  26. If you're more into Lego than 3D printing @esoastronomy still has you covered. There are parts lists and assembly instructions for Lego models of both the Extremely Large Telescope and the Very Large Telescope, eso.org/public/australia/annou

    #Lego #Astrodon #Astronomy #ELT #ESO #VLT #Telescope

  27. If you're more into Lego than 3D printing @esoastronomy still has you covered. There are parts lists and assembly instructions for Lego models of both the Extremely Large Telescope and the Very Large Telescope, eso.org/public/australia/annou

    #Lego #Astrodon #Astronomy #ELT #ESO #VLT #Telescope

  28. If you're more into Lego than 3D printing @esoastronomy still has you covered. There are parts lists and assembly instructions for Lego models of both the Extremely Large Telescope and the Very Large Telescope, eso.org/public/australia/annou

    #Lego #Astrodon #Astronomy #ELT #ESO #VLT #Telescope

  29. If you're more into Lego than 3D printing @esoastronomy still has you covered. There are parts lists and assembly instructions for Lego models of both the Extremely Large Telescope and the Very Large Telescope, eso.org/public/australia/annou

    #Lego #Astrodon #Astronomy #ELT #ESO #VLT #Telescope

  30. If you have a 3D printer that you're not using (or, better yet, several of them) and you're looking for a project, here's an Extremely Large one for you: a printable 3D model of @esoastronomy's Extremely Large Telescope, eso.org/public/products/models

    There are a *lot* of parts, many of which are small and intricately detailed. It would be a time consuming challenge to print and assemble, but it must be possible because there are photos of the resulting model bundled with the STEP file.

    #3Dprinting #Astronomy #Astrodon #ELT #ESO_ELT #Telescope

  31. If you have a 3D printer that you're not using (or, better yet, several of them) and you're looking for a project, here's an Extremely Large one for you: a printable 3D model of @esoastronomy's Extremely Large Telescope, eso.org/public/products/models

    There are a *lot* of parts, many of which are small and intricately detailed. It would be a time consuming challenge to print and assemble, but it must be possible because there are photos of the resulting model bundled with the STEP file.

    #3Dprinting #Astronomy #Astrodon #ELT #ESO_ELT #Telescope