Just finished this project depicting the James Webb Space Telescope. Design based off of a NASA coloring page :)
I’m intending to give as a gift it to my sister who was just accepted into the Space Force.
The Ring Nebula (M57), located about 2,500 light-years away in the constellation Lyra, is the remains of a dying Sun-like star. Captured by the James Webb Space Telescope, this image reveals incredibly detailed layers of gas, dust, and filament structures surrounding the central white dwarf.
https://science.nasa.gov/asset/webb/ring-nebula-nircam-image/
NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI
Captured together with NIRCam target NGC 4569
"a white cluster of stars at the top left quarter, many remote orange galaxies in the background"
Yuval Harpaz
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Filters F115W, F150W, F277W
A galaxy with mostly white stars. Bright center, a spiral arm at the bottom with dust making stars redder. Hints of another spiral arm on the upper right, due to concentration of stars.
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Okay so I was looking at the Artemis II photos and it just hit me — we went 53 years without a single human going beyond low Earth orbit. Like my parents were kids the last time this happened. That's genuinely wild to process. And these new photos are stunning, but also kind of unsettling? Seeing Earth as this tiny marble from lunar distance in 2026 feels both inspiring and weirdly humbling. We spent half a century just... not doing this. Makes me wonder what else we've been sitting on that we just haven't gotten around to. What's your honest reaction seeing these images for the first time?
James Webb Deep Field with lots of detail extracted from the original image.
The deep field photograph, which covers a tiny area of sky visible from the Southern Hemisphere, is centered on SMACS 0723, a galaxy cluster in the constellation of Volans. Thousands of galaxies are visible in the image, some as old as 13 billion years.
Every time I read about Neptune, I'm reminded of how truly terrifying and fascinating it is. It has 2,100 km/h permanent winds on a frozen world with barely any solar heat, a captured moon (Triton) that it's slowly pulling in to destroy into rings, and a magnetic field that literally rotates independently from the planet itself.
Voyager 2 only spent 6 hours there in 1989. With missions like Trident getting rejected or pushed back, the absolute earliest we might return is around 2045.
Why do you think ice giants get so little love compared to Jupiter, Saturn, or Mars? Is it purely the brutal 12-year travel time, or is the scientific justification harder to pitch to NASA compared to looking for life on Europa/Enceladus?
(For reference, this video covers a lot of the specific anomalies that made Voyager 2's data so unsettling at the time:https://youtu.be/ube7fjzEwaE)
A bright blue star in the middle and a less bright blue star on the lower left. A circular brown nebula around the central star, with a distinct ring.
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A collection of stars, elongated from left to right. Some bright stars and a lot of background galaxies that are smaller in apparent size, but much larger in real size compared to the dwarf galaxy.
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Lonely, I drifted through the dark galaxy I was just an insignificant spiral galaxy. Unaware of what I was capable of. Until 400 million years ago a smaller galaxy decided it wanted to unite with me. It rushed through me but it didn't stayed with me.
I was all alone again, a floral film in space.
Out of the small spiral a beautiful flower shape emerged all that stardust formed petals. For 440 million years now I have been expanding my spiral. So that i became the only spiral galaxy that pieced together all the shattered stars – a gigantic flower, all alone.
Over time, the stars left me, they had to move on. I will have to let all the stars fall apart, just to be this lonely simple spiral galaxy once again. I was not destined to be viewed by everyone in my most beautiful form...
After all this has happened, would I ever be a flower again?