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James Webb Space Telescope’s infrared view of the Pillars of Creation
November 23, 2024 at 5:03 AM
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A Meteor shower
November 21, 2024 at 2:03 PM
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James Webb’e Space Telescopes view of spiral galaxy NGC 3351
November 20, 2024 at 12:57 AM
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Stars and Dust in the Pacman Nebula
Stars can create huge and intricate dust sculptures from the dense and dark molecular clouds from which they are born. The tools the stars use to carve their detailed works are high energy light and fast stellar winds. The heat they generate evaporates the dark molecular dust as well as causing ambient hydrogen gas to disperse and glow. Pictured here, a new open cluster of stars designated IC 1590 is nearing completion around the intricate interstellar dust structures in the emission nebula NGC 281, dubbed the Pac-man Nebula because of its overall shape. The dust cloud just above center is classified as a Bok Globule as it may gravitationally collapse and form a star -- or stars. The Pacman Nebula lies about 10,000 light years away toward the constellation of Cassiopeia. Image Credit & Copyright: Malcolm Loro
November 19, 2024 at 12:58 AM
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A meteor shower
What's happening in the sky above Stonehenge? A meteor shower: specifically, the Perseid meteor shower. A few nights ago, after the sky darkened, many images of meteors from this year's Perseids were captured separately and merged into a single frame. Although the meteors all traveled on straight paths, these paths appear slightly curved by the wide-angle lens of the capturing camera. The meteor streaks can all be traced back to a single point on the sky called the radiant, here just off the top of the frame in the constellation of Perseus. The same camera took a deep image of the background sky that brought up the central band of our Milky Way galaxy running nearly vertical through the image center. The featured image was taken from Wiltshire, England, being careful to include, at the bottom, the famous astronomical monument of Stonehenge. Although the Perseids peaked last night, some Perseid meteors should still be visible for a few more nights. Image Credit & Copyright: Josh Dury
November 18, 2024 at 2:26 PM
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What is the most spook-tacular nebula in the galaxy? One contender is LDN 43, which bears an astonishing resemblance to a vast cosmic bat flying amongst the stars on a dark Halloween night. Located about 1400 light years away in the constellation Ophiuchus, this molecular cloud is dense enough to block light not only from background stars, but from wisps of gas lit up by the nearby reflection nebula LBN 7. Far from being a harbinger of death, this 12-light year-long filament of gas and dust is actually a stellar nursery. Glowing with eerie light, the bat is lit up from inside by dense gaseous knots that have just formed young stars. Credit & Copyright: Mark Hanson and Mike Selby; Text: Michelle Thaller (NASA's GSFC
November 17, 2024 at 3:16 PM
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7500 light-years away from us
November 17, 2024 at 8:39 AM
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Earth seen from the ISS
November 17, 2024 at 10:24 AM
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i love the pillars of creation 🌌
Three massive pillars of gas and dust extend upward through the image, in descending order of height from left to right. They are mostly opaque and dark brown, against a background of blue, green, and gold dust and gas. A few scattered pinkish stars are visible throughout. Three prominent pillars of semi-opaque gas and dust, each in spectral shades of gray-blue, start at the bottom left and reach toward the top right. From left to right, each pillar is consecutively smaller. Together, they appear like a ghostly hand. Towards the top of the leftmost pillar, there is one prominent red star, with tiny spikes at its tip. Lower on this pillar, there are several darker areas of dust that jut out like protrusions, some also with stars that appear as small red dots. The other two pillars are below and to the right of the first pillar. The background of this scene takes on glowing shades of orange-red mixed with black, with the strongest bright orange hues dipping into a V shape at the top center of the image. Scattered throughout the image are a few dozen tiny bright white and blue stars. Larger stars appear like red orbs and are embedded in the pillars.
November 17, 2024 at 2:04 AM
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Happy Saturday from Canada! 🇨🇦
November 16, 2024 at 3:03 PM
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The Pillars of Creation captured by the James Webb Space Telescope
November 16, 2024 at 6:09 AM
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galaxies 🌌
A close-up shot of a spiral galaxy. A bright core is seen edge-on, with spiral arms surrounding it. These arms are full of dark brown dust and hazy blue star formation. Slightly oblique view of a spiral galaxy with a glowing yellow central core and two spiral arms that wind clockwise from the center. The arms consist of dark reddish-brown dust trails that are vein-like and hazy clouds of blue stars. The outer regions of the galaxy appear bluer, with bright clusters of blue stars sparsely lining the outer edges of the spiral arms. There are a few foreground stars that have bright white or blue cores with colorful fuzzy halos and four diffraction spikes radiating from their centers. Scattered across the dark background are thousands of faint objects that vary in size, shape, and color. Most appear as small dots, ovals, or lines in different shades of orange, red, and blue. A massive spiral galaxy fills the image. A bright, yellow galactic core glows at the center, surrounded by spiral arms studded with pink stars and dark lanes of dust. A massive spiral galaxy fills the image. A bright, yellow galactic core glows at the center, surrounded by spiral arms studded with pink stars and dark lanes of dust.
November 16, 2024 at 4:27 AM
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Good Saturday morning
Wishing you a day of bright shades of happiness...
The sun is coming up over the horizon. There are tree silhouettes along the bottom of the frame. The sky is gold, light blue, and white.
November 16, 2024 at 12:00 PM
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The sombrero galaxy captured by the Hubble Space Telescope.
Messier object 104
November 15, 2024 at 3:58 PM
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If I’m being honest, this picture is almost as peaceful as leaving behind that God awful bird app
A small and steep waterfall cascading over moss-covered rocks. The waterfall is located within a lush green forest, although many of the trees are missing leaves.
November 16, 2024 at 2:51 AM
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Instagram is all videos now and I miss the days when my photography had a fighting chance of being seen. So here’s an Oregon waterfall from a few years ago.
Waterfall pouring into a clear pool of water.
November 15, 2024 at 9:25 PM
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A rose made of galaxies..
November 16, 2024 at 5:12 PM
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The Whirlpool Galaxy

NASA
November 15, 2024 at 10:55 PM