The Celestial Zoo

Cosmic Web! 🌌✨

The universe is interconnected, with galaxies forming a vast web.

Milky Way and Local Group 🌠

Our galaxy is a vast collection of stars, planets, and cosmic phenomena. The Milky Way is beautiful.

Outer Solar System 🪐

Venture beyond the inner planets to explore gas giants and icy worlds. Each has its own unique characteristics and mysteries!

Horizontal Log Map of the Observable Universe 🌌

Inner Solar System ☀️ The planets closest to us, where Earth is just one of the many celestial wonders in our cosmic neighborhood
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37 - The Number in Everyone´s Mind

✦ There are 37 slots in a European roulette.

✦ 37 is the smallest non-supersingular prime and also a cuban prime, a Padovan prime, a lucky prime, a sexy prime, and a permutable prime.

✦ The smallest angle of a 3-4-5 triangle is 36.87º.

✦ A “perfect” bridge hand sums 37 high card points

✦ There are 37 movements in Beethoven’s Nine Symphonies.

✦ Shakespeare wrote 37 plays.

✦ 37 is the median value for the second prime factor of an integer.

✦ There are 37 miracles in the Bible.

✦ 37 seconds passed from sighting the iceberg to hitting the Titanic.

✦ There are 37 ways to make $5 using denominations of 5.00, 1.00, 0.50, and 0.25

✦ 37 minutes is the golden section of an hour.

✦ 37 is a A019296 number giving a near-integer result for Exp(Pi*Sqrt(37))

✦ There are 37 vertebrae in a Tyrannosaurus rex tail.

✦ 37 complex reflection groups exist.

✦ 37 is the solution to Waring’s problem for g(5): every positive integer is the sum of at most 37 fifth powers.

✦ There are 37 bars in the digits of a digital clock.

✦ 37 is the central cell of the smallest magic square using only primes and one.

✦ 37 is a divisor of the sum of the squares of the first 37 primes

✦ 37 billion disintegrations per second is a Curie: 1 Ci = 37 109 Bq

✦ 3×7×37 equals to the lucky number 777.

✦ 37% of the options should be sampled and rejected before picking the next better one.

✦ 37% chances of success when optimal stopping in the secretary problem.

✦ 37 is the human body temperature in Celsius.

✦ 37 is the first irregular prime with an irregularity index of 1

✦Most frequently chosen random two-digit number by people.

✦ 37 genes in the mitochondrial genome.

✦ 37 is the number of the most uniform solids in three-dimensional space.

✦ There usually are 37 holes in the speaker part of an old telephone.

The real star of randomness and bizarre appearances is 37. Let me show you why in 28 more fascinating facts about this mystical number.

37 - The Number in Everyone´s Mind

37 is an important number for lots of reasons. Ever wondered why 37 is the magic number of times you can hit snooze before you’re officially late?

Logarithmic cosmic view of the solar system, featuring planets, moons, and notable celestial objects orbiting the Sun.

Gas giants of our solar system, detailing their moons and significant mission dates for exploration.

Trajectories of missions to Mars, highlighting key asteroid and comet encounters and their launch details.

Space missions, showing paths from the Sun, Mercury, and Venus to Earth and beyond.

Light years as a distance unit, showcasing the nearest stars to the Sun and their distances in light years.

A top view of the solar system's asteroid belt, detailing groups and their distances from the Sun, including Jupiter trojans.

Distribution of asteroids and their average distances from the Sun, highlighting various asteroid groups and orbits.

Solar system distances

Astronomical units (AU) and their relation to the distances of planets in our solar system from the Sun. Explore and zoom it at: bit.ly/planetstoscale (link in bio and story)
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Stellar evolution

🌠 Stellar Endings:

Stars don't live forever! Massive stars explode (Supernovae 💥), forming Neutron Stars or Black Holes. Smaller stars end as White Dwarfs. Stars recycle elements, shaping the universe from birth to death!

Layers of an evolved star

The Layers of an Evolved Star just before core collapses 🔥

A Red Supergiant! As stars age, they burn elements from Hydrogen to Iron. Each layer reflects a stage of nuclear fusion.

These processes create the elements that make up everything around us—including YOU! 🌟

Stars Classification

🔭 Stellar Classification:

Stars are grouped by their light spectrum and properties—this reveals their temperature, size, and even their chemical composition (Hydrogen, Helium, Iron, etc.). This classification helps us predict how stars behave and evolve!

HR Diagram

The HR Diagram shows stars' patterns!
🟡Y-axis: Brightness,
🔵X-axis: Temperature.

Most stars, like our Sun are on the Main Sequence. Red Giants and White Dwarfs, are in different evolutionary stages.
This diagram helps predict a star’s lifespan, size, and energy!

Stellar Evolution

Stellar Evolution 🌌🔥

Ever wondered how the life of a star unfolds? 🤔
Let’s dive into the fascinating world of Stellar Evolution!

The final composite image combines all optical effects, showing the black hole and warped disk globally.

Comparison of the disk’s true rotation versus the apparent rotation seen from beneath, shaped by gravity.

The photon ring glows brightly as light orbits the black hole, revealing images of the disk’s underside.