Check out some amazing images recently captured on the Solar System
Every astronomy fan knows how far science has advanced in recent decades - and how much the equipment used to explore the cosmos has progressed technologically since the first telescopes came into existence centuries ago.
To give you some insight, a captured image of Neptune - about 4.3 to 4.7 billion kilometers away from Earth depending on where it is in orbit - has been released in recent days. of our planet by new equipment from the VLT (Very Large Telescope, a set of telescopes in the Atacama Desert), and it's amazing to see the photo next to a similar one registered by the Hubble Space Telescope. See below:
Amazing, isn't it? But this up there is not the only haunting image that has been recorded of stars that "inhabit" the Solar System recently, no! Many more were shared by space agencies, scientific institutions, and other "ground" groups - and you can check a selection of these records below:
1 - No make
You may recall seeing this image of Pluto earlier, right? Captured in 2015 by the New Horizons space probe, the record was recently reprocessed to show what colors our eyes would see if we had the opportunity to travel to the dwarf planet. By the way, the same process was done with Charon (or Charon if you prefer), Pluto's largest satellite.
2 - Gorgeous Giant
Just catching the eye on the beautiful image above can deduce that it is probably the most photogenic planet in the Solar System. Yes, we are talking about Jupiter, and the picture, taken by the Juno spacecraft on July 15, during a flight over the gas giant, shows some clouds at a distance of 6, 200 kilometers.
3 - Infrared Titan
All six records gathered above show Titan, one of Saturn's moons, and were captured in the infrared spectrum. In fact, the images were captured by the Cassini spacecraft over 13 years, but NASA is still processing the immensity of data collected by the equipment - and these photos are the clearest processed satellite view ever.
4 - Infernal Activity
It sounds like a sinister explosion - or the opening to an infernal dimension - but the image above shows Io, one of Jupiter's moons. The record was released by NASA about two weeks ago and was captured during a study in which astronomers identified a (possible) new volcano on the satellite's surface. Look:
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