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zainny

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i like looking at the sky, fiona apple, and driving

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The WITCH HEAD NEBULA

December 15, 2024 at 12:03 PM

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Jasmine 🌌🔭

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you are looking at the future for our sun. this is a planetary nebula, the final stage of life for a sun-like star.

[image credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, R. Wade et al.]

A blue-white blob in blackness.

Image credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, R. Wade et al.

December 15, 2024 at 6:56 PM

zainny

@zainnyy.bsky.social

life is hard i wish i could just sleep under a pile of warm laundry

December 15, 2024 at 8:42 PM

zainny

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how i’ve been feeling lately.

November 14, 2024 at 2:54 AM

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Jasmine 🌌🔭

@astrojaz.bsky.social

EXCITING EUROPA CLIPPER NEWS!!

the magnetometer boom has successfully been deployed!! this instrument is incredibly important on the spacecraft since it’ll be used to confirm the oceans existence, measure its depth/salinity, and determine ice shell thickness ❄️

An animation of the Europa Clipper spacecraft with the magnetometer boom extended!

November 12, 2024 at 2:51 AM

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Jasmine 🌌🔭

@astrojaz.bsky.social

star clusters are so beautiful ✨

Bright blue stars are in a cluster at the center of the image. They are surrounded by a shell of brownish and burnt orange dust and gas. The shell has ridges that reach towards the stars like teeth. A number of more distant galaxies also appear in the background.

A grouping of large, glowing, and purplish stars dominate the image’s center. Dark ridges of gas and dust are visible around them, with more background stars crowding the view.

$Several bright-white, bluish, and orange stars shine with diffraction spikes, interspersed throughout dark dust. Particularly dark regions of gas and dust are seen near the lower left.$ A dense cluster of bright stars. The core of the cluster is to the left and has a distinct group of blue stars. Surrounding the core are a multitude of stars in warmer colors. These stars are very numerous near the core and become more sparse, as well as more small and distant, out to the sides of the image. A few larger stars also stand in the foreground near the edges of the image.