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Our Five-Trillion-Mile Close Call: the Star(s) That Skimmed the Solar System

It’s like something out of a Hollywood film or a science fiction novel: a dark star sneaks up on Earth from just outside the Solar System, discovered too late to do anything about it (and really, what could we do?) and plows through the cloud of comets that surrounds the Sun like a haze of icy gnats, sending them flying…

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Spooky night view of the surface of .#asteroid Ryugu taken w/RGB LED illumination by the German-French MASCOT probe during its descent on Oct. 3, 2018 after separation from JAXA’s Hayabusa2. I upscaled this 2x and removed some of the color fringing in the shadows that resulted from RGB compositing. (ht @setiinstitute)
The clouds and fog got in the way last night but I did manage to get some shots of the first half of the May 15 #superflowerbloodmoon #eclipse! ☁️☁️🌕☁️☁️
Tonight's #SuperFlowerBloodMoon just before totality
Here's a view of the famous Horsehead Nebula located 1,375 light-years away in the constellation Orion. This is a color-composite made from images acquired with @nasahubble in infrared light in 2012. In optical light it appears as a dark horse head shaped silhouette against a brighter background.
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