cloud9pvt.ltd

In the coming weeks, NASA’s Perseverance rover will head to Mars to explore the remains of a muddy river delta more than 3 billion years old. The journey could help resolve the debate of whether ancient Mars was warm and wet or cold and dry.

Learn more: https://fcld.ly/oa9fb0x

On this day 5 years ago: 7 July 2015, this cool pic was taken by ESA's Rosetta Mission at a distance of 154 km from Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko ☄, just one of many iconic images. More 👉https://blogs.esa.int/rosetta/2015/07/15/cometwatch-7-july/

Unspeakable beauty and unimaginable bedlam can be found together in the Orion Nebula. Arguably the most famous of all astronomy nebulas, the Great Nebula in Orion is an immense interstellar molecular cloud only 1500 light-years away. In the featured deep image shown in assigned colors, the part of the nebula's center known as M43 is shown as taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. The Great Nebula in Orion can be found with the unaided eye near the easily identifiable belt of three stars in the popular constellation Orion. The entire Orion Nebula, including both M42 and M43 spans about 40 light years and is located in the same spiral arm of our Galaxy as the Sun.

Larger image: https://buff.ly/3grkKMI

On this day in 2012, physicists at CERN discovered the Higgs particle, confirming the theory of how particles acquire mass.

But before the particle was discovered it had to be imagined - by theoretical physicists François Englert and Peter Higgs, who were awarded the Nobel Prize in 2013, almost 50 years after they first independently came up with the theory of the Higgs.