EARTH SCIENCE NEWS - LIGHTNING LIGHTNING Washington Monument and Lightning Bolt Lightning Display Over Surfers Paradise Queensland Lightning Display Over Central Florida This artists’s cartoon view gives an impression of how common planets are around the stars in the Milky Way. The planets, their orbits and their host stars are all vastly magnified compared to their real separations. The Hubble telescope has captured an image of an unusual edge-on galaxy, revealing remarkable details of its warped dusty disk and showing how colliding galaxies spawn the formation of new generations of stars. Compass and Scale Image of M83 The star cluster Pismis 24 lies in the core of the large emission nebula NGC 6357 that extends one degree on the sky in the direction of the Scorpius constellation. Hot Jupiters, exoplanets around the same size as Jupiter that orbit very closely to their stars, often have cloud or haze layers in their atmospheres. Pictured here is the region around the host star of the exoplanet GJ 1132 b
