Just reblogs of cool and cute, space and nature themed stuff
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đ§Ą đđđđđđâš // for day 3 of folktale week 2023: sea! // gouache on paper
a little study of scales, texture, and light for a larger project I'm working on! also made this one into wrapping paper because I CAN'T be the only one who wants to wrap fish presents for people????
Roaming
Going to be turning this into a series of paintings and then prints!
this is one of my favorite memes thank u<3
NASAâs beloved space telescopes:Â HUBBLE, TESS, WEBB, KEPLER & SPITZERÂ l Exoplanet Travel Bureau
What would the future look like if people were regularly visiting to other planets and moons? These travel posters give a glimpse into that imaginative future. Take a look and choose your destination:
Our Voyager mission took advantage of a once-every-175-year alignment of the outer planets for a grand tour of the solar system. The twin spacecraft revealed details about Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune â using each planetâs gravity to send them on to the next destination.
Our Mars Exploration Program seeks to understand whether Mars was, is, or can be a habitable world. This poster imagines a future day when we have achieved our vision of human exploration of the Red Planet and takes a nostalgic look back at the great imagined milestones of Mars exploration that will someday be celebrated as âhistoric sites.â
Thereâs no place like home. Warm, wet and with an atmosphere thatâs just right, Earth is the only place we know of with life â and lots of it. Our Earth science missions monitor our home planet and how itâs changing so it can continue to provide a safe haven as we reach deeper into the cosmos.
The rare science opportunity of planetary transits has long inspired bold voyages to exotic vantage points â journeys such as James Cookâs trek to the South Pacific to watch Venus and Mercury cross the face of the sun in 1769. Spacecraft now allow us the luxury to study these cosmic crossings at times of our choosing from unique locales across our solar system.
Ceres is the closest dwarf planet to the sun. It is the largest object in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, with an equatorial diameter of about 965 kilometers. After being studied with telescopes for more than two centuries, Ceres became the first dwarf planet to be explored by a spacecraft, when our Dawn probe arrived in orbit in March 2015. Dawnâs ongoing detailed observations are revealing intriguing insights into the nature of this mysterious world of ice and rock.
The Jovian cloudscape boasts the most spectacular light show in the solar system, with northern and southern lights to dazzle even the most jaded space traveler. Jupiterâs auroras are hundreds of times more powerful than Earthâs, and they form a glowing ring around each pole thatâs bigger than our home planet.Â
The discovery of Enceladusâ icy jets and their role in creating Saturnâs E-ring is one of the top findings of the Cassini mission to Saturn. Further Cassini discoveries revealed strong evidence of a global ocean and the first signs of potential hydrothermal activity beyond Earth â making this tiny Saturnian moon one of the leading locations in the search for possible life beyond Earth.
Frigid and alien, yet similar to our own planet billions of years ago, Saturnâs largest moon, Titan has a thick atmosphere, organic-rich chemistry and surface shaped by rivers and lakes of liquid ethane and methane. Our Cassini orbiter was designed to peer through Titanâs perpetual haze and unravel the mysteries of this planet-like moon.
Astonishing geology and the potential to host the conditions for simple life making Jupiterâs moon Europa a fascinating destination for future exploration. Beneath its icy surface, Europa is believed to conceal a global ocean of salty liquid water twice the volume of Earthâs oceans. Tugging and flexing from Jupiterâs gravity generates enough heat to keep the ocean from freezing.
You can download free poster size images of these thumbnails here: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/visions-of-the-future/
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I canât remember what inspired me to do this because I spent roughly 30mins a day for a week on it, so by the time I finished I forgot how it started. One thing I do know is that it is super duper cute :3
last of the animal terrarium series~ I had to take a long break due to being super sick for a while but Iâm so glad have to finished the 6 part series~ Thank you all who suggested which animals I should draw :D
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Life cycle of our Sun, from beginning to end~