Stargazing with Waddensky
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A crater full of ice near the north pole of #Mars. Its ice is up to 1.8 km thick and never melts: a layer of cold air shields it. The image was stitched together from five orbits.
📸 ESA/DLR/FU Berlin
#Astrophotography #Astronomy The #Sun contains 99.8% of all the mass in our solar system, and #Jupiter accounts for most of the rest. All the planets, moons, comets and asteroids together are just a rounding error!
📸 NASA/SDO
#Astronomy #Space This pillar of gas and dust is the #ConeNebula. Radiation from hot young stars above it has been eroding the pillar for millions of years. The whole pillar is 7 light-years long.
📸 NASA/H. Ford/ESA
#Astrophotography #Astronomy 
