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Fascinating: SNR 0454-67.2, a supernova remnant in the LMC. Likely born from a Type Ia explosion, it features red filaments amid dark clouds. Such supernovae shine with consistent brightness, making them vital “standard candles” for gauging cosmic distances.

(Credit: ESA/Hubble, NASA)
August 10, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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Neutron stars spin up to 716 times per second - Start exploring universe with Award Winning Telescopes--> https://www.jameswebbdiscovery.com/top-10-telescopes-telescopeadvisor-awards-2025 or beginners choice--> https://amzn.to/45dxlOF #Astronomy #AmazonAffiliate #NASA #Space
100 Fascinating Facts about Neutron Stars
100 Fascinating Facts about Neutron Stars
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August 10, 2025 at 3:58 AM
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jwstfeed.bsky.social
Beautiful NGC 3147.
Processed JWST/NIRCam data by @thocarp.bsky.social
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This is a high-resolution infrared image of NGC 3147, a face-on spiral galaxy. The galaxy has tightly wound spiral arms speckled with star formation regions, radiating from a prominent, bright central bulge. The image, captured by the James Webb Space Telescope's NIRCam instrument, reveals intricate details, including dark dust lanes and bright star clusters within the spiral arms.
February 24, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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NEW HUBBLE IMAGE OF THE VEIL NEBULA AND IT’S GORGEOUS!!! 🌌✨
A colourful, glowing nebula that reaches beyond the top and bottom of the image. It is made of translucent clouds of gas: wispy and thin with hard edges in some places, and puffy and opaque in others. Blue, red and yellow colours mix together, showing light emitted by different types of atoms in the hot gas. Bright and pointlike stars are scattered across the nebula. The background is black.
February 24, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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aestheticspost.bsky.social
Orange Haze 🧡
February 18, 2025 at 12:57 AM
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itsthepleiades.bsky.social
Webb’s MIRI captures Arp 107, revealing a supermassive black hole shaping the spiral galaxy. Young stars shine blue, forming in clouds of dusty silicates creating intricate patterns.

Image Credit: #NASA, #ESA, CSA, STScI

🔭 #Space #Astronomy
February 17, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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audiomite.bsky.social
In a galaxy far far away.........
February 14, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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hourlycosmos.bsky.social
NGC 247 with the 2.5m INT - From Ángel López-Sánchez - https://flic.kr/p/2kDR8cf
NGC 247 is a small spiral galaxy about 11.1 million light years away in the constellation Cetus. It belongs to the Sculptor galaxy group. This image shows plenty of star-forming regions (in red colours) and young star-clusters (in blue-white), as well as a central region with dominant old stars (yellow colours). Image obtained using the 2.5m Isaac Newton Telescope (Obs. Roque de los Muchachos, La Palma, Spain). We used the Wide Field Camera (WFC) and filters B (blue) R (green) and H-alpha (red). Observations were conducted in October 2006. The data were reprocessed in February 2021. Credit: Ángel R. López-Sánchez (AAO-MQ), Adal Mesa-Delgado, Sergio Simón-Díaz (IAC) and Bärbel Koribalski (CSIRO).
February 14, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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allthegalaxies.galaxyzoo.org
A spiral galaxy, observed with the Apache Point 2.5m Telescope in the SDSS survey.

It is at redshift 0.028 (lookback time 397.0 million years) with coordinates (167.23819, 26.59614).

45 volunteers classified this galaxy in Galaxy Zoo 2.
A spiral galaxy from the Galaxy Zoo 2 project, classified by 45 volunteers.
February 13, 2025 at 3:15 AM
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asleepywanderer.bsky.social
A propos of nothing, here's a digital painting from a few years ago - a rainbow version of my nebula inspired by the heart nebula.

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A heart-shaped nebula with a bright rainbow inside of it
February 12, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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adisruptivekid.bsky.social
👀

Don’t forget to look up…
January 31, 2025 at 4:40 AM
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roseinthewoods.bsky.social
Sending love and healing to all the families who have lost loved ones in the plane tragedy yesterday.
January 31, 2025 at 3:36 AM
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clayennisastro.bsky.social
Bodes Galaxy was one of the first galaxies that I imaged when I first started my journey into #astrophotography nearly three years ago. This is the first time that I have actually achieved an image that I really like. I hope you like it too! #astronomy @kat-astro-bot.bsky.social
January 30, 2025 at 7:11 AM
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A spiral galaxy, observed with the Apache Point 2.5m Telescope in the SDSS survey.

It is at redshift 0.039 (lookback time 549.7 million years) with coordinates (236.50760, 5.13703).

33 volunteers classified this galaxy in Galaxy Zoo 2.
A spiral galaxy from the Galaxy Zoo 2 project, classified by 33 volunteers.
January 31, 2025 at 12:54 AM
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High quality image of one of the heaviest and most luminous stars in the known universe (Hubble).
Processing: Judy Schimdt.
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This Hubble Space Telescope image showcases WR 124, a Wolf-Rayet star, enveloped by a luminous nebula. The brilliant central star illuminates the surrounding material, creating a vibrant orange glow punctuated by dark, wispy patches of dust and gas. This nebula, formed by the powerful stellar winds ejected from WR 124, reveals the star's dynamic interaction with its environment. The image captures the complex structure and turbulent nature of the nebula, highlighting the distinct features of this massive, evolved star against the backdrop of a dark cosmos speckled with distant stars.
January 30, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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I spent another 2 nights on the Pleiades over the past couple nights and was able to pull some fainter dust lanes over my previous attempt! The 7 sisters are so majestic 😍

Total time: 14hrs
Scope: AT72edii
Mount: Sky Watcher Eq6-R Pro
Camera: ZWO ASI533mc Pro

#astrophotography #astronomy
The Pleiades Star Cluster
January 29, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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A rare cartwheel galaxy
PGC-2248
Photo credit James Webb Space Telescope
Constellation Sculptor
Discovered 1941 by Fritz Zwicky
Distance 500 light years
Once a normal spiral galaxy it collided perfectly (bulls eye) with another galaxy who's shock wave created this unique structure.
January 29, 2025 at 3:49 AM
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Goodnight my
January 28, 2025 at 2:21 AM
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subrosamagick.bsky.social
"Pleiades last night, shot as a mosaic for wider field, 150 minutes of integration on Bortle 4 skies. DeNoised in the Seestar app then lightly edited in Lightroom.
I've been using this scope for a week and love it!"
Ralph Ceseña
January 27, 2025 at 2:31 AM
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A long ago collision of two galaxies stirred up this far off star system called the Black Eye Galaxy (M64) and resulted in all this dark galactic dust obscuring the active starburst core. I photographed this using a 16 inch vintage telescope and modern ccd camera

#astrophotography #space #galaxies
January 26, 2025 at 3:29 AM
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The California nebula in Perseus. Just over ten hours of narrow band data shot from Spain in Sept 23, using the Redcat51. The hydrogen gas in the nebula is glowing due to the energy from the nearby star Menkib. #Astronomy #Astrophotography
January 26, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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dompe.space
Almost 6h of data on the Horsehead nebula with the C11 w reducer. 🔭 #Astrophotography
January 26, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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NGC 2024 (Flame Nebula) by NIRCam.
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The Flame Nebula, captured by the NIRCam instrument, reveals a celestial tapestry of interstellar gas and dust. A prominent plume of gas, tinged with a deep blue, dominates the image, while surrounding clouds shimmer in shades of pink and purple.
January 26, 2025 at 12:23 PM