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A very hungry planet! 🪐

That little dot is WISPIT 2b, a newborn exoplanet. About 5 times the mass of Jupiter, the planet is eating its way through its dusty cradle as it orbits the host star, a younger version of our Sun 🌞

Taken with ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) in #Chile, this image is the first clear detection of a baby planet in a disc with multiple rings.

Read more: https://www.eso.org/public/images/potw2534a/

📷 ESO/R. F. van Capelleveen et al.

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A white protoplanetary disc at the centre of the picture takes up most of the frame. The elliptical cloud of dust and gas consists of several concentric rings and gaps. In one of the larger gaps there is a little dot: a planet.

A very hungry planet

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#science #Space #Chile #Astronomy #astrodon #astrophysics

As the Milky Way band appears to pour into our Extremely Large Telescope in #Chile, the cranes around it seem to do the same while they further advance the telescope.

Once complete, the ELT will be breaking down the light above in unparalleled detail with its huge 39 m mirror.

More: https://www.eso.org/public/images/potw2533a/

📷 C. Letelier/ESO

#astrodon #astronomy #astrophysics #astrophotography #space #science

The image shows the open metallic dome of the Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) at the centre of the picture taking up the lower half of the frame. At the top, like a river the Milky Way band horizontally pours into the ELT. The construction site of the ELT is surrounded by cranes, while the Milky Way lights up the sky in various colours. One patch of the Milky Way shines the brightest, the centre of the galaxy.

Milky Way spectator

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#science #Space #Chile #Astronomy #astrodon #astrophotography #astrophysics

Sailing beneath a sea of stars!

Feast your eyes on this stunning image of our Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) underneath a gorgeous starry night sky in #Chile. It almost looks like a ship cresting a great, shadowy wave. ⛵️🌊

Read more: https://www.eso.org/public/images/potw2530a/

📷 P. Romaniuk/ESO

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The bottom fourth of the image is taken up by the black shadow of Chile’s Atacama Desert, appearing as a wave with a peak near the left-hand side. Almost at the very peak of the shadow is a grey dome appearing as a white light. Above, is a vast sea of white specks, stars amongst a gradient of orange, blue and bright pinks and purples. The branching Milky Way extends from the centre of the image to the top right.

Sailing beneath a sea of stars

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💥💥 Double detonation!

For the first time, astronomers have obtained visual evidence that a star met its end by blasting twice.

This was done by studying the centuries-old remains of supernova SNR 0509-67.5 with our Very Large Telescope. Led by the Univ. of South Wales, this shows some of the most important explosions in the Universe in a new light.

What happened exactly? Keep reading.

#astrodon #astronomy #astrophysics #space #science

📷 ESO/P. Das et al. Backgr. stars (HST): K. Noll et al.

A cosmic bubble against a starry background. The outer layer of the bubble is orange, and it surrounds an inner blue layer.
#science #Space #Astronomy #astrodon #astrophysics

Grateful that it's only #raining water in my neighborhood today 😂

📷 /more on "rain" on other planets: https://www.zmescience.com/feature-post/space-astronomy/exoplanets/rain-titan-earth-neptune/

#space #science #weather #astronomy #astroDon #rain #storms #Earth

A vertical infographic titled “Rains on Different Worlds” showing types of rain. From left to right, the planets or moons and their corresponding rainfall are: Earth: Water rain, depicted with crashing ocean waves. Venus: Sulfuric acid rain, shown with thick orange clouds. HD 189733b: Glass rain, illustrated by red-hot storms and molten glass shards. Neptune: Diamond rain, with a dark, icy surface and distant planet in view. OGLE-TR-56b: Iron rain, represented with glowing molten iron streaming downward.

How it rains on different planets: what the science says

It rains water on Earth, but on Titan, it rains with methane. Find out how it rains on other planets.
Mihai Andrei (ZME Science)
#science #Space #rain #Astronomy #earth #astrodon #weather #raining #storms

A view from an airplane window during twilight, showing the wing silhouetted against the sky. A comet –a white elongated smudge– hovers above the horizon, surrounded by scattered stars. Below, faint city lights dot the dark landscape.
#science #Space #Chile #Astronomy #astrodon #astrophotography #comet

The skies of Chile’s Atacama Desert, renowned as the darkest and clearest of the world, are now at risk from an industrial megaproject.

Electricity company AES Andes proposed to locate a large-scale industrial complex just a few kilometres away from our Paranal Observatory. If constructed, the resulting dust emissions, increased atmospheric turbulence, and especially light #pollution, would irreparably impact the capabilities for astronomical observation.

We urge the involved parties, specifically AES Andes, to work with the Government of #Chile to relocate this megaproject to a zone compatible with industrial development without jeopardising the skies of Paranal.

Read more: https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso2501/?lang

📷 ESO/P. Horálek

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A view of the Milky Way arching across the night sky above the Atacama Desert in Chile. The foreground features the buildings of ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), with a person standing on a raised platform. A sign saying "skies at risk" is overlaid on the image.

World's darkest and clearest skies at risk from industrial megaproject

On December 24th, AES Andes, a subsidiary of the US power company AES Corporation, submitted a project for a massive industrial complex for environmental impact assessment.
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#environment #science #Chile #pollution #Astronomy #astrodon

I took a picture of #jupiter this morning and I think it's my best one yet! The conditions were the best I've ever seen in my backyard in #purmerend, the Netherlands. Gear: Skywatcher Skymax 180 and ZWO asi 224MC-s. #astrodon #astrophotography
Colour image of Jupiter, a beige sphere with horizontal brown bands. The bottom band is interrupted by the great red spot, a centuries-old storm that looks like a little oval. The beige band in the middle has blueish gray waves.
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Draw a one centimetre square on your finger & hold it towards the Sun 👆

Now consider that some 60 billion neutrinos hit it every second, created by nuclear fusion in the solar core 500 seconds ago 🙀

Even if it’s nighttime & your finger has to point down through Earth’s surface – they don’t care 🙃

But if it makes you feel better, there are only about 2 solar neutrinos in each cubic centimetre of you at any given instant 🤷‍♂️

Well, plus another 300 from the Big Bang 😬

#Astrodon #BigNumberology
The tip of my left index finger with a one square centimetre box drawn on it in black biro.
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