Clouds are vital to life – but many are becoming wispy ghosts. Here’s how to see the changes above us
#ClimateChange #Clouds #Atmosphere #GlobalWarming #ClimateScience #Environment #EarthSystems #Weather #Sky #Planet #GeoEngineering #EcologicalGrief
https://the-14.com/clouds-are-vital-to-life-but-many-are-becoming-wispy-ghosts-heres-how-to-see-the-changes-above-us/

HAPPY NEW YEAR! Tomorrow is JANUARY 2026! Nights slowly getting shorter but still plenty of darkness! Start planning now and let’s hope for clear skies!!! Look up! ❄️☃️

Reminders:
* Event dates shown are often "peak" times, remember to check before and after times to allow for optimal sky conditions.
* Time shown is in Eastern, adjust for your timezone.
* Other sightings may be visible in your area.

#astronomy #astronomyforall #astronomyforbeginners #moon #planet #lisaslookuponfacebook

Planet bets on orbital data centers in partnership with Google

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://spacenews.com/planet-bets-on-orbital-data-centers-in-partnership-with-google/

’Stop and re-check everything’: Scientists discover 26 new bacterial species in NASA’s cleanrooms

Scientists discover 26 new bacterial species in NASA cleanrooms, revealing surprisingly resilient microbes with potential uses in biotechnology and ...

https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/microbiology/stop-and-re-check-everything-scientists-discover-26-new-bacterial-species-in-nasas-cleanrooms#microbiology #planet-earth

#jeans #planet #recycling #donate

APOD from 2010-07-03

A Giant #Planet for Beta Pic

Young star Beta Pictoris, 50 light-years away, has a debris disk hinting at planet formation. ESO telescopes confirmed a giant planet, Beta Pictoris b, in its system. The star's youth suggests rapid planet formation; the planet's orbit is similar to Saturn's in our solar system.

HD image at https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap100703.html

Neptune – dynamic storms and hurricanes

An ice giant at the edge of the solar system. It's big. And Uranus follows it. Another icy planet. Two ice monsters at the edge of the universe. So far from the sun. Neptune is named after the god of the oceans. And there are storms raging in the atmosphere. Dynamic weather.

#space #cosmic #solarsystem #neptune #icegiant #hurricane #wind #storm #ocean #waves #atmosphere #planet #universe #planetofuniverse #faraway #coldspace #deepspace

Vor etwa 50 Jahren ist die NASA-Raumsonde Voyager 2 an den Planeten Uranus und Neptun, vorbeigeflogen und hat dabei viele Daten über die Eisriesen gesammelt. Neue Forschungsergebnisse gehen jetzt davon aus, dass die beiden Planeten vielleicht einen Gesteinskern besitzen.

➡️ https://www.riffreporter.de/de/wissen/uranus-neptun-gesteinsriesen-planetenforschung-sonnensystem

#astrodon #space #weltraum #planet #news @riffreporter

Astronomers have detected the strongest evidence yet of an #atmosphere around a rocky #planet beyond our solar system.

Rhe planet TOI-561 b is a rocky world that's about twice Earth's mass but bears little resemblance to our home planet due to its proximity to its host #star.

Although the star is slightly less massive and cooler than our sun, the planet orbits at one fortieth the distance of #Mercury in our own solar system.

On TOI-561 b, a year lasts just 10.56 hours, and one side of the planet is in perpetual daylight.

A planet like this is too small and hot to retain its own atmosphere for long after formation. But observations suggest that it is surrounded by a relatively thick blanket of gas, upending conventional wisdom about ultra-short-period planets.

There is an equilibrium between the #magma ocean and the atmosphere. At the same time that gases are coming out of the planet to feed the atmosphere, the magma ocean is sucking them back into the interior

https://phys.org/news/2025-12-ultra-hot-lava-world-thick.html

Paper by Teske et al. (2025):
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ae0a4c

This #planet immature of. Here is Saturn. #unistellar #odysseypro #space #astronomy #amateur

Thirsty Surface Tension, Landes, France. July 2008. Ref-1180
https://www.denisolivier.com/photography/thirsty-surface-tension-landes-france/en/1180
#planet #field #water #denisolivier #ground #environment #culture #thirst #landes #protect #preserve #industry #drinking #denisolivierphoto #save

A watery, greenish and rocky alien planet with Saturn-like rings. It has moons, a neutron star, and a black hole in the background.

#alienplanet #blackhole #NeutronStar #moon #AIcontent #aigenerated #AIart #Art #saturn #gemini #video #shortvideo #AI #veo #planet

Here is this evening’s observation of the #planet #Saturn. #unistellar #odysseypro #space #astronomy #amateur

#OnThisDay in #1612 #Galileo Galilei became the first person to observe the #planet #Neptune, although he mistakenly catalogued it as a fixed star.

🪐 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neptune

Long lost #Moon-forming #planet traced to the inner Solar System
By examining isotopes of iron, chromium, zirconium and molybdenum, the team modelled hundreds of possible scenarios for the early #Earth and #Theia, testing which combinations could produce the isotope signatures seen today. Comparing these patterns, researchers concluded that Theia most likely originated in the inner Solar System, even closer to the Sun than the early Earth.
https://www.euronews.com/next/2025/11/23/long-lost-moon-forming-planet-formed-in-the-inner-solar-system-new-analysis-shows

APOD from 2025-12-27

Apollo 17's Moonship

Digitally enhanced photo shows Apollo 17's #lunar module Challenger in orbit, featuring thrusters, engine bell, hatch, and radar antenna. Gene Cernan is visible through the window. The ascent stage crashed on the #Moon after safely returning astronauts to #Earth in 1972.

HD image at https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap251227.html#space #astronomy #planet

Nachthimmel

#stars #planet #Jupiter #beteigeuze #orion #cantsleep

APOD from 2025-12-26

3I/ATLAS Flyby

Interstellar #comet 3I/ATLAS passed #Earth at 1.8 AU on Dec 19. Captured in Leo on Dec 15, its colors—yellow dust tail, blue ion tail, green coma—are enhanced in the image. Exiting the Solar System, it speeds away at 64 km/s on a hyperbolic path.

HD image at https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap251226.html#space #astronomy #planet

Astronomers have imaged the largest protoplanetary #disk ever observed around a young #star.

For the first time in visible light, images obtained with #Hubble have revealed the disk is unexpectedly chaotic and turbulent, with wisps of material stretching much farther above and below the disk than seen in any similar system.

#Planet nurseries can be much more active and chaotic than expected.

We’re seeing this disk nearly edge-on and its wispy upper layers and asymmetric features are especially striking. Images from both Hubble and #JWST have revealed similar structures in other disks, but IRAS 23077+6707 provides us with an exceptional perspective — allowing us to trace its substructures in visible light at an unprecedented level of detail.

This makes the system a unique, new laboratory for studying planet formation and the environments where it happens.

#astronomy
https://science.nasa.gov/missions/hubble/nasas-hubble-reveals-largest-found-chaotic-birthplace-of-planets/