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4aamari.bsky.social
from estuary dawn
the voluminous grey-blue curtain of sky and water opens to share the brightest horizon gold while a faint line of distant geese in flight floats over a sweet line of friends resting in calm waters crossed by yet another angled line of lines placed by carefully tending sanctuary hands
December 3, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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biometlab.bsky.social
Wonderful night to watch stars. There are these new gadgets, Seestar astrophoto systems, that give amateurs a power tool to study the heavens.
November 30, 2025 at 4:31 AM
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hourlycosmos.bsky.social
Close-up with the Rosette Nebula (RGB Colour) - From Rolf Wahl Olsen - https://flic.kr/p/UYaQwE
Visible here is a small portion of the large Rosette Nebula (NGC 2237), centered on its central cluster of stars; NGC 2244. This large round nebula lies some 5000 light years away and can be found in the constellation Monoceros near Orion. In optical wide field images the entire nebula appears strikingly similar to the petals of a red rose, hence the name. The image is constructed from exposures in three very narrow (3nm) wavelength bands corresponding to the emission profiles of ionised Hydrogen, Oxygen and Sulphur to form the resulting detailed and brightly coloured scene. The combined images in each filter were assigned to their natural colour channels using a PixelMath expression in PixInsight. This enables a synthetic 'natural' colour image to be created from the narrowband data. Several striking shapes can be seen here, many of which resemble animals of various kinds. In particular the figure of a leaping Cheetah is very obvious near the centre. These dark shapes are denser clouds of dust and gas, slowly being eroded away by the intense ultraviolet radiation from the young stars in the central cluster. These stars have themselves condensed out of the nebula relatively recently. The brightest cluster members, HD 46223 and HD 46150, are massive O-type stars with stellar winds and radiation powerful enough to have cleared the nebula's central cavity around the cluster. Image details: Date: 15th, 16th, 18th and 19th March 2017 Exposure: Ha OIII SII: 290:130:110 mins, t...
November 27, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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g0mfr.bsky.social
unrefinied galaxies on a clear night -... early part of a clear night
November 25, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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hourlycosmos.bsky.social
Firestorm Of Star Birth In The Active Galaxy Centaurus A - From Goddard Space Flight Center - https://flic.kr/p/9TMNa5
NASA image release June 16, 2011 Resembling looming rain clouds on a stormy day, dark lanes of dust crisscross the giant elliptical galaxy Centaurus A. Hubble's panchromatic vision, stretching from ultraviolet through near-infrared wavelengths, reveals the vibrant glow of young, blue star clusters and a glimpse into regions normally obscured by the dust. The warped shape of Centaurus A's disk of gas and dust is evidence for a past collision and merger with another galaxy. The resulting shockwaves cause hydrogen gas clouds to compress, triggering a firestorm of new star formation. These are visible in the red patches in this Hubble close-up. At a distance of just over 11 million light-years, Centaurus A contains the closest active galactic nucleus to Earth. The center is home for a supermassive black hole that ejects jets of high-speed gas into space, but neither the supermassive or the jets are visible in this image. This image was taken in July 2010 with Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3. The Hubble Space Telescope is a project of international cooperation between NASA and the European Space Agency. NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center manages the telescope. The Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) conducts Hubble science operations. STScI is operated for NASA by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Inc., in Washington, D.C. For images and more information about the findings, visit: www.nasa.gov/hubble and www.hubblesite.org/news/20...
November 24, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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Interstellar Origins: The Great Orion Nebula and The Running Man - From Rolf Wahl Olsen - https://flic.kr/p/UgDY8f
This image is centered on the dusty clouds between the Orion Nebula (Messier 42) and the Running Man Nebula (Sharpless 279) and is a mosaic of two images taken on separate nights in February 2017 To the right is the bright Orion Nebula, the closest stellar factory to us, located some 1350 light-years away in the constellation Orion. Here new stars are born out of the dense clouds of gas and dust, and the youngest and brightest stars that we see now are only between 10,000 and a few hundred thousand years old. The nebula is illuminated primarily by the four bright young stars visible in the centre, which form a small cluster called the Trapezium. The radiation pressure from these young stars have sculpted a vast cavity with brightly coloured glowing walls that we see from Earth as the familiar shape of the Orion Nebula. The nebula is also known as Messier 42 or NGC 1976 and is one of the brightest nebulae in the sky, easily visible just south of Orion's Belt using even the smallest binoculars. It is approximately 24 light years across and forms part of the much larger Orion Molecular Cloud Complex - a huge clump of very cold gas that has a total mass of about 2000 times that of the Sun. The gas from this cloud slowly collapses due to gravity and stars are formed. Whenever a bright new star is formed, its strong light evaporates the opaque gaseous surroundings it formed from, thus allowing us to see it. The Orion Molecular Cloud Complex extends far beyond the bounds of t...
November 21, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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AM 1914-603 (Color) - From Judy Schmidt (geckzilla.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/SDCbUj
Color added by using this ESO image under a CC BY 4.0 license. Please include ESO in the attribution if using this image, like so: NASA/ESA/ESO/Judy Schmidt Some processing notes: The cores of the galaxies were saturated in the ESO image, so I airbrushed over them with an approximate color. The stars were blurred/averaged and then shrunk down with a "minimum" filter so I could get just their color without the huge halo. I did some color balancing, as well. It's not ideal. It still looks pretty good, though. Establishing HST's Low Redshift Archive of Interacting Systems Luminosity: ACS/WFC F606W Red: Melipal/VIMOS V (550 nm) Green: Melipal/VIMOS B (425 nm) Blue: Melipal/VIMOS U (380 nm) North is 1.37° counter-clockwise from up.
November 19, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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Glare - From Gordan Ugarković (ugordan.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/hdKCPZ
Cassini WAC RGB view taken on 2012-05-02. Stray sunlight is entering the camera optics, causing the glare. Saturn's crescent was overexposed in the source images. Distance to Enceladus: 105 000 km Distance to Saturn: 341 000 km Enceladus phase angle: 160 deg
November 17, 2025 at 5:00 AM
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NGC 7023 - From Judy Schmidt (geckzilla.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/2jbPX9s
A close up view of a section of NGC 7023, also known as the Iris Nebula. Off the top frame, the star HD 200775 shines brightly, illuminating the nebula with blue light. This view includes near-infrared light, revealing the reddened light of stars attenuated by their dusty environment. Red and brown hues represent light shining through dust, while blue represents light reflecting from dust and gas. Data from the following proposal were used to create this image: The Exciting Wavelength of Extended Red Emission Red: ACS/WFC F850LP Green: ACS/WFC F625W Blue: ACS/WFC F475W North is 169.96° clockwise from up.
November 16, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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Jupiter 2023-10-14 - From Ryan Kinnett (rkinnett.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/2pkdWxk
30 minute loop. Imaged with Meade LX200 14" at f/20.
November 14, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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orneeymilli.bsky.social
...was von gestern:
Morgenrot über einem Feld, 2 kahle Bäume. Viel Kontrast.
November 14, 2025 at 5:47 AM
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planetariumbochum.bsky.social
Viel stärkeres Polarlicht über Bochum gerade gegen 4:30 MEZ - jetzt waren die rosa glühenden Felder auch für's bloße Auge sichtbar, sogar farbig! Und das trotz der Bochumer Lichtverschmutzung und eines abnehmenden Halbmonds hoch am Himmel. Aufnahmen freihändig ein paar Sekunden mit dem Handy.
November 12, 2025 at 4:18 AM
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stanseila.bsky.social
… Glücksmoment 💫…
Die Sonnenstrahlen die zwischen den Bäumen hindurch scheinen
November 6, 2025 at 5:17 AM
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hourlycosmos.bsky.social
NASA’s SDO Reveals How Magnetic Cage on the Sun Stopped Solar Eruption - From NASA Marshall Space Flight Center - https://flic.kr/p/24JsUbx
A dramatic magnetic power struggle at the Sun’s surface lies at the heart of solar eruptions, new research using NASA data shows. The work highlights the role of the Sun’s magnetic landscape, or topology, in the development of solar eruptions that can trigger space weather events around Earth. On Oct. 24, 2014, NASA’s SDO observed an X-class solar flare erupt from a Jupiter-sized sunspot group, shown here in this video. Image Credit: Tahar Amari et al./Center for Theoretical Physics/École Polytechnique/NASA Goddard/Joy Ng Read More NASA Media Usage Guidelines
November 4, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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nativecollective.bsky.social
Soaring through Iceland 😍 🕊️

Photo by: WithLuke
#NativeCollective #Photography #Community
August 29, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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nativecollective.bsky.social
Would you camp here? 🏕️😍

Photo by: Black Sail
#NativeCollective #Photography #Community
September 29, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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stanseila.bsky.social
Himmelsspektakel🍀☀️💫
Der heutige Abendhimmel, von hell zu dunkel.
November 2, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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4aamari.bsky.social
the hallowed seam
at the seam of days the silhouette trees and their mirrors form a seamless seam in which we’re held in fold of glow of sky of glow of water in hallowed and timeless time
October 31, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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The Heart of the Carina Nebula in H-alpha - From Ángel López-Sánchez - https://flic.kr/p/2iTpiUx
The center of the Carina Nebula, with the bright star Eta Carinae and the Keyhole feature, in H-alpha. Data taken from the backyard at home, ~15 km from Sydney's city centre, on Monday 19th and Tuesday 21st April 2020. Equipment: Skywatcher Black Diamond 80 (F=600mm, f/7.5), Skywatcher AZ-EQ6 (mount), ZWO ASI178MC (main camera), ZWO ASI120MM + Orion 50mm guidescope (guiding), 2" Baader ultra-narrow (3.5 nm) H-alpha filter, and ASIair controlling everything (using my son's iPad). This image combines 35 x 600s light frames, and 30 x 600s dark frames. Aligned and stacked with SiriL, stretching, colour contrast, saturation, levels, and luminosity with Photoshop.
October 31, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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Total Solar Eclipse • Aug. 21, 2017 - From Jason Major (jpmajor.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/XX3zaD
Fort Johnson Charleston, South Carolina
October 30, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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Hubble reveals the Ring Nebula’s true shape - From Goddard Space Flight Center - https://flic.kr/p/ep6k4M
Caption: In this composite image, visible-light observations by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope are combined with infrared data from the ground-based Large Binocular Telescope in Arizona to assemble a dramatic view of the well-known Ring Nebula. Credit: NASA, ESA, C.R. Robert O’Dell (Vanderbilt University), G.J. Ferland (University of Kentucky), W.J. Henney and M. Peimbert (National Autonomous University of Mexico) Credit for Large Binocular Telescope data: David Thompson (University of Arizona) ---- The Ring Nebula's distinctive shape makes it a popular illustration for astronomy books. But new observations by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope of the glowing gas shroud around an old, dying, sun-like star reveal a new twist. "The nebula is not like a bagel, but rather, it's like a jelly doughnut, because it's filled with material in the middle," said C. Robert O'Dell of Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn. He leads a research team that used Hubble and several ground-based telescopes to obtain the best view yet of the iconic nebula. The images show a more complex structure than astronomers once thought and have allowed them to construct the most precise 3-D model of the nebula. "With Hubble's detail, we see a completely different shape than what's been thought about historically for this classic nebula," O'Dell said. "The new Hubble observations show the nebula in much clearer detail, and we see things are not as simple as we previously though...
October 28, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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4aamari.bsky.social
light both particle and wave
energy of light burnishes the waving grasses gently clustered copper gold and shimmers across the low tide marsh full near and far with a mauve and sweeping layered sky
October 26, 2025 at 2:56 PM