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What’s Up for September 2017?

Set your sights beyond the solar system and take a late summertime road trip along the Milky Way!

On September 15 the Cassini spacecraft ends its glorious Saturnian science tour by plunging into the atmosphere of Saturn, becoming forever a part of the ringed planet. Learn more about the end of mission activities HERE. 

This month Saturn is the only prominent evening planet low in the southwest sky. 

Look for it near the constellation Sagittarius. Above and below Saturn–from a dark sky–you can’t miss the summer Milky Way spanning the sky from northeast to southwest.

Grab a pair of binoculars and scan the teapot-shaped Sagittarius, where stars and some brighter clumps appear as steam from the teapot. Those bright clumps are near the center of our galaxy, which is full of gas, dust and stars.

Directly overhead is the great Summer Triangle of stars. Vega, Altair and Deneb are in the pretty constellations Lyra, Aquila and Cygnus.

As you gaze toward the northeast you’ll see Cassiopeia, the familiar W-shaped constellation…and Perseus. Through your binoculars, look for the Perseus Double Cluster. Both of the clusters are visible with the naked eye, are 7500 light years away, and contain more than 300 blue-white super-giant stars!

Every star and every object you can see with your unaided eye is part of the Milky Way. With one exception: the great Andromeda galaxy, which is faintly visible through binoculars on the opposite side of the night sky from Saturn and the teapot.

You can find out about our missions studying the solar system and universe at: https://www.nasa.gov/topics/solarsystem/index.html

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Ask Ethan: How Does Spinning Affect The Shape Of Pulsars?

“[S]ome pulsars have incredible spin rates. How much does this distort the object, and does it shed material this way or is gravity still able to bind all of the material to the object?”

If you spin too quickly, the matter on the outskirts of your surface will fly off. If you’re in hydrostatic equilibrium, your shape will simply distort until your equatorial bulge and your polar flattening result in the most stable, lowest-energy configuration. For our Earth, this means the best place to launch a rocket is near the equator, and our planet’s polar diameter is a little more than 20 km shorter than its equatorial diameter. But what about for the fastest-rotating natural object we know of: a neutron star. While most neutron stars rotate a few times a second, the fastest one makes 766 rotations in that span, meaning that a neutron on the surface moves at about 16% the speed of light. Much faster, and could it escape? Or, perhaps, is the pulsar’s shape highly distorted, either due to that rotation or to the incredibly strong magnetic fields inside? Neutron star matter is very different from anything we’re used to, so don’t bet on any of those.

Other than the first few fractions-of-a-second, changes to neutron stars are slow and mostly inconsequential. Come find out how bad it is on this edition of Ask Ethan!

Dot by dot, star by star…

Vacation on Mars

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Art by @psguy2026

Mars is the Mission

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✗ @onesuv

Music is my Universe

With the right music you have the universe in your mind.

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Credit:@indg0

Just like on Earth, other planets in the solar system also have auroras. Jupiter’s auroras are the strongest in the solar system. These images were captured by the Juno, Galileo and Hubble probes.

Imagens: NASA, ESA, Juno, Galileo, Hubble

Giveaway: We’re giving away 12 vintage classics by Truman Capote, Mary Shelley, Chinua Achebe, Shakespeare, John Keats, and others! Won’t they look lovely on your shelf? =) Enter to win these classics by: 1) following macrolit on Tumblr (yes, we will check. :P), and 2) reblogging this post. We will choose a random winner on 3 July, at which time we’ll start a new giveaway. Good luck! Follow our IG account to be eligible for our IG giveaways. For full rules to all of our giveaways, click here.

by  Ching Yeh

“La muerte nos otorga nuevas perspectivas. Nos da la posibilidad de nacer de nuevo desde otros ojos.. el nacimiento de un niño siempre trae consigo el recuerdo de las sonrisas y el asombro. El renacimiento de nuestra propia consciencia visto desde afuera.”

Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell This edition available at: Leigh’s Favorite Books

La “Vesica Piscis” es una de las mas profundas figuras de geometría sagrada. Representa la vagina de la Diosa, la unión creadora de lo Sagrado Masculino y lo Sagrado Femenino. Es motivo básico de la Flor de la Vida. Es el recurso de energía. Es el portal de luz que une lo material y lo espiritual. Es el NACIMIENTO.

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On the Road, Jack Kerouac This is 1 of 3 Penguin Classics that comprise our IG giveaway, and we’re choosing a random winner today!

Nosferatu y manostijeras

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At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.- Lao Tzu

Art by Harumi Hironaka Motion by TheGlitch #theglitch

“There’s as many atoms in a single molecule of your DNA as there are stars in the typical galaxy. We are, each of us, a little universe.” - Neil deGrasse Tyson

MARTE Y JÚPITER

Cuando encuentras a alguien que te pueda entender en todas las formas y ámbitos, descubres la libertad de ser. Manten la mente libre y tu alma tambien

MjX

NGC 6357

by Betty Turbo

Located in northern California, Lassen Volcanic National Park is a true winter wonderland. Silent, snow-covered volcanoes hide magma beneath their calm surfaces – clues to the area’s three million years of volcanic activity show up in steam vents, boiling springs and bubbling mudpots. Even in winter, these hydrothermal (“hot water”) features melt nearby snow and ice. Photo by Mike Matiasek, National Park Service.

Treat your valentine to something a bit creepy