https://www.europesays.com/2332375/ Small plug-in solar panel systems gain traction in US #business #California #ClimateAndEnvironment #CraigKeenan #DonaldTrump #EnergyIndustry #Europe #GeneralNews #KennethHutchings #KevinChou #Legislation #MichaelScherer #NewYork #planets #Politics #RaymondWard #RenewableEnergy #RyanOliver #StevenHegedus #TerrenceDwyer #U.S.News #U.S.RepublicanParty #UTStateWire #Utah #Utilities

#Moonlight, #Planets, and #Perseids
#Astronomy #Picture of the Day

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap250815.html

APOD from 2025-08-15

Moonlight, #Planets, and Perseids

#Jupiter and #Venus shone brightly in a close conjunction above the eastern horizon, captured near Gansu, China. Despite a waning gibbous #Moon, their light reflected in a pond, alongside flashes from the Perseid #Meteor Shower at its peak.

HD image at https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap250815.html#space #astronomy

The Planet Mars (1882) by Étienne Léopold Trouvelot, from The Trouvelot Astronomical Drawings.

Source: @nypl

Available to buy as a print.

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/aefb5005-9564-4cb2-ace2-a28c79470525

#Astronomy #Science #Planets #space #Discovery #JamesWebb #Telescope #exoplanets #AlphaCentauri #Earth
Always interesting, and even though it’s relatively close, it’ll take some very radical technology to get there.

New signs found of giant gas planet in 'Earth's neighbourhood' https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2xezw3dkpo

Crisp Views at 3AM allowed for an excellent capture of Saturn this morning!
Saturn Facts Included!

#educationalshorts
#saturn
#planets
#solarsystem
#educationalvideos
#astronomy
#nature
#astrophography
#photography
#smartphoneastronomy

https://youtube.com/shorts/J4yU4OULDi8?si=nPVSNJVp3aRQnM12

Astronomers have found that giant free floating #planets, sometimes called rogue planets or substellar objects, have the potential to form their own miniature planetary systems without the need for a #star.

Free floating planets are challenging to observe, as they are very dim and radiate mostly in the infrared. And yet, they hold the key to important questions in astrophysics.

Current research suggests that these are the lowest mass objects formed like stars from the collapse of giant gas clouds.

The new work characterizes these objects in depth, and confirms that they have masses around the same size as Jupiter.

Some of them also have excess emissions in the infrared caused by warm dust in their immediate vicinity. This is the characteristic sign of disks, flattened structures which are the birthplaces of planets.

Observations also show emission from silicate grains in the disks, with clear signs of dust growth and crystallization—the typical first steps in the formation of rocky planets.

#exoplanets #astronomy
https://phys.org/news/2025-08-giant-free-planets-planetary.html

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Impatience has always been my problem. Here are some bits and pieces of my SCIFI serie.
#billisdead #sd35 #retroscifi #scifi #atmospheric #planets #deepspace

https://www.europesays.com/2289573/ NASA and India’s space agency launch radar satellite to map Earth’s land and ice #AerospaceAndDefenseIndustry #AsiaPacific #astronomy #CaseySwails #Climate #ClimateAndEnvironment #India #JitendraSingh #NationalAeronauticsAndSpaceAdministration #NickyFox #planets #science #SouthAsia #space #SpaceExploration #SPACECRAFT #technology

If it wasn't already clear, #Proxima b and d can now be considered confirmed #planets because they have been clearly identified in independent near-infrared Doppler spectroscopic data.

#exoplanets #astronomy
https://astrobiology.com/2025/07/studying-the-planetary-system-of-proxima-centauri-with-nirps.html

Cosmic rays could create the #energy needed to support #life underground on #planets and moons in our solar system.

They may not only be harmless in certain environments, but could actually help microscopic life survive.

When cosmic rays hit #water or ice underground, the impact breaks water molecules apart and releases tiny particles called electrons.

Some bacteria on Earth can use these electrons for energy, similar to how plants use sunlight.

This process is called #radiolysis, and it can power life even in dark, cold environments with no sunlight.

#astrobiology
https://phys.org/news/2025-07-life-survive-beneath-surface-mars.html

Poll: Songs in Space | which do you prefer? #space #astronomy #stars #planets #songs #music #poll