Exo-Space

20/05/2025

CERN expands its collaboration on the Einstein Telescope 🔭

CERN and the Einstein Telescope collaboration have signed a new collaboration agreement in the field of engineering and safety to advance Europe’s next-generation gravitational-wave observatory.

Find out more: https://home.cern/news/news/knowledge-sharing/cern-expands-its-collaboration-einstein-telescope

09/04/2025

02/12/2024

NGC 300: A Galaxy of Stars (APOD: 2024 Dec 02)
Image Credit & Copyright: Daniel Stern
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap241202.html

Explanation: This galaxy is unusual for how many stars it seems that you can see. Stars are so abundantly evident in this deep exposure of the spiral galaxy NGC 300 because so many of these stars are bright blue and grouped into resolvable bright star clusters. Additionally, NGC 300 is so clear because it is one of the closest spiral galaxies to Earth, as light takes only about 6 million years to get here. Of course, galaxies are composed of many more faint stars than bright, and even more of a galaxy's mass is attributed to unseen dark matter. NGC 300 spans nearly the same amount of sky as the full moon and is visible with a small telescope toward the southern constellation of the Sculptor. The featured image was captured in October from Rio Hurtado, Chile and is a composite of over 20 hours of exposure.

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Starship Asterisk* • APOD Discussion Page
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21/11/2024

: Io, Close Up

Jupiter's innermost moon, Io, was captured by the instrument onboard NASA's Juno spacecraft during Perijove 57 on 30 December 2023. The image is processed in approximate true color as the human eye would see it. Note the amazing details in Io's volcanoes!

Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / SwRI / MSSS / Simeon Schmauß

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16/11/2024

Wow! 💫

04/10/2024

18/09/2024

24/08/2024

: Saturn's Polar Vortex

The 2000-km-wide vortex of swirling clouds circling Saturn's north pole! This image was captured in polarized light by NASA's Cassini spacecraft and has been adjusted to approximate the visible-light coloration of the area at the time.

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSI/CICLOPS/J. Major

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24/08/2024

Astronaut Space Endurance 💫

After extensive review by experts across the agency, NASA's Boeing Crew Flight Test will return with an uncrewed Starliner.

Astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams are scheduled to return to Earth next spring aboard NASA's SpaceX Crew-9 mission: https://go.nasa.gov/3WY8Tww

21/08/2024

Jupiter has the harshest radiation environment in our solar system.

To better understand how that environment works, scientists on the developed the first complete 3D radiation map of the Jupiter system. go.nasa.gov/4cwE9IL