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NASA's Hubble Space Telescope Discovers Water Vapor On Jupiter's Moon
The astronomers for the first time by using new and archived datasets from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have discovered evidence of water vapor in Jupiter's moon's atmosphere, Ganymede. The water vapor was likely to have formed due to sublimation, turning solid ice into gas. Ganymede is the largest moon in our solar system and research suggests that it may contain more water than all of Earth's oceans together.
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Photographer Shot 1,000 Hrs In 12 Years To Create Milky Way Panorama
Finnish photographer JP Metsavainio has created a panorama of the Milky Way in over 12 years with 1200 hours of exposure. The panorama with 1,00,000 pixels wide and 234 mosaic panels stitched together features over 20Mn stars. Astrophotographer by profession, Metsavainio started working on it in 2009 and used Photoshop to do the mosaic work. Talking about the Cygnus constellation, Metsavainio stated, "I can spend the rest of my life…shooting… read-more
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