Saturn In Near-infrared (Webb)/visible, Ultraviolet (Hubble)

A Pair of Staggering Infographics Organizes 1,600 Planets Beyond Our Solar System by Color

it’s always a good day to get drunk and cry about the voyager records

Vintage NASA press pic of Saturn’s northern hemisphere, observed by the Voyager 2 probe from 4.4 million miles away, August 19, 1981.

Astronaut tweets

It is so cool to see such photos by beginners made with iPhone and eyepiece: “I know this may not be as good as many other photos but I tried my best with my beginners luck. Equipment : -Skywatcher 8 inch dob (manual) -iphone 7 (held manually) -10 mm eyepiece (super Plossl) Processing : Just photoshopped by -increasing contrast - fixing exposure - balancing whites and blacks Conditions: -very crappy skies (not good transparency) -light pollution: bortle 8-9 (inner city) - Jupiter not at opposition http://ift.tt/2FhOOrZ

Departure

I’m so fucking emotional about the 7 planets of Trappist 1. 

Imagine living so close to another habitable planet that it’s like a moon in the night sky. Imagine that for six other planets. Imagine hypothetical aliens in their equivalent of the renneisance, mapping orbits and studying the sky, starting to notice each other through their telescopes. God that’s so cool. Imagine knowing something is there so soon and slowly working towards getting to know them. 

Heck, even just being able to see your neighbour planets that close, even without life, makes the solar system so obviously devastatingly lonely by comparison.

The qrcodes do take to each planets' nasa site. I learned a lot of each planet while doing this work.

My favorite is Saturn! Which ones yer favorite?

The horizons of Venus, Earth, Moon, Mars, and Titan.

Source: http://i.imgur.com/A1gIYXdl.jpg

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