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What are the twinkling stars in the New Horizons Arrokoth approach?
Those are actually a visual artifact known as "jitter". It is caused by the motion of the spacecraft as it travels through space. The motion causes the light from the stars to appear to &...
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How did asteroid (7482) 1994 PC1 get its "face"? Is it reconstructed from optical or radar imaging, or something else?
The face situation is getting curiouser and curiouser!
At first, when I went to the actual page in NASA Eyes for the asteroid https://eyes.nasa.gov/apps/asteroids/#/asteroids/7482_1994_pc1 I could not ...
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How did asteroid (7482) 1994 PC1 get its "face"? Is it reconstructed from optical or radar imaging, or something else?
These are images taken from Nasa's Eyes on Asteroids site. It lets you see the orbit and get information about the asteroid in a nice interactive way. For asteroids with a known shape and surface ...
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Small bright constellation on the photo
The object inside the red circle is indeed The Pleiades. Note that it is not a constellation, it is an open star cluster located in the constellation Taurus.
A good way to identify constellations in a ...
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Small bright constellation on the photo
These are the Pleiades. I verified it comparing your photo with the Stellarium app.
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Why does one object (star?) in this JWST image have two sets of six+plus+two diffraction spikes but another, similar object nearby have only one?
if you think that's weird, you should check out this press-release image from ESA -- showing a mosaic of HST and JWST images of a region near the North Ecliptic Pole as part of the PEARLS program -- ...
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