Saturn’s north pole !

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Saturn’s north pole !

The hexagon is nearly 30,000 km (20,000 miles) wide. This is large enough that two Earths could fit inside the storm with room to spare.

It is a standing atmospheric wave created by a powerful jet stream that wraps around the pole. Winds along its edges can exceed 300 km/h (about 220 mph).

At the very center of the hexagon lies a deep, dark polar vortex that extends hundreds of kilometers down into Saturn’s atmosphere.

Spacecraft/Mission: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSI (Space Science Institute).

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apod: 2026 April 7 IC 4592: The Blue Horsehead Reflection…

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2026 April 7

IC 4592: The Blue Horsehead Reflection Nebula
Image Credit & Copyright: Rabeea Alkuwari

Explanation: Do you see the horse’s head? What you are seeing is not the famous Horsehead nebula toward Orion, but rather a fainter nebula that only takes on a familiar form with deeper imaging. The main part of the here-imaged molecular cloud complex is reflection nebula IC 4592. Reflection nebulas are made up of very fine dust that normally appears dark but can look quite blue when reflecting the visible light of energetic nearby stars. In this case, the source of much of the reflected light is a star at the eye of the horse. That star is part of Nu Scorpii, one of the brighter star systems toward the constellation of the Scorpion (Scorpius). A second reflection nebula dubbed IC 4601 is visible surrounding two stars just below the image center. The featured picture was taken from Sawda Natheel in Qatar.

∞ Source: apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap260407.html

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Gaia BH3 !

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Gaia BH3 !

This black hole was just discovered in the Milky Way and is 33 times more massive than the Sun. It’s extremely close to Earth, just 2,000 light-years away!

It’s the largest known black hole in our galaxy, formed during the collapse of a star !

Courtesy: Lisam Maia

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