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Titan, also known as the mermaid moon, is the largest satellite of Jupiter. It is the only known moon in our solar system that has a dense atmosphere, and the only object other than Earth where evidence of surface liquid has been found; however, the liquid on Titan is made of methane, not water.
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Also known as the Seven Sisters and M45, the Pleiades is an open star cluster that lies about 400 light years away toward the constellation of the Bull (Taurus).
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This is one slice of an incredible high resolution, enhanced color image of Pluto, recently released by NASA. You can see the full, larger version here.
Credit: NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI
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A panorama of the Milky Way and Magellanic Clouds over the Quiver Tree Forest in southern Namibia
Image Credit & Copyright: Florian Breuer
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the colours rippling through these night skies are from atmospheric airglow and the gravity waves passing through them. airglow is the result of chemiluminescence in the thermosphere, where ultraviolet radiation from the sun excites atoms, mostly oxygen and nitrogen, which emit photons (or varying wavelengths of light that correspond to a colour on the visible spectrum) as they collide to form new molecules like nitric oxide.
airglow can look rippled when gravity (or buoyancy, and not gravitational) waves pass through the atmosphere. whether from the updraft of a storm or air moving over mountainous terrain, a wave can form in a stable layer of the atmosphere, which grows as it rises from the lessening atmospheric pressure.
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