seeing the photos from Webb up against photos from Hubble just makes me… I don’t even know like, wow! Look at that!
This picture was taken by a NASA spacecraft a million miles away from Earth. That’s the side of the moon we never get to see.
The Sun above Earth's horizon l NASA l 2022
Releasing a space gate, “Exodus” and “The Pegasus Project”
Odyssey at a Pegasus black hole “The Pegasus Project”
Mankind’s first look at conditions on a “super-Earth” 50 light years away is expected in coming weeks via the James Webb Space Telescope, and NASA is bracing to see the stuff of nightmares.
The planet, called 55 Cancri e, orbits so close to “its Sun-like star” that surface conditions could literally be like the Hell of biblical description: a dimension in a constant state of burning.
Data show 55 Cancri e is less than 1.5 million miles from its star—1/25 the distance super hot Mercury is from our sun, NASA says.
“With surface temperatures far above the melting point of typical rock-forming minerals, the day side of the planet is thought to be covered in oceans of lava,” NASA reported last week.
“Imagine if Earth were much, much closer to the Sun. So close that an entire year lasts only a few hours. So close that gravity has locked one hemisphere in permanent searing daylight and the other in endless darkness. So close that the oceans boil away, rocks begin to melt, and the clouds rain lava.”
The Lively Center of the Lagoon Nebula
Image Credit: NASA, ESA, Hubble; Processing & Copyright: Mehmet Hakan Özsaraç
Bok Globules in IC 2944
Credit: Johannes Schedler
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