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Clearest image of Pluto
October 31, 2025 at 1:42 AM
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It would look like our night sky if the Andromeda Galaxy were brighter...
September 24, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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7500 light-years away from us...
September 25, 2025 at 10:18 AM
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Powerful telescopes are key to discovering new phenomena and even life on other planets. This week, @bipisci.bsky.social is “Scoping Out the Universe” with @allplanets.bsky.social, where they discuss exoplanets and other recent discoveries. #podcast 🧪 🔭

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Composite photograph of the NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory at night with the plane of the Milky Way above, which is full of gas and dust and stars and nebulae.
August 9, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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New tools in Siril 1.4.2 Beta. A whole new learning curve and workflow…🙄
Reworking some old data to see what the new tools are capable of. So far they seem to be very powerful! M51, the Whirlpool Galaxy.✨🔭
#astrophotography #astronomy #space #galaxy #photography #siril
May 31, 2025 at 1:55 AM
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May 29, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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Sunset on Friday 18th December 1908. I have cleaned-up this astounding autochrome photograph of twilight 117 years ago, taken in colour by Julien Gérardin. It is an original colour plate, not colourised.
May 29, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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Ye Ole Pelican Nebula, in IC 5070. 110 three hundred second images, stacked and processed in Pixinsight. ZWOFF 80, ZWOASI553mc pro, AM5 mount. #astrophotography #astronomy
May 29, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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"Deep Sky Saturday!" Every Saturday expect a new deep sky image from my catalog.
SH2-119 the Flying Bat nebula in Cygnus
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a narrowband image of SH2-119 the Flying Bat nebula in Cygnus just to the west of the well known North American Nebula and Pelican Nebula this image showcasing the elements of Sulfur, Oxygen, and Hydrogen, mapped to specific colors using the well know Hubble color pallet of SHO
April 26, 2025 at 5:20 AM
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🐉 A Dragon's Egg 🪺 (NGC 6164)

imgCredit: Daniel Stern

#Astro #Astrostills #Astromeka #Astrordinary #Astropix #Astropixels #Astroshot #Astrophoto #Astronomy #Space #Universe #Stars #Galaxy #Nightsky

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NGC 6164: A Dragon's Egg (APOD: 2025 Apr 24) Image Credit & Copyright: Daniel Stern https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap250424.html Explanation: Beautiful emission nebula NGC 6164 was created by a rare, hot, luminous O-type star, some 40 times as massive as the Sun. Seen at the center of the cosmic cloud, the star is a mere 3 to 4 million years old. In another three to four million years the massive star will end its life in a supernova explosion. Spanning around 4 light-years, the nebula itself has a bipolar symmetry. That makes it similar in appearance to more common and familiar planetary nebulae - the gaseous shrouds surrounding dying sun-like stars. Also like many planetary nebulae, NGC 6164 has been found to have an extensive, faint halo, revealed in this deep image of the region. Expanding into the surrounding interstellar medium, the material in the halo is likely from an earlier active phase of the O star. This gorgeous telescopic view is a composite of extensive narrow-band image data, highlighting glowing atomic hydrogen gas in red and oxygen in greenish hues, with broadband data for the surrounding starfield. Also known as the Dragon's Egg nebula, NGC 6164 is 4,200 light-years away in the right-angled southern constellation of Norma. https://www.instagram.com/messierchaser/ Starship Asterisk* • APOD Discussion Page https://asterisk.apod.com/discuss_apod.php?date=250424 #APOD
April 26, 2025 at 6:14 AM
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ESA/Webb (@esa.int) images (Oct 4, 2024)

Explore Westerlund 1, a dense cluster of massive stars that serves as a natural laboratory for studying stellar evolution and the dynamics of star formation.

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A dense cluster of bright stars with diffraction spikes, surrounded by red gas and distant stars, representing the super star cluster Westerlund 1. Credit: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, M. Zamani (ESA/Webb), M. G. Guarcello (INAF-OAPA) and the EWOCS team
March 23, 2025 at 7:00 AM
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Lagoon Nebula (Visible-light View)
This colorful image, taken by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, celebrates the Earth-orbiting observatory’s 28th anniversary of viewing the heavens, giving us a window seat to the universe’s extraordinary tapestry of stellar birth and destruction. At the center of the photo, a monster young star 200,000 times brighter than our Sun is blasting powerful ultraviolet radiation and hurricane-like stellar winds, carving out a fantasy landscape of ridges, cavities, and mountains of gas and dust. This mayhem is all happening at the heart of the Lagoon Nebula, a vast stellar nursery located 4,000 light-years away and visible in binoculars simply as a smudge of light with a bright core. The giant star, called Herschel 36, is bursting out of its natal cocoon of material, unleashing blistering radiation and torrential stellar winds (streams of subatomic particles) that push dust away in curtain-like sheets. This action resembles the Sun bursting through the clouds at the end of an afternoon thunderstorm that showers sheets of rainfall. Herschel 36’s violent activity has blasted holes in the bubble-shaped cloud, allowing astronomers to study this action-packed stellar breeding ground. The hefty star is 32 times more massive and eight times hotter than our Sun. It is nearly nine times our Sun’s diameter. Herschel 36 is still very active because it is young by a star’s standards, only 1 million years old. Based on its mass, it will live for another 5 million years. In comparison, our smaller Sun is 5 billion years old and will live another 5 billion years. This region epitomizes a typical, raucous stellar nursery full of birth and destruction. The clouds may look majestic and peaceful, but they are in a constant state of flux from the star’s torrent of searing radiation and high-speed particles from stellar winds. As the monster star throws off its natal cocoon of material with its powerful energy, it is suppressing star formation around it. However, at the dark edges of this …
January 21, 2025 at 2:53 AM
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The Helix Nebula CREDIT| NASA
January 12, 2025 at 10:42 AM
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The Whirlpool Galaxy, also known as Messier 51a, M51a, or NGC 5194, is an interacting grand-design spiral galaxy. In the Catalogue of Named Galaxies, it is called Typhon Canum Venaticorum, after the Greek god Typhon.

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January 7, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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Hubble Refines Distance to the Pleiades Star Cluster
Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have helped settle a mystery that has puzzled scientists concerning the exact distance to the famous nearby star cluster known as the Pleiades, or the Seven Sisters. The Pleiades cluster, named by the ancient Greeks, is easily seen as a small grouping of stars lying near the shoulder of Taurus, the Bull, in the winter sky. Although it might be expected that the distance to this well-studied cluster would be well established, there has been an ongoing controversy among astronomers about its distance for the past seven years.
December 28, 2024 at 9:50 PM
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The first anniversary image from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope - Rho Ophiuchi cloud complex
December 28, 2024 at 4:25 PM
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The Ghost Nebula Credit - NASA
December 27, 2024 at 1:42 PM
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The clearest photo of Mercury - credit NASA
The clearest photo of Mercury - credit NASA
December 26, 2024 at 3:08 PM
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The Phantom Galaxy with its stunning, well-defined structure. The central core glows a bright blue, surrounded by sprawling, delicate spiral arms.
Image Description: This image showcases the spiral galaxy M74 (The Phantom Galaxy) with its stunning, well-defined structure. The central core glows a bright blue, surrounded by sprawling, delicate spiral arms. These arms are filled with intricate webs of gas and dust, which are highlighted in shades of dark brown and gray. Numerous bright pink and red regions are scattered throughout the spiral arms, indicating areas of active star formation. The overall appearance of the galaxy looks detailed and ethereal, as it appears against the deep, dark backdrop of space. Credit: NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope and the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope.
December 27, 2024 at 2:21 AM
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Heart and Soul Nebulae
NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) mission captured this mosaic of the Heart and Soul nebulae. Located about 6,000 light-years from Earth, the nebulae form a vast star-forming complex that makes up part of the Perseus spiral arm of our Milky Way galaxy. The nebula to the right is the Heart, named after its resemblance to a human heart. To the left is the Soul nebula, also known as the Embryo nebula. WISE's infrared vision allows it to see into the cooler and dustier crevices of clouds like these, where gas and dust are just beginning to collect into new stars. These stars are less than a few million of years old – youngsters in comparison to our Sun, which is nearly 5 billion years old. Also visible near the bottom of this image are two galaxies, Maffei 1 and Maffei 2. Both galaxies contain billions of stars and, at about 10 million light-years away, are well outside our Milky Way yet relatively close compared to most galaxies. Maffei 1 is the bluish elliptical object and Maffei 2 is the spiral galaxy. Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA
December 26, 2024 at 12:23 AM
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NGC 1015 is a barred spiral galaxy, at a distance of 118 million light years in the constellation of Cetus (The Whale).
December 26, 2024 at 1:45 AM
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NASA’s Juno Gets a Close Look at Jupiter’s Volcanic Moon Io on Dec. 30, 2023
December 24, 2024 at 2:34 AM
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Eye in the sky.
You're looking at the Ring Nebula, the remnant of a star that had the mass of 3 suns and exploded ~4,000 years ago.
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December 23, 2024 at 7:18 AM
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We are pursuing the wrong applications for AI.
December 22, 2024 at 2:36 PM
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Trillion star galaxy...

The Great Andromeda Galaxy 🌌
December 20, 2024 at 1:52 AM