The #HubbleTelescope Captured These Auroras On #jupiter Caused By Light Waves Interacting With The Planet’s

Time for another out of this world comic for starry cosmos month!

This week’s entry, “Gamma Ray Bursts”

http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/science/objects/bursts1.html

http://earthsky.org/space/gamma-ray-bursts-are-the-most-powerful-explosions-in-the-universe

In this 2 part series, Planet X will teach you about the formation of donut planets using the power of physics! 

http://io9.gizmodo.com/what-would-the-earth-be-like-if-it-was-the-shape-of-a-d-1515700296

Enchanted Moon II by Nima Shayesteh

Wolf Moon by miguel aviles - Art of Visuals Collective

Moon on the horizon, Santa Barbara | California (by A. Klioutchnikov)

And unfortunately I can’t find credit for the final photo.

50 Facts About Earth

Uranus taken by Voyager 2 on January 11 1986. 

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Kevin M. Gill

NGC 6514, Trifid’s Unicorn

Venezuela by Jonas Piontek

shit man this got me emotional

Candy Cane of Cosmic Proportions

Imagine how long it would take to eat a candy cane that’s a thousand trillion miles tall! 😋

Scientists peering into the center of our Milky Way galaxy found this 190-light-year tall “candy cane,” but (sadly) it is not a peppermint treat. It does contain other goodies, though. They have found huge collections of material, called giant molecular clouds, where stars are being born. And there are magnetic fields that might be evidence of a bubble from an outburst in our galactic center long ago.

The full image shows our galaxy’s center in infrared (blue), radio (red) and microwave (“minty” green) light. The picture essentially color codes different ways light is produced. The blue and cyan regions show us cool dust where star formation has just begun. Yellow features show more-established star “factories.” Red reveals places where electrically charged gas interacts with magnetic fields.

This image includes newly published observations using an instrument designed and built at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, called the Goddard-IRAM Superconducting 2-Millimeter Observer (GISMO). It was used with a 30-meter radio telescope located on Pico Veleta, Spain, operated by the Institute for Radio Astronomy in the Millimeter Range headquartered in Grenoble, France. The image shows a region about 750 light-years wide.

Find out more about this image and what we can learn from studying star factories!

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The Einstein Cross Gravitational Lens : Most galaxies have a single nucleus – does this galaxy have four? The strange answer leads astronomers to conclude that the nucleus of the surrounding galaxy is not even visible in this image. The central cloverleaf is rather light emitted from a background quasar. The gravitational field of the visible foreground galaxy breaks light from this distant quasar into four distinct images. The quasar must be properly aligned behind the center of a massive galaxy for a mirage like this to be evident. The general effect is known as gravitational lensing, and this specific case is known as the Einstein Cross. Stranger still, the images of the Einstein Cross vary in relative brightness, enhanced occasionally by the additional gravitational microlensing effect of specific stars in the foreground galaxy. via NASA