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January 25, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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January 25, 2025 at 12:11 AM
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The Christmas Tree in Space...
December 23, 2024 at 4:35 PM
ur-vampire-lover.bsky.social
something something art mimics life
a painting of a black cat on a green background, with an odd expression, sits on a black table with a white wall behind it. a black cat with an odd expression sits on a black table. there is a book, a pill container, and a chair in the background.
December 19, 2024 at 11:08 PM
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Super rare magenta aurora in the sky over Finland ✨
December 19, 2024 at 12:36 PM
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I do astronomy for a living, and images like this *still* take my breath away. What a beautiful universe we live in. Even in the midst of trouble, grief, & anything you might be struggling with (like we all are) - try to seek out the beauty. It helps ❤️
December 14, 2024 at 9:52 AM
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Colliding galaxies IC 2163 and NGC 2207 (MIRI image).
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Two spiral galaxies take up almost the entire view and appear to be overlapping. They are angled from top left to bottom right. The galaxy at left, IC 2163, is smaller and more compact than the galaxy at right, NGC 2207. The background of space is black, dotted with tiny foreground stars and extremely distant galaxies.
December 13, 2024 at 10:58 PM
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A jellyfish galaxy adrift
Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA
A spiral galaxy. It is large in the centre with a lot of detail visible. The core glows brightly and is surrounded by concentric rings of dark and light dust. The spiral arms are thick and puffy with grey dust and glowing blue areas of star formation. They wrap around the galaxy to form a ring. Part of the arm is drawn out into a dark thread above the galaxy, and dust from the arm trails off to the right.
December 11, 2024 at 12:38 AM
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Comet C2022 E3 (ZTF), is a non-periodic comet from the Oort cloud that was discovered by the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) on 2 March 2022.

Shot in 2023 from my backyard.

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📷 ZWO 1600 MC
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#Astrophotography #DeepSpace #Comet #Astronomy
Comet C2022 E3 (ZTF), is a non-periodic comet from the Oort cloud that was discovered by the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) on 2 March 2022. Shot in 2023 from my backyard. 🔭 Explore Scientific ED102 📷 ZWO 1600 MC 🕐 50 minutes of exposure #Astrophotography #DeepSpace #Comet #Astronomy
December 12, 2024 at 2:03 AM
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Clean image of galaxy cluster MACS J1423, where the Firefly Sparkle galaxy is located.
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Thousands of overlapping objects at various distances are spread across this field, including galaxies in a massive galaxy cluster, and distorted background galaxies behind the galaxy cluster. The background of space is black.
December 11, 2024 at 6:25 PM
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Cone Nebula (NGC 2264) by nasa
Resembling a nightmarish beast rearing its head from a crimson sea, this monstrous object is actually an innocuous pillar of gas and dust. Called the Cone Nebula (NGC 2264) - so named because, in ground-based images, it has a conical shape - this giant pillar resides in a turbulent star-forming region. This picture, taken by the newly installed Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) aboard NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, shows the upper 2.5 light-years of the nebula, a height that equals 23 million roundtrips to the Moon. The entire nebula is 7 light-years long. The Cone Nebula resides 2,500 light-years away in the constellation Monoceros. Radiation from hot, young stars [located beyond the top of the image] has slowly eroded the nebula over millions of years. Ultraviolet light heats the edges of the dark cloud, releasing gas into the relatively empty region of surrounding space. There, additional ultraviolet radiation causes the hydrogen gas to glow, which produces the red halo of light seen around the pillar. A similar process occurs on a much smaller scale to gas surrounding a single star, forming the bow-shaped arc seen near the upper left side of the Cone. This arc, seen previously with the Hubble telescope, is 65 times larger than the diameter of our solar system. The blue-white light from surrounding stars is reflected by dust. Background stars can be seen peeking through the evaporating tendrils of gas, while the turbulent base is pockmarked with stars reddened by dust. Over time, only the densest regions of the Cone will be left. Inside these regions, stars and planets may form. The Cone Nebula is a cousin of the M16 pillars, which the Hubble telescope imaged in 1995. Monstrous pillars of cold gas, like the Cone and M16, are common in large regions of star birth. Astronomers believe that these pillars are incubators for developing stars. Credits NASA, H. Ford (JHU), G. Illingworth (UCSC/LO), M.Clampin (STScI), G. Hartig (STScI), the ACS Science Team,
December 10, 2024 at 2:44 PM