Sligo Weekender

Mysterious Type of Exoplanet

Small, Cool, and Shrouded in Haze ↗

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Infrared image of a glowing orange dust cloud in space, surrounded by a dense field of stars against a dark background, captured by NASA’s SPHEREx mission.

Capturing the Sky ↗

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The Universe's Brightest Lights Have Some Dark Origins

Dark Origins ↗

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On a black background under the header of “Galaxy Zoo” and the projects navigation tabs About, Classify, Talk, Collect, Recents, Lab, and Galaxy Zoo, we see an image of a fuzzy, silver, spiral-armed galaxy on the left. On the right a question prompts the viewer to classify the image as smooth, with features or disks, or a star, artifact, or bad zoom image.

Galaxy Hunting ↗

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Two astronauts are seen working on the outside of the International Space Station through a window.

US Spacewalk 93 ↗

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Composite shows portions of four Hubble images from left to right. First, the left half of Mars in shades of orange, blues, and browns. Second, a tiny portion of the Rosette Nebula shows very dark gray material against a translucent blue background. Third, a portion of planetary nebula NGC 2899 looks like the number three in shades of red and orange. Fourth, the center of barred spiral galaxy NGC 5335 has a milky yellow center that forms a bar surrounded by the beginnings of blue star-filled spiral arms.

Eye on Infinity ↗

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Welcome to Earth ↗

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Gif of Asteroid Donaldjohanson, as seen by the Lucy spacecraft during its close flyby. The asteroid looks like two lobes, attached by a thinner cylinder, like a barbell with very large weights. One lobe is smaller than the other. Although they are both about the same circumference, the smaller lobe is less wide than the other. The asteroid is a smooth, light gray surface, with smooth-edged craters dimpling its surface. The larger lobe has many more craters. The asteroid moves closer to the camera, pushing in on the larger lobe. Then it rotates slightly to look along the asteroid long-ways.

Asteroid Donaldjohanson ↗

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