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Reposted from @nasahubble Can you spot six of Uranus’s moons in this picture? Look closely 🔍 This #HubbleClassic image from 2004 shows a few of Uranus’ 13 faint rings and a handful of its moons. Brightest on the lower side in this image, the planet’s outermost ring is made of dust and small pebbles. The brightest moon visible in this image is Ariel (lower right), which might have the youngest surface among all the moons of Uranus. The other five moons can be seen just outside the rings. All but one of them is named for a character in William Shakespeare's work: Desdemona, Portia, Cressida, and Puck. The last one, Belinda, was named for an Alexander Pope character. Image description: Uranus is seen with faint rings along the top and bottom of the planet, against a black backdrop of space. The planet's surface has bands of color ranging from bright blue and green near the left, to pinker shades on the right. Five pale dots of light are seen around the rings, along with one near the image's lower right, that are some of the planet's moons. Image credit: NASA and Erich Karkoschka, University of Arizona #NASA #Hubble #Uranus #planet #space #science #astronomy #telescope #universe#eugenelacroix1 @eugenelacroix1 #photography https://www.instagram.com/p/Co7HrKboDuo/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

It’s da moon 🌙 📸@the.z.axis . . . . #nebulosa #ngc #galaxia #galaxy #galaxies #galaxi #nebula #hubbletelescope #hubblespacetelescope #hubbleclassic #hubblehangout #nasa #astrophotography #astrophotos #astrography_ #astronomia #astronomie #spacetoday #nightsky #deepsky #deepskyobject #spacecraft #espacio #vialactea #astronomy #universo #astrofisica #hubble #astrofotografia #spacelovers (at North Bend, Oregon) https://www.instagram.com/p/CKct7aYFnDW/?igshid=1srsfh20by3z1

This #HubbleClassic was released in 2004: At first glance, Jupiter looks like it has a mild case of the measles. Five spots - one colored white, one blue, and three black - are scattered across the upper half of the planet. Closer inspection by Hubble reveals that these spots are actually a rare alignment of three of Jupiter's largest moons - Io, Ganymede, and Callisto - across the planet's face. The telltale signatures of this alignment are the shadows [the three black circles] cast by the moons.  On Earth, we witness a solar eclipse when our Moon's shadow sweeps across our planet's face as it passes in front of our Sun. Jupiter, however, has four moons roughly the same size as Earth's Moon. The shadows of three of them occasionally sweep simultaneously across Jupiter. Seeing three shadows on Jupiter happens only about once or twice a decade. Why is this triple eclipse so unique? Io, Ganymede, and Callisto orbit Jupiter at different rates. Their shadows likewise cross Jupiter's face at different rates. For example, the outermost moon Callisto orbits the slowest of the three satellites. Callisto's shadow moves across the planet once for every 20 shadow crossings of Io. Add the crossing rate of Ganymede's shadow and the possibility of a triple eclipse becomes even more rare. Viewing the triple shadows in 2004 was even more special, because two of the moons were crossing Jupiter's face at the same time as the three shadows. For more information: http://hubblesite.org/news_release/news/2004-30 Credit: NASA, ESA, and E. Karkoschka (University of Arizona) . . . #jupiter #hubbledeepfield #hubble #hubbletelescope #moon #satellite #space #solarsystem #planet #moons #sciencehook #spacelover #scienceiscool #scienceisawesome #nasabeyond #nasa🚀 #nasa #esa #europeanspaceagency #telescope https://www.instagram.com/p/B2eR0GjDAzN/?igshid=11rz70sjbk9q5

#Repost @nasahubble with @repostsaveapp ・・・ #HubbleClassic The mighty gravitational field of a massive cluster of galaxies known as Abell 2218 bends time and space, warping the light from galaxies behind the cluster. Curved arcs of light are the distorted apparitions of background galaxies billions of light-years away. For more information on Hubble, follow the link in our bio. Credits: NASA, Andrew Fruchter and the ERO Team [Sylvia Baggett (STScI), Richard Hook (ST-ECF), Zoltan Levay (STScI)] (STScI) #NASA #Hubble #space #science #astronomy #universe #telescope #cosmos #gravity #cluster #lensing #galaxy #lightyears https://www.instagram.com/p/BvecsWZAGyn/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1d0bcbcipgryz

#Repost @nasahubble (@get_repost) ・・・ #HubbleClassic In 1998, Hubble captured this colorful view of Saturn in infrared light, providing information about clouds and hazes in the planet's atmosphere. The blue colors indicate a clear atmosphere down to the main cloud layer. Most of the northern hemisphere that is visible above the rings is relatively clear. The dark region around the south pole indicates a big hole in the main cloud layer. The green and yellow colors indicate a haze above the main cloud layer. The red and orange colors indicate clouds reaching up high into the atmosphere. The rings, made up of chunks of ice, are as white as images taken in visible light. Two of Saturn's moons were captured: Dione in the lower left and Tethys in the upper right. Tethys is just ending its transit across the disk of Saturn. Credit: Erich Karkoschka (University of Arizona), and NASA #NASA #Hubble #space #science #astronomy #universe #telescope #cosmos #saturn #color #planet #atmosphere #moons #clouds https://www.instagram.com/p/BvPFjecA2kc/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=rfmqcy8yg2n4