Webb Highlights the Velvet-Like Lining of Dust Throughout This Star-Forming Region, Including Shells Around Actively Forming Stars

✨As seen above the Pillars of Creation appear otherworldly in mid-infrared light. NASA’S James Webb Space Telescope has captured an incredible scene that is large and lofty – and appears lit by flickering lanterns. A “ghost” haunts the crag in the lower left, a gargoyle-like shape snarls toward the middle of the frame, and a dark horse’s head charges out of the edge of the second pillar.

Instead, dust in Webb’s image is like the dawn. It is an essential ingredient for star formation. Though cloaked, these pillars are bursting with activity. Newly forming stars hide within these dark gray chambers, and others, like red rubies, have jumped into view. Over time, Webb’s mid-infrared image will allow researchers to deeply explore the gas and dust in this region, and more precisely model how stars form over millions of years✨

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'Planet killer' asteroid hiding in sun's glare could smash into Earth one day☄😱

✨Asteroids of this size are big enough to cause mass extinction events.
A "planet killer" asteroid that is hiding in the glare of the sun has finally been detected, and the giant space rock could smash into Earth one day.
The 0.9-mile-wide (1.5 kilometers) "potentially hazardous" asteroid, named 2022 AP7, is one of several large space rocks that astronomers recently discovered  near the orbits of Earth and Venus. 

Currently, 2022 AP7 crosses Earth's orbit while our planet is on the opposite side of the sun, but scientists say that over thousands of years, the asteroid and Earth will slowly start to cross the same point closer together, thereby increasing the odds of a catastrophic impact. The asteroid, discovered alongside two other near-Earth asteroids using the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile, was described in a study published Sept. 29 in The Astronomical Journal✨

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Why can we sometimes see the moon in the daytime?

✨We sometimes see the moon during the day for the same reason we see it at night — it is reflecting light from the sun — After the sun, the moon is by far the brightest celestial object we can see. But the moon isn't always visible during the day. This is due to Earth's atmosphere and the orbital cycle of our natural satellite.

If our planet didn't have an atmosphere, the moon would be visible from Earth all the time. Meanwhile, the phases of the moon mean that, when it moves between Earth and the sun — such as during the new moon — the illuminated side faces away from us and the dark side of the moon faces Earth, making it basically invisible to skywatchers on Earth✨
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What time is the Blood Moon total lunar eclipse on Nov. 8🌑👀?

✨Here's an awesome timeline for the Beaver Blood Moon lunar eclipse of Nov. 8. The last total lunar eclipse until 2025 will turn the moon blood-red on Tuesday, Nov. 8, but exactly when you should look up depends on where you are.

The eclipse, dubbed the Beaver Blood Moon lunar eclipse since it occurs during November's Full Beaver Moon, will be visible across North America, the Pacific, Australia and Asia. During the eclipse, the full moon will pass through Earth's shadow as it moves behind our planet with respect to the sun, giving it a spectacular bloody color in the process. You can watch the total lunar eclipse on Space.com for free, courtesy of several webcasts from observatories across the United States. Tuesday's "blood moon" eclipse will begin at 3:02 a.m. EST (0803 GMT) when the moon begins to enter the outermost region of Earth's shadow✨

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Black hole announces itself to astronomers by violently ripping apart a star

✨The black hole is located in a dwarf galaxy a million light-years away and ripped apart an unlucky star in a brutal tidal disruption event.
A hitherto undiscovered black hole announced its presence to astronomers when it ripped apart and devoured a star that wandered too close to it.
Astronomers have discovered an intermediate-mass black hole that shredded a nearby star. The black hole blasted out a flare of radiation so powerful that it briefly outshone every star in its dwarf galaxy home. This TDE could help scientists better understand the relationship between galaxies and black holes. It also provides astronomers with another intermediate black hole to study✨

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Earth is encircled by a bubble 1,000 light years away🌎

So, how did it originate?

✨In recent research, astronomers succeeded in reconstructing the evolutionary history of our galactic region and showing how a chain of events dating back some 14 million years led to the creation of an enormous bubble around the Solar System.

Turns out that this bubble was formed by the birth of new stars currently surrounding our galactic region✨

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The Sun probably possessed a system of rings🌕

✨Scientists from U.S. Rice University have conducted simulations while trying to reconstruct the major stages in the evolution of the Solar System. One of the discoveries was a confirmation of the possible existence of rings in the Sun at the stage of our luminary's formation.

The assumption the Sun owned rings similar to those of Saturn emerged after studying other young stars in the Universe. They are present there, and therefore it is highly likely they could have originally formed around the Sun as well🌺✨

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InSight survived a massive dust storm on Mars

✨InSight has been in safe mode since Jan. 7, 2022, due to a major dust storm that severely limited the amount of light available to the solar panels.

For all this time, the station conducted no scientific research, but only transmitted data on its status to Earth.

On January 19, engineers took the station out of safe mode, determining that the storm had subsided✨.

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Saturn has an extra huge ring, discovered only in 2009🪐

✨The ring originates 6 million kilometers from Saturn.

It is 12 million kilometers long, enough to fit 300 Saturns. Saturn's satellite Phoebe rotates inside the ring and some astronomers believe that it is the source of the ring's appearance✨

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Apollo 15 and Apollo 16 missions footage👨‍🚀

✨It shows people in spacesuits bouncing around the Moon, tripping and falling. The clumsiness of the astronauts is that even though they weigh less on the Moon, their mass remains the same.

And so inertia, which is the property of a body to resist changes in motion, related to mass rather than weight, also remains the same. Thus, astronauts moving on the moon do so under completely different conditions they are used to.

These drops have also been the object of scientific research. For example, one of the objectives of the Apollo 16 mission was to assess the differences between dexterity and movement on Earth and on the Moon to better understand both lunar gravity and how it affects movement on its surface✨

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On Earth, the flame spreads upwards, while in weightlessness it sweeps evenly in all directions.

✨The spherical shape of the flame is explained by the fact that in weightlessness there is no upward movement of air and no convection of its warm and cold layers, which on Earth "pulls" the flame into a drop shape✨.

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Korolev Crater footage

✨The Mars Express probe took images of the Korolev Crater, which is 82 kilometers across and located in the northern lowlands of Mars, just south of the large dune-filled area that surrounds part of the planet's northern polar cap (known as Olympia Undae).

It is a particularly well-preserved sample of a Martian crater; it is not filled with snow, but ice, with a year-round mound of water ice about 1.8 km thick at its center✨

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Is there sound in space?

✔️ Sound is a physical phenomenon generated by the oscillating motion of gas/solid/fluid particles. Most commonly, in everyday life, we hear sound through gas, i.e. air. 
 
If one means a spaceship, which is filled with air, then, certainly, we will hear everything perfectly, but in open space there are no air molecules, so you can enjoy the silence. 

Only not for long, since your eardrums in outer space are ruptured due to the difference in pressure inside and outside (you may feel something similar in an airplane)✨

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Did you know😱?

✨The spacesuit has a device designed to protect your ears from pressure drops?

These devices come in handy if your ears start to get stuffy. Astronauts can also use them to scratch their noses✨

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What occurs when a meteorite falls on the Moon?

Not as simple as you might think. The energy released from the impact melts its fragments, some of which cool down and may become small beads. 

Such "beads" were found in some quantities in the lunar soil samples brought back to Earth by the Apollo ships. 

The photo represents one of these beads enlarged to a realistic size of a quarter of a millimeter.

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The first Star Wars featured the now-cult planet Tatooine with two suns

✨At the time (1977), astronomers did not yet know if such solar systems actually existed. As a result, the first extrasolar planet was discovered only in the early 1990s. 

The first true extrasolar planet was found in 2005, and it was a Jupiter-sized planet orbiting a system of a Sun-like star and a brown dwarf✨

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