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Think we're the only planet with life?
Supernovas like Supernova 1987A, seen at center, not only enrich their surroundings with many elements, but also trigger the formation of new stars. This image was captured by Hubble for the supernova’s 30th anniversary: https://bit.ly/4fD6Y9l
Last Legacy Hubble Birthday Pictures!
Felix Iskandar Escellun: July 13th (taken July 13th, 2019)
Anisa Anka: January 27th (taken January 27th, 2019)
Sage Lesath: August 15th (taken August 15th, 2019)
Rime Solano Varela: May 23rd (taken May 23rd, 2013)
Tulsi Ain: May 4th (taken May 4th, 2019)
Elowen de Bhaldraithe: July 24th (taken July 24, 1996)
Lucan de Bhaldraithe: April 26th (taken April 26th, 2008)
Saaros: October 1st (taken October 1st, 2001)
Scylla Escella Anguis: November 13th (taken November 13th, 1996)
Stella: December 15th (taken December 15th, 2005)
(I would gladly put more but not all of them have birthdays and that's a horrible shame) (and also the image limit but still)
The Arcana Hubble Birthday Pictures!
A sequel to this post
Asra Alnazar: June 13th (taken June 13th, 2005)
Nadia Satrinava: July 8th (taken July 8th, 2008)
Julian Devorak: March 12th (taken March 12th, 2005)
Muriel of the Kokhuri: September 10th (taken September 10th, 2018)
Portia Devorak: February 7th (taken February 7th, 1999)
Lucio Morgasson: January 13th (taken January 13th, 2011)
Fresh news from Hubble, and it's a real doozy this time: it found a runaway supermassive black hole.
Let me repeat that:
A runaway SUPERMASSIVE BLACK HOLE.
Half the universe away, an immense object born of concentrated primordial chaos, so powerful it once bound an entire galaxy together, hurtles through the intergalactic void. Its flight through the cosmos so unfathomably violent that it leaves a stream of newborn stars two hundred thousand lightyears long whirling in its wake. Gas and dust in the space between galaxies is spread so thin a particle might never touch another for a million years, and yet this escaped galactic core has dragged the matter in its path into fusion.
What a universe we live in!
your bio promises space facts. i request a space fact 👀
Shout out to anon for calling me out on the fact that I have not been posting enough space facts, I must remedy that.
Sometime in the near future(I'm talking next few months near) in febuary of this year the hubble telescope took a picture of the IC 3476 dwarf galaxy undergoing a process called ram pressure stripping which compresses the star firing gasses which can often lead to the hindrance of star formation. However, in IC 3476 this process actually boosts star formation deep in the galaxy since most of the ram pressure stripping is towards the outer edge of the galaxy.
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