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Andrea Luck
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🛰️🪐 Space voyager processing space images 📡💻

🎞️ HD Photostream: https://www.flickr.com/photos/192271236@N03/
🎋Other places: https://linktr.ee/andrealuck
🌍Glasgow, Scotland 🌱 (He/Him)
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Andrea Luck @andrealuck.bsky.social · Oct 26
Fresh JWST view of Uranus taken Oct 6 2025 with NIRCam.

Full size & more info: flic.kr/p/2rByidu 🔭🧪
Credit: NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI/Andrea Luck CC BY

Proposal PI: Varun Bajaj
Proposal ID: 8975
Filters: F150W2-F162M, F410M
Image of Uranus taken by the James Webb Space Telescope, showing a whitish north polar region, vivid blue-greenish atmosphere and a few whitish elongated storms visible around the pole. The planet is surrounded by clearly defined ring system set against the black background of space.
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theseaning.bsky.social
'Arcade Fire'

101,637 ångström frames acquired by Solar Dynamics Observatory are conformed, repaired, graded, blended, rescaled & retimed to create the film with music by Chris Zabriskie.

youtu.be/hvVUOPEb_no
SDO - Arcade Fire
YouTube video by Seán Doran
youtu.be
November 24, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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landru79.bsky.social
Nice one today!

#NASA's #Mars #Perseverance rover

Sol 1693 Nov. 24, 2025: Left Navigation Camera

mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/mul...

NASA/JPL-Caltech/j. Roger
November 24, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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yuvharpaz.bsky.social
I am not sure this work is better than my bot's, but I did try to integrate all NIRCam data. I had to compromise the resolution, it was too much for my laptop to handle in full scale.
JWST 🔭: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI.
A richly detailed infrared view of the star-forming complex N159 in the Large Magellanic Cloud. The frame is filled with thousands of tiny white and blue stars scattered across a dark field. Toward the center and right, large cloudy structures of gas and dust glow in shades of soft gray, blue, and warm orange. Filamentary wisps weave through the scene, outlining bubbles and cavities carved by stellar winds. Brighter knots of light mark young, newly forming stars embedded within the nebula. The overall appearance is a sprawling, textured landscape of turbulent interstellar material illuminated against the star-studded background
November 24, 2025 at 8:02 AM
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longpainter.bsky.social
Night sky in phthalo over Glacier N.P. 10”x10” oil
November 23, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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landru79.bsky.social
That grav. lens efect is crazy

James #Webb Space Telescope #JWST

Vast Exploration for Nascent, Unexplored Sources
TARG: #A68
2025-11-21
PI: Fujimoto, Seiji
NIRCAM 444 410 356 300 277 210 200 150 115 090

yuval-harpaz.github.io/astro/jwst_l...

NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI/j. Roger
November 22, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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landru79.bsky.social
James #Webb Space Telescope #JWST

Tracing the evolution of circumstellar and protoplanetary disks at low metallicity

TARG: #LHA-120-N-159
2024-11-20
PI: Sabbi, Elena
NIRCAM f460 f444-470 f360 f335 f300 f210 f187 f140 f115

yuval-harpaz.github.io/astro/jwst_l...

NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI/j. Roger
November 22, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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cheribliss.bsky.social
🔭 JWST Program 5114 - Tracing the evolution of circumstellar and protoplanetary disks at low metallicity: www.stsci.edu/jwst-program...

target: LHA-120-N-159-NIRCam, released: 2025-11-21
NASA, ESA, CSA, STSci/ #JWST NIRCam 335, 460, 115
target: LHA-120-N-159-NIRCam, released: 2025-11-21, processed: C.Blanchard
November 22, 2025 at 5:15 AM
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landru79.bsky.social
#CASSINI-HUYGENS #SATURN MISSION

Target Name: #Saturn
Start Time: 2007-02-08
Instrument Name: #VIMS
Channel: VIS

opus.pds-rings.seti.org/opus/#/COVIM...

NASA/JPL/Univ. Arizona/LPG Nantes/j. Roger
November 21, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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theseaning.bsky.social
'Light Fantastic'

21,837 images across 18 time-lapse sequences photographed by Don Pettit & Butch Wilmore are repaired, remastered and retimed to create 3x real time video footage.

Credit: Butch Wilmore / Don Pettit / ISS / NASA / ESRS / Seán Doran

www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cKk...
ISS - Light Fantastic
YouTube video by Seán Doran
www.youtube.com
November 21, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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melina-iras07572.bsky.social
(1/n) Image thread about the LHA 120-N 159 (or just N159) region with #JWST NIRCam. Here the filters F300M (blue), F335M (red) and F460M (green) 🔭
I made F335M red because this is PAH, otherwise the entire image would be green.
Full resolution: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:LH...
An orange-red nebula with cyan filling the voids.
November 21, 2025 at 6:38 AM
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ddavisspaceart.bsky.social
The view from from the windows of the Apollo 12 Lunar Module just after landing 56 years ago. Apollo 12 was a great mission although the loss of the color TV camera at the beginning of the first EVA was a blow to live network coverage. In due time we saw the color and B&W photos the crew returned.
This is a panorama assembled from numerous photographs made through the windows of the Apollo 12 Lunar Module 'Intrepid' shortly after landing on November 19, 1969. After the successful first landing by Apollo 11 in July the second mission refined methods to make precision landings. They succeeded, and landed within walking distance to the derelict probe Surveyor 3 which had touched down on April 20 1967. The scenery shows the saturated cratered surface typical of the Lunar lava plains, or 'Maria', with impact craters of all size ranges covering the pulverized surface. This is a landscape of eternity, with only the locations of the innumerable craters changing over time as new ones gradually erase the older ones. The shadow of the LM stretches toward the horizon, with a bright 'Heiligenschein' glow centered on the antisolar point. This brightening is caused by the lack of visible cast shadows behind the illuminated irregular surfaces, making a 'zero phase' point, and enhanced by the presence of tiny glass beads scattered in the upper surface layer, or 'regolith'. Just as this appears around where the shadow of the observer would be, one can see a comparable effect when walking in the early morning across a wide field of grass covered with dew. Near the shadow of your head a brightening will appear as the many round drops refract the light so a lot of it returns in roughly the direction it came from. Road markers and signs also use paint with imbedded glass beads to reflect light back at autos.
November 20, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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hourlycosmos.bsky.social
ESP_014414_2205 - From UAHiRISE (NASA) (uahirise.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/dZHdJD
November 20, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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kevinmgill.bsky.social
The crests of two ridges to the west and northwest of the Mars Perseverance Rover. Imaged using MastCam-Z yesterday on Sol 1687.

flic.kr/p/2rGnEUB
flic.kr/p/2rGmsw9
November 19, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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gimpofficial.bsky.social
www.gimp.org/news/2025/11...

First release candidate for GIMP 3.2, after months of hard work. Note: it’s a development snapshot, not a final release. Please report any problems/crashes.

#GIMP3 #GImp_3 #beta #imageEditor #GPL #freeSoftware #libreGraphics #graphicDesign
GIMP - GIMP 3.2 RC1: First Release Candidate for GIMP 3.2
Release news for version GIMP 3.2 RC1
www.gimp.org
November 18, 2025 at 12:36 AM
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danielmachacek.bsky.social
As far as the weather forecast goes, it looks like I only had one hour to try to get a pictures of interstellar comet 3I/Atlas.
And it worked!
Even the tail is faintly visible.
It looks like typical comet even with small equipment - Olympus E-M1II with 75-300 mm lens and Minitrack LX2 tracker.
Long exposure image composite of interstellat comet 3I/Atlas. The comet is visible like green spot with a faint tail in the center of the image with star trails around it. Total exposure around 50 minutes. The source images for the composite image were taken on November 19, 2025.
November 20, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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hicommander.bsky.social
Here's our captioned release:

www.uahirise.org/hipod/ESP_08...
The HiRISE image of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS. It shows a fuzzy white blob (the comet) on a dark background (space).
November 19, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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nick-stevens.com
Here's an old one, only 1080p...
Diving past the 2001 Space Odyssey space station.

Models, video, etc by me.
November 20, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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nick-stevens.com
Hmmm. Quick and dirty test, cutting out a still from the Orion docking approach, and replacing the sky in the opening.

I'm wondering if I could tackle building this.

The walls and nurnies are detailed, but simple.
Could I pull off the offices? With movement?
November 20, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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squigglyvolcano.bsky.social
NEW: Not long after Earth formed, it received a giant sucker punch when an object named Theia crashed into it, unleashing debris that made the Moon. But where did Theia come from—the outer solar system?

Nope. The Moon-making impact was an inside job.

Me @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/s...
The Moon Was an Inside Job
www.nytimes.com
November 20, 2025 at 9:46 PM
andrealuck.bsky.social
1/2 After spreading all that alien nonsense about the interstellar comet, the same “influencers” are now blaming NASA simply because they don’t like the images, despite having no understanding of what it takes to photograph a fast, unexpected interstellar object from every available vantage point.
November 20, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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melina-iras07572.bsky.social
NGC 4666 with #JWST NIRCam+MIRI 🔭
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:NG...
A spiral galaxy with a blue nucleus and orange-red fluffy clouds.
November 20, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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philplait.bsky.social
What happens when you combine the most powerful infrared telescope ever built with the most powerful X-ray telescope ever built?

Absolute, astonishing gorgeousity.

badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/powers-of-...

🧪 🔭
Powers of Chandra and JWST unite!
The two great telescopes combine to make amazing science and gorgeous images
badastronomy.beehiiv.com
November 20, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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landru79.bsky.social
James #Webb Space Telescope #JWST

Scrutinizing the Dirtiest Cepheids, a Test of the Hubble Tension

TARG: #NGC2525
2024-11-16
PI: Riess, Adam
NIRCAM 277 150 090

yuval-harpaz.github.io/astro/jwst_l...

NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI/j. Roger
November 20, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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scrutacieli.bsky.social
Non c'è difesa contro certi momenti ✨
In un cielo colorato di blu profondo splendono le stelle, tra cui quelle della costellazione di Orione. In basso montagne e valli punteggiate di luci artificiali che illuminano nubi basse sull'orizzonte di un colore giallastro. Quella è stata una di quelle serate bellissime in cui ti sorprendi anche se dovresti essere ormai immune. Ma non c'è difesa contro l'infinito.
November 19, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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martian-observer.art
NASA Mars Perseverance Rover at Jezero crater
Sol 1629 (19th September, 2025)

Subject "Phippsaksla," now revealed to be high in iron and nickel - suggesting it may have formed elsewhere in the solar system

ZCAM09712
Site 79 / 488
📷 Credits: NASA / JPL-Caltech / ASU / MSSS / Martian-Observer
A colour photo from the Martian surface shows a close-up of a large tan and pale orange rock pockmarked with numerous large holes, which are mostly filled with dark, rust-coloured sand. In the background, pale orange, very rocky terrain is visible in the top third of the image
November 19, 2025 at 7:46 PM