Andrea Luck
@andrealuck.bsky.social
🛰️🪐 Space voyager processing space images 📡💻
🎞️ HD Photostream: https://www.flickr.com/photos/192271236@N03/
🎋Other places: https://linktr.ee/andrealuck
🌍Glasgow, Scotland 🌱 (He/Him)
🎞️ HD Photostream: https://www.flickr.com/photos/192271236@N03/
🎋Other places: https://linktr.ee/andrealuck
🌍Glasgow, Scotland 🌱 (He/Him)
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Andrea Luck
@andrealuck.bsky.social
· Oct 26
Fresh JWST view of Uranus taken Oct 6 2025 with NIRCam.
Full size & more info: flic.kr/p/2rByidu 🔭🧪
Credit: NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI/Andrea Luck CC BY
Proposal PI: Varun Bajaj
Proposal ID: 8975
Filters: F150W2-F162M, F410M
Full size & more info: flic.kr/p/2rByidu 🔭🧪
Credit: NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI/Andrea Luck CC BY
Proposal PI: Varun Bajaj
Proposal ID: 8975
Filters: F150W2-F162M, F410M
Reposted by Andrea Luck
Uranus with its rings on January 23, 1986, as Voyager 2 approached, looking down on the planet's south pole.
January 3, 2026 at 2:39 PM
Uranus with its rings on January 23, 1986, as Voyager 2 approached, looking down on the planet's south pole.
Reposted by Andrea Luck
Two #supernovae (green markers) from the #Hubble program 16691 archive.stsci.edu/proposal_sea... 🔭
Left: SN 2021vaz (type II) in the galaxy NGC 1961
Right: SN 2021rhu (type Ia) in the galaxy NGC 7814
Left: SN 2021vaz (type II) in the galaxy NGC 1961
Right: SN 2021rhu (type Ia) in the galaxy NGC 7814
January 2, 2026 at 12:19 PM
Two #supernovae (green markers) from the #Hubble program 16691 archive.stsci.edu/proposal_sea... 🔭
Left: SN 2021vaz (type II) in the galaxy NGC 1961
Right: SN 2021rhu (type Ia) in the galaxy NGC 7814
Left: SN 2021vaz (type II) in the galaxy NGC 1961
Right: SN 2021rhu (type Ia) in the galaxy NGC 7814
Reposted by Andrea Luck
James #Webb Space Telescope #JWST
A JWST Survey of Nearby Highly Inclined Starburst and Active Disk Galaxies
TARG: #NGC 5775
2025-07-01
PI: Veilleux, Sylvain
MIRI 1800 1500 1130 770 560 + NIRCAM 335 182
yuval-harpaz.github.io/astro/jwst_l...
NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI/j. Roger
A JWST Survey of Nearby Highly Inclined Starburst and Active Disk Galaxies
TARG: #NGC 5775
2025-07-01
PI: Veilleux, Sylvain
MIRI 1800 1500 1130 770 560 + NIRCAM 335 182
yuval-harpaz.github.io/astro/jwst_l...
NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI/j. Roger
January 2, 2026 at 2:42 PM
James #Webb Space Telescope #JWST
A JWST Survey of Nearby Highly Inclined Starburst and Active Disk Galaxies
TARG: #NGC 5775
2025-07-01
PI: Veilleux, Sylvain
MIRI 1800 1500 1130 770 560 + NIRCAM 335 182
yuval-harpaz.github.io/astro/jwst_l...
NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI/j. Roger
A JWST Survey of Nearby Highly Inclined Starburst and Active Disk Galaxies
TARG: #NGC 5775
2025-07-01
PI: Veilleux, Sylvain
MIRI 1800 1500 1130 770 560 + NIRCAM 335 182
yuval-harpaz.github.io/astro/jwst_l...
NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI/j. Roger
Reposted by Andrea Luck
🔭 JWST Program 5627 - Dust and Molecular Gas in Galactic Winds and Fountains: A JWST Survey of Nearby Highly Inclined Starburst and Active Disk Galaxies: www.stsci.edu/jwst-program...
target: NGC-5775-IMAGER, released 2026-01-02
NASA, ESA, CSA,STSci/ #JWST NIRCam 335, 187
target: NGC-5775-IMAGER, released 2026-01-02
NASA, ESA, CSA,STSci/ #JWST NIRCam 335, 187
January 3, 2026 at 12:46 AM
🔭 JWST Program 5627 - Dust and Molecular Gas in Galactic Winds and Fountains: A JWST Survey of Nearby Highly Inclined Starburst and Active Disk Galaxies: www.stsci.edu/jwst-program...
target: NGC-5775-IMAGER, released 2026-01-02
NASA, ESA, CSA,STSci/ #JWST NIRCam 335, 187
target: NGC-5775-IMAGER, released 2026-01-02
NASA, ESA, CSA,STSci/ #JWST NIRCam 335, 187
Reposted by Andrea Luck
Last night I set up my telescope so we could all watch the planets while waiting for the new year to arrive.
After the fireworks had subsided, I attached my camera and captured my first astrophoto of the year featuring Jupiter and its moon Europa. #astrophotography
Happy New Year everyone!
After the fireworks had subsided, I attached my camera and captured my first astrophoto of the year featuring Jupiter and its moon Europa. #astrophotography
Happy New Year everyone!
January 1, 2026 at 8:35 PM
Last night I set up my telescope so we could all watch the planets while waiting for the new year to arrive.
After the fireworks had subsided, I attached my camera and captured my first astrophoto of the year featuring Jupiter and its moon Europa. #astrophotography
Happy New Year everyone!
After the fireworks had subsided, I attached my camera and captured my first astrophoto of the year featuring Jupiter and its moon Europa. #astrophotography
Happy New Year everyone!
Reposted by Andrea Luck
The order of the frames was reversed, now it's correct
#JWST
Resolving the Dynamic ISM with IR Echoes around Cas A
#ECHOW1-NIRCAM
2024-09-16 2024-08-19 2024-09-30 2024-12-30
Jencson, Jacob
NIRCAM 6x 444 360 335
yuval-harpaz.github.io/astro/jwst_l...
NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI/j. Roger
#JWST
Resolving the Dynamic ISM with IR Echoes around Cas A
#ECHOW1-NIRCAM
2024-09-16 2024-08-19 2024-09-30 2024-12-30
Jencson, Jacob
NIRCAM 6x 444 360 335
yuval-harpaz.github.io/astro/jwst_l...
NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI/j. Roger
January 1, 2026 at 6:58 PM
The order of the frames was reversed, now it's correct
#JWST
Resolving the Dynamic ISM with IR Echoes around Cas A
#ECHOW1-NIRCAM
2024-09-16 2024-08-19 2024-09-30 2024-12-30
Jencson, Jacob
NIRCAM 6x 444 360 335
yuval-harpaz.github.io/astro/jwst_l...
NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI/j. Roger
#JWST
Resolving the Dynamic ISM with IR Echoes around Cas A
#ECHOW1-NIRCAM
2024-09-16 2024-08-19 2024-09-30 2024-12-30
Jencson, Jacob
NIRCAM 6x 444 360 335
yuval-harpaz.github.io/astro/jwst_l...
NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI/j. Roger
Reposted by Andrea Luck
Triton, moon of Neptune, seen in front of Neptune from the receding Voyager 2 in 1989.
December 31, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Triton, moon of Neptune, seen in front of Neptune from the receding Voyager 2 in 1989.
Reposted by Andrea Luck
This paper by Vasilyak and Shubralova makes an interesting observation that ELVES #TLE seem to be more likely to occur near tectonic plate boundaries.
However, with just 37 events, I'm skeptical of the statistical significance of their results which isn't addressed in the paper at all. 🧪🧵
However, with just 37 events, I'm skeptical of the statistical significance of their results which isn't addressed in the paper at all. 🧪🧵
We call the very upper-atmospheric lightnings elves and sprites (which is itself great), and these events don't appear everywhere. The analysis in this study argues that elves are mostly occur along the tectonic plates' boundaries, which is slightly crazy. 🧪⚒️
Link: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Link: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
December 31, 2025 at 3:14 PM
This paper by Vasilyak and Shubralova makes an interesting observation that ELVES #TLE seem to be more likely to occur near tectonic plate boundaries.
However, with just 37 events, I'm skeptical of the statistical significance of their results which isn't addressed in the paper at all. 🧪🧵
However, with just 37 events, I'm skeptical of the statistical significance of their results which isn't addressed in the paper at all. 🧪🧵
Reposted by Andrea Luck
Update for January
December 31, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Update for January
Reposted by Andrea Luck
New frame for the Cassiopeia A #supernova light echo.
#JWST NIRCam images with filter F444W from August to December 2024. Last two frames have quite the gap of two months.
program: www.stsci.edu/jwst-program...
#JWST NIRCam images with filter F444W from August to December 2024. Last two frames have quite the gap of two months.
program: www.stsci.edu/jwst-program...
December 31, 2025 at 4:46 AM
New frame for the Cassiopeia A #supernova light echo.
#JWST NIRCam images with filter F444W from August to December 2024. Last two frames have quite the gap of two months.
program: www.stsci.edu/jwst-program...
#JWST NIRCam images with filter F444W from August to December 2024. Last two frames have quite the gap of two months.
program: www.stsci.edu/jwst-program...
Reposted by Andrea Luck
My new science fiction / space non-fiction reads for the year
December 29, 2025 at 7:19 PM
My new science fiction / space non-fiction reads for the year
Reposted by Andrea Luck
I picked a favorite of my renders from each month:
Jan: Gemini Rescue concept (historical)
Feb: Orion (stylized)
March: MPD cargo spacecraft (NASA concept)
April: Tongren joint circumlunar station (personal concept)
Jan: Gemini Rescue concept (historical)
Feb: Orion (stylized)
March: MPD cargo spacecraft (NASA concept)
April: Tongren joint circumlunar station (personal concept)
December 30, 2025 at 5:42 PM
I picked a favorite of my renders from each month:
Jan: Gemini Rescue concept (historical)
Feb: Orion (stylized)
March: MPD cargo spacecraft (NASA concept)
April: Tongren joint circumlunar station (personal concept)
Jan: Gemini Rescue concept (historical)
Feb: Orion (stylized)
March: MPD cargo spacecraft (NASA concept)
April: Tongren joint circumlunar station (personal concept)
Reposted by Andrea Luck
Great Dark Spot - From Aster Cowart (terrasabaea.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/Li3ibq
December 30, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Great Dark Spot - From Aster Cowart (terrasabaea.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/Li3ibq
Reposted by Andrea Luck
1/2🧵🟠🟣⚪ "In every object, its previous forms must live on in some rudimentary way", part II - #1, digital #collage
model: Dione @dionek.bsky.social
The entire project is on my website: tinyurl.com/2vk83fuw
Credit : #NASA / #SwRI / #MSSS / Jackie Branc © CC BY
#Jupiter #Io #Juno
model: Dione @dionek.bsky.social
The entire project is on my website: tinyurl.com/2vk83fuw
Credit : #NASA / #SwRI / #MSSS / Jackie Branc © CC BY
#Jupiter #Io #Juno
December 30, 2025 at 7:09 PM
1/2🧵🟠🟣⚪ "In every object, its previous forms must live on in some rudimentary way", part II - #1, digital #collage
model: Dione @dionek.bsky.social
The entire project is on my website: tinyurl.com/2vk83fuw
Credit : #NASA / #SwRI / #MSSS / Jackie Branc © CC BY
#Jupiter #Io #Juno
model: Dione @dionek.bsky.social
The entire project is on my website: tinyurl.com/2vk83fuw
Credit : #NASA / #SwRI / #MSSS / Jackie Branc © CC BY
#Jupiter #Io #Juno
So Uranus won. Another reminder of what we’re missing by not sending probes that far into the outer solar system. Let’s go!
🔭🧪
🔭🧪
The winner of ✨ #planetaryScience image of 2025 ✨ is
✨Uranus as seen by JWST✨
Taken on: October 6, 2025
Credit: NASA/ @esa.int /CSA/ @stsci.edu / @andrealuck.bsky.social
Full resolution: www.flickr.com/photos/19227...
🧪⚛️
✨Uranus as seen by JWST✨
Taken on: October 6, 2025
Credit: NASA/ @esa.int /CSA/ @stsci.edu / @andrealuck.bsky.social
Full resolution: www.flickr.com/photos/19227...
🧪⚛️
December 30, 2025 at 7:00 PM
So Uranus won. Another reminder of what we’re missing by not sending probes that far into the outer solar system. Let’s go!
🔭🧪
🔭🧪
Reposted by Andrea Luck
If you are looking for some great accounts to follow, this starter pack of great image processors might be for you:
go.bsky.app/PUXRaYf
Also, come join us on the #planetaryScience feed by ❤️ing and 📌ing it: bsky.app/profile/did:...
go.bsky.app/PUXRaYf
Also, come join us on the #planetaryScience feed by ❤️ing and 📌ing it: bsky.app/profile/did:...
December 30, 2025 at 5:57 PM
If you are looking for some great accounts to follow, this starter pack of great image processors might be for you:
go.bsky.app/PUXRaYf
Also, come join us on the #planetaryScience feed by ❤️ing and 📌ing it: bsky.app/profile/did:...
go.bsky.app/PUXRaYf
Also, come join us on the #planetaryScience feed by ❤️ing and 📌ing it: bsky.app/profile/did:...
Reposted by Andrea Luck
Reprocess of Veil Nebula
Remnant of a supernova between 10,000 and 20,000 years ago, 2,400 light-years away
2 panel mosaic, 80min each, ASI2600MC, Esprit 100ED, Grantham UK, full size 16198x12135px
telescopius.com/pictures/vie...
#astrophotography #pixinsight
Remnant of a supernova between 10,000 and 20,000 years ago, 2,400 light-years away
2 panel mosaic, 80min each, ASI2600MC, Esprit 100ED, Grantham UK, full size 16198x12135px
telescopius.com/pictures/vie...
#astrophotography #pixinsight
September 13, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Reprocess of Veil Nebula
Remnant of a supernova between 10,000 and 20,000 years ago, 2,400 light-years away
2 panel mosaic, 80min each, ASI2600MC, Esprit 100ED, Grantham UK, full size 16198x12135px
telescopius.com/pictures/vie...
#astrophotography #pixinsight
Remnant of a supernova between 10,000 and 20,000 years ago, 2,400 light-years away
2 panel mosaic, 80min each, ASI2600MC, Esprit 100ED, Grantham UK, full size 16198x12135px
telescopius.com/pictures/vie...
#astrophotography #pixinsight
Reposted by Andrea Luck
James #Webb Space Telescope #JWST
Vast Exploration for Nascent, Unexplored Sources (VENUS)
TARGNAME: #MACSJ0553-3342
DATE-OBS: 2025-12-29
PI: Fujimoto, Seiji
NIRISS 356 277 200 150 115
yuval-harpaz.github.io/astro/jwst_l...
NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI/j. Roger
Vast Exploration for Nascent, Unexplored Sources (VENUS)
TARGNAME: #MACSJ0553-3342
DATE-OBS: 2025-12-29
PI: Fujimoto, Seiji
NIRISS 356 277 200 150 115
yuval-harpaz.github.io/astro/jwst_l...
NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI/j. Roger
December 30, 2025 at 2:42 PM
James #Webb Space Telescope #JWST
Vast Exploration for Nascent, Unexplored Sources (VENUS)
TARGNAME: #MACSJ0553-3342
DATE-OBS: 2025-12-29
PI: Fujimoto, Seiji
NIRISS 356 277 200 150 115
yuval-harpaz.github.io/astro/jwst_l...
NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI/j. Roger
Vast Exploration for Nascent, Unexplored Sources (VENUS)
TARGNAME: #MACSJ0553-3342
DATE-OBS: 2025-12-29
PI: Fujimoto, Seiji
NIRISS 356 277 200 150 115
yuval-harpaz.github.io/astro/jwst_l...
NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI/j. Roger
Reposted by Andrea Luck
Raung volcano in Indonesia.
Image taken by Sentinel-2 on Sep. 23, 2025.
Image taken by Sentinel-2 on Sep. 23, 2025.
December 30, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Raung volcano in Indonesia.
Image taken by Sentinel-2 on Sep. 23, 2025.
Image taken by Sentinel-2 on Sep. 23, 2025.
Reposted by Andrea Luck
Io as seen from Earth! - Large Binocular Telescope Observatory - From Andrea Luck (andrealuck.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/2pVYYA6
![The volcanic Jupiter's world Io showing off Pele, Loki and Pillan Patera.
Special thanks to the SHARK-VIS Team for sharing these data with me so that I could make my own processing! Meet them here sites.google.com/inaf.it/shark-vis/team
Download full size: www.flickr.com/photos/192271236@N03/53775789129/sizes/o/
See license below.
Credit
Processing: Andrea Luck CC BY
Image data: INAF/Large Binocular Telescope Observatory/Georgia State University; IRV-band observations by SHARK-VIS@LBT [P.I. F. Pedichini]
North is approx up
Time: January 9, 2024
Filters:
I 685-825 nm
R 552-687 nm
V 495-605 nm
Study and more info: agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2024GL108609
Credit
Processing: Andrea Luck CC BY
Image data: INAF/Large Binocular Telescope Observatory/Georgia State University; IRV-band observations by SHARK-VIS@LBT [P.I. F. Pedichini]
Feel free to share, giving the appropriate credit and providing a link to the original image or tweet: creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.en](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz5uoq2emhdgxcnndqq5our4/bafkreidenollg6xohlnbcm5jva74bkosdq7vhqun275kdi6d657ftgjxum@jpeg)
December 30, 2025 at 5:00 AM
Io as seen from Earth! - Large Binocular Telescope Observatory - From Andrea Luck (andrealuck.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/2pVYYA6
Reposted by Andrea Luck
IC342 Hidden Galaxy nella Giraffa, 100 minuti di esposizione con luna al primo quarto #SVBony SV503 102ED e @zwoastro.com.web.brid.gy ASI585MC Air 🔭 #astronomy #astrophotography @kat-astro-bot.bsky.social @siril.org @gimpofficial.bsky.social
December 30, 2025 at 12:14 PM
IC342 Hidden Galaxy nella Giraffa, 100 minuti di esposizione con luna al primo quarto #SVBony SV503 102ED e @zwoastro.com.web.brid.gy ASI585MC Air 🔭 #astronomy #astrophotography @kat-astro-bot.bsky.social @siril.org @gimpofficial.bsky.social
Reposted by Andrea Luck
#Galaxy cluster MACS J0553-3342 with #JWST NIRCam (F277W+F356W+F444W). program: www.stsci.edu/jwst-program... (VENUS)
Brightest star on the left is TYC 7062-1810-1, which is only 300 parsec away.
Brightest star on the left is TYC 7062-1810-1, which is only 300 parsec away.
December 30, 2025 at 8:46 AM
#Galaxy cluster MACS J0553-3342 with #JWST NIRCam (F277W+F356W+F444W). program: www.stsci.edu/jwst-program... (VENUS)
Brightest star on the left is TYC 7062-1810-1, which is only 300 parsec away.
Brightest star on the left is TYC 7062-1810-1, which is only 300 parsec away.
Reposted by Andrea Luck
Jupiter 's Circumpolar Cyclones - North Pole - NASA's Juno PJ65 - From Andrea Luck (andrealuck.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/2qjjjrc
December 30, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Jupiter 's Circumpolar Cyclones - North Pole - NASA's Juno PJ65 - From Andrea Luck (andrealuck.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/2qjjjrc
Reposted by Andrea Luck
It's happening! ESA & JAXA are teaming up to visit Apophis, the 400-meter (1300-foot) asteroid that will skim close by Earth in April, 2029.
The RAMSES mission will study this potentially hazardous object & watch how Earth's gravity reshapes it as it passes. 🧪🔭
cosmos.isas.jaxa.jp/look-up-esa-...
The RAMSES mission will study this potentially hazardous object & watch how Earth's gravity reshapes it as it passes. 🧪🔭
cosmos.isas.jaxa.jp/look-up-esa-...
December 29, 2025 at 6:55 PM
It's happening! ESA & JAXA are teaming up to visit Apophis, the 400-meter (1300-foot) asteroid that will skim close by Earth in April, 2029.
The RAMSES mission will study this potentially hazardous object & watch how Earth's gravity reshapes it as it passes. 🧪🔭
cosmos.isas.jaxa.jp/look-up-esa-...
The RAMSES mission will study this potentially hazardous object & watch how Earth's gravity reshapes it as it passes. 🧪🔭
cosmos.isas.jaxa.jp/look-up-esa-...
Reposted by Andrea Luck
The #planet #Jupiter on December 28. Imaged with #Celestron C9.25 EdgeHD, #Televue 2.5x barlow and #PlayerOne Uranus C camera.
#astronomy #astrophotography #solarsystem #space
#astronomy #astrophotography #solarsystem #space
December 29, 2025 at 11:43 PM
The #planet #Jupiter on December 28. Imaged with #Celestron C9.25 EdgeHD, #Televue 2.5x barlow and #PlayerOne Uranus C camera.
#astronomy #astrophotography #solarsystem #space
#astronomy #astrophotography #solarsystem #space