Frontispiece. Saturn & a total eclipse. The solar system. 1852.
A rogue planet (also termed a free-floating (FFP), interstellar, nomad, orphan, sunless, starless, unbound or wandering planet) is an interstellar object of planetary-mass, therefore smaller than fusors (stars and brown dwarfs) and without a host planetary system. Such objects have been ejected from the planetary system in which they formed or have never been gravitationally bound to any star or brown dwarf. The Milky Way alone may have billions to trillions of rogue planets, a range the upcoming Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will likely be able to narrow down.
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image Credit: ESO/L. Calçada/P. Delorme/R. Saito/VVV Consortium
it’s always a good day to get drunk and cry about the voyager records
Orbital path of asteroid near miss in 2002. Yah, that’s how close we came to nuclear winter and possible total destruction.
nasa space tourism posters <333333333
Squidolus [Day:1325 Hour:12]
NGC 602: Stars vs Pillars © JWST/Hubble
new photos of jupiter from the juno spacecraft | (good to know that van gogh had a say in how jupiter was designed)
andrei, he/him, 21, made this at 14 when i was a space nerd but i never fully grew out of that phase so,,,,..,hubble telescope + alien life + exoplanet + sci fi nerd
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