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The Christmas Tree in Space...
December 23, 2024 at 4:35 PM
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The WITCH HEAD NEBULA
December 13, 2024 at 2:34 PM
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Breathtaking: The Black Eye GalaxyP
December 5, 2024 at 8:34 AM
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NGC 6302: The "Butterfly Nebula"
Credit:NASA
Hubble was recently retrained on NGC 6302, known as the "Butterfly Nebula," to observe it across a more complete spectrum of light, from near-ultraviolet to near-infrared, helping researchers better understand the mechanics at work in its technicolor "wings" of gas. The observations highlight a new pattern of near-infrared emission from singly ionized iron, which traces an S shape from lower left to upper right. This iron emission likely traces the central star system’s most recent ejections of gas, which are moving at much faster speeds than the previously expelled mass. The star or stars at its center are responsible for the nebula's appearance. In their death throes, they have cast off layers of gas periodically over the past couple thousand years. The "wings" of NGC 6302 are regions of gas heated to more than 36,000 degrees Fahrenheit that are tearing across space at more than 600,000 miles an hour. NGC 6302 lies between 2,500 and 3,800 light-years away in the constellation Scorpius.
December 3, 2024 at 9:15 PM
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this is a combined view of the hubble and webb views of the ring nebula and oh my god it’s SO beautiful 🌌
The Ring Nebula (M57), is more complicated than it appears through a small telescope. The easily visible central ring is about one light-year across, but this remarkable combined exposure by the James Webb Space Telescope and the Hubble Space Telescope explores this popular nebula with deep exposures in visible and infrared light. Strings of gas, like eyelashes around a cosmic eye, become evident around the Ring in this digitally enhanced featured image in assigned colors. These long filaments may be caused by shadowing of knots of dense gas in the ring from energetic light emitted within.
December 4, 2024 at 12:09 AM
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A little bit of Andromeda in my life
A little bit of Andromeda by my side
A little bit of Andromeda’s all I need
A little bit of Andromeda’s all I see

A quick and a of a bit lazy #astrophotography shot with my Redcat 61 and ASI183MC last night from the New Hampshire Seacoast 🔭
M31 galaxy andromeda and one of its satellite galaxies
December 4, 2024 at 3:40 AM
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astrojaz.bsky.social
this is definitely one of the space pics of all time
A filamentary orange veil covers a bright region of star formation. The background is dark, stippled with stars and galaxies ranging from small bright dots to starry shapes. The foreground veil spans from upper left to the bottom right and resembles a seahorse. Bright stars light up the ‘eye’ and ‘chest’ regions of the seahorse with purple light. Within the tail, three bright spots sit in a traffic-light like formation.
November 29, 2024 at 2:24 AM
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So I meet latto y'all big mama in the building #bigmama
November 19, 2024 at 10:31 AM