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Descending Titan

Froam Astronomy Picture of the Day for 19/1/25.

This is an animation constructed from photos taken during the descent of the European Space Agency’s Huygens probe through Titan’s atmosphere in 2005.

 

A Double Moon Eclipse

By which I mean one moon eclipses another.

Neither is Earth’s Moon of course.

Via Astronomy Picture of  the Day for 26/2/24 this is Mars’s moon Phobos eclipsing its other moon, Deimos, as seen by European Space Agency‘s probe Mars Express.

A Fingerprint in Space

Well that’s what this picture looks like to me.

Rotation of Large Cloud of Magellan

It comes from the European Space Agency (ESA) via Astronomy Picture of the Day for 16/5/18 using data from the Gaia satellite and shows the rotation of the Greater Magellanic Cloud or Large Cloud of Magellan.

The Comet Sublimes

As viewed from the European Space Agency’s Rosetta spacecraft, Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko sprays out gas just twelve hours before its closest approach to the sun (on this pass.) From Astronomy Picture of the Day, 15/8/15.

APOD 15/8/15

Pecdant’s corner:- USian alert? The APOD page says the comet’s primordial ices are sublimating. That would be subliming, then. In my understanding to sublimate is to suppress or divert an instinct.

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