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UniverseDiscovery🌌🔭 @creatorbluesky.bsky.social · Mar 20

Karoline Leavitt REVEALS Gov't WASTEFUL SPENDING Exposed by DOGE – Shocks Reporters!

YouTube video by Serial Gossip

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UniverseDiscovery🌌🔭 @creatorbluesky.bsky.social · Jan 17

The Horsehead Nebula (also known as Barnard 33) is a small dark nebula in the constellation Orion. The nebula is located just to the south of Alnitak, the easternmost star of Orion’s Belt, and is part of the much larger Orion Molecular Cloud Complex.

Credit: NASA/ESA & Hubble

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UniverseDiscovery🌌🔭 @creatorbluesky.bsky.social · Jan 17

A spiral galaxy, observed with the Hubble Space Telescope in the COSMOS survey.

It is at redshift 0.11 (lookback time 1.47 billion years) with coordinates (149.87636, 2.86185).

49 volunteers classified this galaxy in Galaxy Zoo: Hubble.🔭

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UniverseDiscovery🌌🔭 @creatorbluesky.bsky.social · Jan 17

Tonight in
Star Gazing in the Park
Photo credit JWEBB
Milky Way, interstellar medium
Swirling ribands of dust form ribands due to gravitational, electric and tidal forces which inhabit the spaces between stars. Typically invisible this image was brought to you by the light of Zeta Ophiuchi

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UniverseDiscovery🌌🔭 @creatorbluesky.bsky.social · Jan 15

This image shows the Antennae Galaxies (NGC 4038 & NGC 4039), 60 million light-years away in Corvus. These galaxies are in the process of merging, creating tidal tails and bursts of star formation from their gravitational interaction.

Photo Credit: Robert Gendler

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UniverseDiscovery🌌🔭 @creatorbluesky.bsky.social · Jan 15

Open star cluster Westerlund 1. A home to a variety of young, massive stars.

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UniverseDiscovery🌌🔭 @creatorbluesky.bsky.social · Jan 15

A Flash of Life

Credit:ESA/Hubble & NASA

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UniverseDiscovery🌌🔭 @creatorbluesky.bsky.social · Jan 15

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UniverseDiscovery🌌🔭 @creatorbluesky.bsky.social · Jan 14

Billions of years from now, only one galaxy will remain as spiral galaxies NGC 2207 (right) and IC 2163 (left) slowly merge. This composite of Hubble and Webb images shows their recent encounter, triggering star formation and tidal streams.

Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI

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UniverseDiscovery🌌🔭 @creatorbluesky.bsky.social · Jan 14

First JWST image of 2025.
Wolf-Rayet star WR 140.
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UniverseDiscovery🌌🔭 @creatorbluesky.bsky.social · Jan 14

A merger, observed with the Hubble Space Telescope in the CANDELS-GOODS survey.

It is at redshift 0.27 (lookback time 3.25 billion years) with coordinates (53.18445, -27.86141).

75 volunteers classified this galaxy in Galaxy Zoo CANDELS.

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UniverseDiscovery🌌🔭 @creatorbluesky.bsky.social · Jan 14

Photo I just took of Mars setting behind the Moon

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UniverseDiscovery🌌🔭 @creatorbluesky.bsky.social · Jan 14

This infrared image from NASA Spitzer Space Telescope shows the Helix nebula, a cosmic starlet often photographed by amateur astronomers for its vivid colors and eerie resemblance to a giant eye.

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ.of Ariz.

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UniverseDiscovery🌌🔭 @creatorbluesky.bsky.social · Jan 13

The Milky Way above the Ring of Brodgar, on Orkney.

In an otherwise clear sky, it was "disappointing" to have that band of cloud that just didn't want to disperse.

The bright light on the clouds is from the town of Stromness, where we had docked a few hours earlier.

#Photography

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UniverseDiscovery🌌🔭 @creatorbluesky.bsky.social · Jan 13

Sums it up nicely

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The Traveler | Galaxy Pixels @ekvitki.bsky.social · Jan 12

#pixelart #art #space

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UniverseDiscovery🌌🔭 @creatorbluesky.bsky.social · Jan 13

The Milky Way above the Ring of Brodgar, on Orkney.

In an otherwise clear sky, it was "disappointing" to have that band of cloud that just didn't want to disperse.

The bright light on the clouds is from the town of Stromness, where we had docked a few hours earlier.

#Photography

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UniverseDiscovery🌌🔭 @creatorbluesky.bsky.social · Jan 10

An astrophysicist and a neurosurgeon concluded that the human brain and the universe basically grow as a result of similar physical principles.

Today’s House of Study goody looks at a myriad of similar connections, with many exquisite photos:

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UniverseDiscovery🌌🔭 @creatorbluesky.bsky.social · Jan 10

Pismis 24, an open star cluster around 8,000 light-years away in the core of the NGC 6357 nebula in the constellation Scorpius.

Image Credit: NASA, ESA, and J. Maíz Apellániz, et al

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UniverseDiscovery🌌🔭 @creatorbluesky.bsky.social · Jan 9

Hard to process the devastation I’ve witnessed in the last two days. Still in a state of shock for those who have lost so much in such a short period of time. #NoWords 💔

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UniverseDiscovery🌌🔭 @creatorbluesky.bsky.social · Jan 9

JWST peers deep into space, taking a snapshot of over 20,000 galaxies, some whose light comes to us from over 12 billion light-years away.
This image was presented today on AAS Nova.

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Nature is Amazing ☘️ @naturewillamazing.bsky.social · Jan 7

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UniverseDiscovery🌌🔭 @creatorbluesky.bsky.social · Jan 7

The Milky Way in the skies of Western Australia photographed by Trevor Dobson🌌

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Nature is Amazing ☘️ @naturewillamazing.bsky.social · Jan 6

Three years ago, at the urging of my dying mother, I purchased my very first camera and commenced my photography journey. After countless videos and articles on how to everything Canon R5 it has been worth it. A few of my favorite landscapes from year 3 #photography #canonusa
#landscapephotography

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UniverseDiscovery🌌🔭 @creatorbluesky.bsky.social · Jan 6

A Whirlpool Galaxy |NASA|

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