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Nereide

@drnereide.bsky.social

1/4 🔭 🧪 🧵

Here is NGC 2359, an emission nebula also known as Thor's Helmet because it is helmet-shaped with wing-like appendages.

Image source: apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap20061...

This version is a stunning image obtained by Martin Pugh with data from broadband and narrowband filters using⤵️

The image features NGC 2359, an emission nebula also known as Thor's Helmet because it is helmet-shaped with wing-like appendages. A bluish tint prevails due to a strong emission from doubly ionized oxygen atoms in the glowing gas.

December 25, 2024 at 11:39 PM

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Jasmine 🌌🔭

@astrojaz.bsky.social

the core of the omega nebula 🌌

image credit: eso

It shows the dusty pink central parts of this well-known stellar cradle, revealing extraordinary details in this cosmic landscape of clouds of gas, dust and newborn stars.

The colorful gas and darkened dust of the Omega Nebula are the raw materials for the creation of the next generation of stars. In this particular area of the nebula, the newest stars on the scene—dazzlingly bright and shimmering bluish-white—illuminate the entire ensemble. The nebula's smoky-looking dust ribbons are silhouetted against a background of incandescent gas. The dominant reddish colors, which spread over this part in the form of a cloud, arise from hydrogen in the form of gas, which shines under the influence of the intense rays of ultraviolet light emanating from the hot young stars.

December 26, 2024 at 2:22 AM

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Science Explorist

@scipexplorist.bsky.social

Do you think you're sitting still right now?

- You're on a planet that orbitis a star at 30km/s

- That star is orbiting the center of a galaxy at 230km/s

- That galaxy is moving trough the universe at 600km/s.

Since you started reading this, you have traveled about 3000km.

December 25, 2024 at 3:27 PM

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Terminally Online Leftist 🥂

@terminallyol.bsky.social

December 23, 2024 at 2:49 PM

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Matthew Todd

@matthewtodd.bsky.social

The devastation on its way is unimaginable - like nothing humanity has ever witnessed before - and everyone will wish they had been climate activists and ‘hysterics’ when they had the chance. We are in a moment of unprecedented stupidity

December 22, 2024 at 1:41 PM

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Jwst Feed

@jwstfeed.bsky.social

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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This image of the Ring Nebula appears as a distorted doughnut. The nebula’s inner cavity hosts shades of blue and green, while the detailed ring transitions through shades of orange in the inner regions and pink in the outer region. The ring’s inner region has distinct filament elements.

December 22, 2024 at 6:27 PM

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galaxylover.bsky.social

@galaxylover.bsky.social

Full detailed image of a star factory.
Rho Ophiuchi cloud complex is the closest star-forming region to Earth, and producing several sun-like stars each year.
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December 21, 2024 at 6:29 AM

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Cathrin Machin Space Art

@cathrinmachin.bsky.social

This is my oil painting of the gods eye nebula 🥹

December 21, 2024 at 2:47 AM

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My Second Chance

@mysecondchance.bsky.social

Firefox (Fire Fox)
One of the RAREST animals on the planet! 📸❤️‍🔥

December 21, 2024 at 8:56 AM

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Jwst Feed

@jwstfeed.bsky.social

Full detailed image of a star factory.
Rho Ophiuchi cloud complex is the closest star-forming region to Earth, and producing several sun-like stars each year.
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$Red dual opposing jets coming from young stars fill the darker top half of the image, while a glowing pale-yellow, cave-like structure is bottom centre, tilted toward two o’clock, with a bright star at its centre. The dust of the cave structure becomes wispy toward eight o’clock. Above the arched top of the dust cave three groupings of stars with diffraction spikes are arranged. A dark cloud sits at the top of the arch of the glowing dust cave, with one streamer curling down the right-hand side. The dark shadow of the cloud appears pinched in the centre, with light emerging in a triangle shape above and below the pinch, revealing the presence of a star inside the dark cloud. The image’s largest jets of red material emanate from within this dark cloud, thick and displaying structure like the rough face of a cliff, glowing brighter at the edges. At the top centre of the image, a star displays another, larger pinched dark shadow, this time vertically.$

December 20, 2024 at 8:09 PM

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Jasmine 🌌🔭

@astrojaz.bsky.social

“we are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.”
- carl sagan

Butterfly Nebula. Two enormous, knotted lobes of pink, red, and white gas and dust extend out from a central point and diagonally to the top right and lower left. The lobes resemble the wings of a butterfly, and they glow against black space dotted with more distant stars and galaxies.

image credit: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble SM4 ERO Team

December 21, 2024 at 1:18 AM

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Charlotte Strawbridge

@cstrawbridgeart.bsky.social

Fox closed her eyes, felt the cold on her face
She smiled at the darkness, lost in winter's brace

Solstice had come, the promise of more light
Nature's cycle was done by end of this night

She wished all souls love with the return of the sun
and #SolsticeBlessings for everyone

‘Winter’s Brace’, Fox sits huddled in the snow. Oil Painting

December 21, 2024 at 9:49 AM

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Chris Hayes

@chrislhayes.bsky.social

It's the time of the year when "Do They Know it's Christmas?" randomly pops up on the spotify holiday playlist and I'm shocked *once again* at how utterly tone deaf and condescending it is. I know I'm not breaking any new ground but MY GOD.

December 20, 2024 at 8:21 PM