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MissDalia
@missdalia.bsky.social
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Just a simple woman dreaming of a farmhouse life, caring for my amazing husband and farm animals. Lover of science, with a curious obsession for time travel and the moon and space.
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The birth of a star captured by JWST 💫✨💫😲💫✨💫
January 1, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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ARP 273
Photo NASA ESA and Hubble Wide Field Camera
Distance 300 million light years
Constellation Andromeda
Discovered Halton Arp 1966
Two galaxies collided to form this unique shape. It's thought that the smaller galaxy passed through the center of the larger.
December 16, 2024 at 1:55 AM
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The WITCH HEAD NEBULA
December 15, 2024 at 12:03 PM
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Red Sprites and Andromeda over Missouri lining up perfectly with a lone tree.
Chaos in our atmosphere paired with cosmic chaos.
Nature is awesome.
Single image
December 15, 2024 at 5:40 PM
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The young star cluster NGC 602.

Credit JWST
December 9, 2024 at 11:22 AM
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this is probably one of my favorite hubble images of all time 🌌
Three bright stars with diffraction spikes shine near the center-right of the image, illuminating nearby clouds that glow in pale blue. The clouds darken at the edges of the image, and are dotted with smaller stars, some also with diffraction spikes. image credit: NASA, ESA, G. Duchene (Universite de Grenoble I); image processing: Gladys Kober (NASA/Catholic University of America)
December 10, 2024 at 2:57 AM
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Spaghetti Nebula - Supernova Remnant
Image Credit & Copyright: David Lindemann https://www.astrobin.com/users/dlindemann/
December 10, 2024 at 12:55 AM
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jwst’s recent images 🌌
A spiral galaxy with a wide, oval-shaped disc. It has a shining spot at the centre from which two curving, pale red spiral arms emerge, wrapping once each around the galaxy. They’re surrounded by a whirl of bright threads and patches of dust, with spots of star formation scattered throughout. The glow of the disc fades smoothly into the background where some patches of dust can be seen, as well as foreground stars. Image of a galaxy on the black background of space. The galaxy is a very oblong, blue disk that extends from left to right at an angle (from about 10 o’clock to 5 o’clock). The galaxy has a small bright core at the center. There is an inner disk that is clearer, with speckles of stars scattered throughout. The outer disk of the galaxy is whiteish-blue, and clumpy, like clouds in the sky. There are different colored dots, distant galaxies, speckled among the black background of space surrounding the galaxy. Two spiral galaxies take the shape of a colorful beaded mask that sits above the nose. The galaxy at left, IC 2163, is smaller, taking up a little over a quarter of the view. The galaxy at right, NGC 2207, takes up half the view, with its spiral arms reaching the edges. IC 2163 has a bright orange core, with two prominent spiral arms that rotate counter clockwise and become straighter towards the ends, the left side extending almost to the edge. Its arms are a mix of pink, white, and blue, with an area that takes the shape of an eyelid appearing whitest. NGC 2207 has a very bright core. Overall, it appears to have larger, thicker spiral arms that spin counter clockwise. This galaxy also contains more and larger blue areas of star formation that poke out like holes from the pink spiral arms. In the middle, the galaxies’ arms appear to overlap. The edges show the black of space, including extremely distant galaxies that look like orange and red smudges, and a few foreground stars. A large spiral galaxy takes up the entirety of the image. The core is mostly bright white, but there are also swirling, detailed structures that resemble water circling a drain. There is small white and pale blue light that emanates from stars and dust at the core’s center, but it is tightly limited to the core. The rings feature colors of deep red and orange and highlight filaments of dust around cavernous black bubbles.
December 8, 2024 at 1:30 AM
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The young star cluster NGC 602, by #JWST
December 8, 2024 at 4:41 PM
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Meteor Shower and Orion in Mongolia 🇲🇳
Credit: Yin Hao
December 7, 2024 at 11:12 PM
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Here's few more photons that I found in my driveway photon trap!

The Seagull Nebula in on the border of constellations Monoceros and Canis Major.

🔭🧪 #astrophotography
A space nebula in a rainbow color palette. It looks a little bit like a seagull flapping its wings.
December 8, 2024 at 9:40 PM
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Meteor Shower and Orion in Mongolia 🇲🇳

📸 yin hao
December 8, 2024 at 1:31 PM
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HUBBLE TOOK THE CLOSEST LOOK AT THE FIRST KNOWN QUASAR!!
A two-panel image of quasar 3C 273, taken by different Hubble science instruments. The top panel is a Hubble Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2) image of quasar 3C 273. It looks like a bright white car headlight. There is a linear orange-white smoke-like feature stretching to the 4 o’clock position, an extragalactic jet launched from the quasar in the center of the black hole of an unseen galaxy. The bottom panel is a Hubble Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS) coronagraph image of quasar 3C 273. It looks the same as the WFPC2 image, but in shades of blue are of the quasar. Blue-colored filamentary material can be seen near the black hole. The extragalactic jet is still visible.
December 5, 2024 at 8:28 PM
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Black Hole
December 6, 2024 at 1:33 AM
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Clearest view to date of Uranus' rings.
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The planet Uranus on a black background. The planet appears blue with a large, white patch taking up the right half. The patch is whitest at the centre, then fades into blue as it expands from right to left. A thin outline of Uranus is also white. Around the planet is a system of nested rings. The outermost ring is the brightest while the innermost ring is the faintest. Unlike Saturn’s horizontal rings, the rings of Uranus are vertical and so they appear to surround the planet in an oval shape. There are 9 blueish white dots scattered around the rings.
December 4, 2024 at 8:53 PM
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Clearest image ever taken of Heart Nebula, located 7500 light years away from us
December 5, 2024 at 12:34 PM
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Taken Under the "Wing" of the Small Magellanic Cloud
The Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) is one of the Milky Way's closest galactic neighbors. Even though it is a small or so-called dwarf galaxy, the SMC is so bright that it is visible to the unaided eye from the Southern Hemisphere and near the equator. Many navigators, including Ferdinand Magellan who lends his name to the SMC, used it to help find their way across the oceans. Modern astronomers are also interested in studying the SMC (and its cousin, the Large Magellanic Cloud), but for very different reasons. Because the SMC is so close and bright, it offers an opportunity to study phenomena that are difficult to examine in more distant galaxies. Credits NASA, ESA, CXC and the University of Potsdam, JPL-Caltech, and STScI
December 5, 2024 at 3:37 PM
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Raw photos of Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn that I've taken over the years.

📷: Orion XT8 Plus telescope & ZWO ASI120MC imaging camera
December 5, 2024 at 7:33 PM
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Crab nebula.
A star that violently exploded ~970 years ago and left a neutron star in its center.
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An oval nebula with a complex structure against a black background. On the oval's exterior lie curtains of glowing red and orange fluffy material. Interior to this outer shell lie large-scale loops of mottled filaments of yellow-white and green, studded with clumps and knots. Translucent thin ribbons of smoky white lie within the remnant’s interior, brightest toward its centre.
December 5, 2024 at 8:25 PM
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There has to be life on one of these dots....
December 4, 2024 at 2:10 AM
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NGC 6302: The "Butterfly Nebula"
Credit:NASA
Hubble was recently retrained on NGC 6302, known as the "Butterfly Nebula," to observe it across a more complete spectrum of light, from near-ultraviolet to near-infrared, helping researchers better understand the mechanics at work in its technicolor "wings" of gas. The observations highlight a new pattern of near-infrared emission from singly ionized iron, which traces an S shape from lower left to upper right. This iron emission likely traces the central star system’s most recent ejections of gas, which are moving at much faster speeds than the previously expelled mass. The star or stars at its center are responsible for the nebula's appearance. In their death throes, they have cast off layers of gas periodically over the past couple thousand years. The "wings" of NGC 6302 are regions of gas heated to more than 36,000 degrees Fahrenheit that are tearing across space at more than 600,000 miles an hour. NGC 6302 lies between 2,500 and 3,800 light-years away in the constellation Scorpius.
December 3, 2024 at 9:15 PM
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The moon is back as a tiny sliver in a lavender sky

#SkySky 🌿
A very skinny curve of moon in a lavender sky with blurry bare trees silhouetted on either side in the foreground
December 3, 2024 at 10:47 PM
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Image of a star that exploded 320 years ago: Cassiopeia A (Infrared + X ray).
This image was presented on AAS Nova today as JWST revealed new features in it.
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This image of the famous supernova remnant Cassiopeia A combines X-ray, optical, and infrared observations. The new infrared data from JWST revealed fascinating structures. [X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO; Optical: NASA/ESA/STScl; IR: NASA/ESA/CSA/STScl/Milisavljevic et al., NASA/JPL/CalTech; Image Processing: NASA/CXC/SAO/J. Schmidt and K. Arcand]
December 3, 2024 at 7:07 PM