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hubble’s latest images 🌌✨
A close-in view of the center of galaxy M82. Bright, bluish light radiating from the center is due to stars actively forming there. A thick lane of gas, black in the center and red around the edges, crosses the center and blocks much of the light. Thinner strands and clumps of reddish dust cover much of the rest of the view. Stars in a star cluster shine brightly blue, with four-pointed diffraction spikes radiating from them. The center shows a small, crowded group of stars while a larger group is partially visible on the right side of the image. The nebula is mostly thick, smoky clouds of gas, lit up in blue tones by the stars. Clumps of dust hover before and around the stars; they are mostly dark but lit around their edges where the starlight erodes them. A spiral galaxy. It shines brightly at its center, and most of its disk also glows in warm colors. Its two spiral arms, which wind outward from the center, are made up mostly of large patches of bright blue specks. They also contain thin, reddish clouds of dust, and bright pink bubbles of glowing gas, where stars are forming. Distant galaxies are visible around the galaxy as small orange spots, on a dark background. A spiral galaxy, tilted nearly face-on to us, with a slightly unusual shape. Its spiral arms form an oval-shaped ring around the galaxy’s disk, filled with blue light from stars, as well as pink glowing gas bubbles where new stars are forming. Threads of dark red dust swirl around the brightly glowing core, blocking some of its light. The dust lanes extend into and follow the spiral arms.
September 21, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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neilmatheson66.bsky.social
Graham Gercken.
Autumn River Trees
Oil on canvas.
September 21, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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meyoco.bsky.social
The Ginkgo cardigan 🧡 meyocostudio.com/products/gin...
September 21, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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apofiss.bsky.social
Some of my black cat paintings from previous autumn seasons!✨
September 21, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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#BookSky
August 2, 2025 at 8:10 AM
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It had been a couple of years since I last visited the Bode’s Galaxy, a target I had only captured in the past together with the nearby Cigar Galaxy. Realizing I didn’t even have a standalone shot in my archive, I took advantage of a couple of rare clear nights — and here it is! 🔭

#astrophotography
April 26, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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scrutacieli.bsky.social
I will wait for you in the night’s garden of light.
#nightscapes #starrynight
A night sky full of stars. In the foreground, trees on the hillside are visible below.
January 11, 2025 at 2:31 AM
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astronomy.bsky.social
Read more here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CG_4?utm_
CG 4 - Wikipedia
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January 11, 2025 at 2:50 AM
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astronomy.bsky.social
Cometary globules are gas clouds with dusty heads and tails, often forming stars. The rupture in CG4’s head is unexplained, and the nearby galaxy is unrelated.

Credit: CTIO, NOIRLab, DOE, NSF, AURA; Processing: T. A. Rector, D. de Martin & M. Zamani.
January 11, 2025 at 2:49 AM
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astrojaz.bsky.social
the southern crab nebula ✨

image credit: NASA, ESA, and STScI
It appears to have two nested hourglass-shaped structures that were sculpted by a whirling pair of stars in a binary system. The result is that both stars are embedded in a flat disk of gas stretching between them. This belt of material constricts the outflow of gas so that it only speeds away above and below the disk. The result is an hourglass-shaped nebula. The bubbles of gas and dust appear brightest at the edges, giving the illusion of crab leg structures. These "legs" are likely to be the places where the outflow slams into surrounding interstellar gas and dust, or possibly material which was earlier lost by the red giant star.
December 24, 2024 at 10:12 PM
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astrojaz.bsky.social
eyes in space 👁️🌌
A spiral galaxy, seen close-up. Its core is a round spot that glows intensely bright, crowned by eight long and spikes that extend across the galaxy, artefacts of the telescope’s structure. Its disc is an oval shape with edges made of very thick and cloudy arms of gas and dust, mostly blue but paler and brighter around patches of stars. Wisps of darker dust also fill the inner disc and swirl off the ends of the arms. The Helix Nebula appears as an eye in the center of the image. The outer layers appears yellow, while the inner layers are a darker blue color. There are many blue stars visible around the nebula. The background of the image shows dark red space. This image of the Ring Nebula, taken by Webb’s Near-Infrared Camera, appears as a distorted doughnut. The nebula’s inner cavity hosts shades of blue and green, while the detailed ring transitions through shades of orange in the inner regions and pink in the outer region. The ring’s inner region has distinct filament elements. Stars litter the scene, with a particularly prominent star with 8 long spikes in the top right corner. A small white dot with a large orange debris disk around it, resembling an eye.
December 19, 2024 at 10:31 PM
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Ocean moon
December 15, 2024 at 2:55 PM
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scrutacieli.bsky.social
When you just need silence and stars.

#nightscapes
A clear night sky filled with stars. Below, a dark range of hills forms a silhouette against the starry background. Details: Canon EOS 250D with kit 18mm F4 lens, ISO 1600, 15s. Location: Val d'Orcia, Italy
December 13, 2024 at 1:35 AM
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The young star cluster NGC 602, by #JWST
December 8, 2024 at 4:41 PM
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lorak.bsky.social
beach walk sunset in pacifica
pale white, gray & pink clouds in a hazy sky at sunset over a slightly choppy, frothy white ocean, waves breaking at the shore rolling in past two rows of rock formations
December 8, 2024 at 5:41 AM
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Beautiful timelapse of the Moon, Venus, and the Pleiades Cluster rising just before sunrise over the Ko'olau Mountain Range in O’ahu, Hawai’i. 💫💫💫

📽: Travis Shak 👏👏👏👏
December 8, 2024 at 12:04 AM
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Good Morning bsky
Feel the feelings
🕶️☀️🌊
Bluesky, blue wave ocean, dunes with a fence, more sand
December 8, 2024 at 11:58 AM
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Calming waters, sunset afterglow, and fellow observer keeping me a company 🦩
December 8, 2024 at 1:23 PM
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This is what a sunset on Earth looks like from orbit.
December 8, 2024 at 1:59 AM
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clarascintilla.bsky.social
Deep ocean creatures
December 7, 2024 at 7:05 AM
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ekvitki.bsky.social
#pixelart #art #space #maroon #aesthetic #vibe #pixel #scifi
December 8, 2024 at 9:03 AM
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Interesting fact: Every 60 minutes, the Universe pushes outward by a billion miles in all directions!

(Image credit: ESA/Hubble)
December 8, 2024 at 2:47 AM
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astrojaz.bsky.social
some beautiful star clusters seen by hubble ✨
Several stars with pointed diffraction spikes gleam in shades of white, orange, and blue against a black backdrop of space. Thousands of bright stars shine against black space, more tightly condensed near the image’s center. The stars glint in shades of white, blue, and red, and diffraction spikes are visible around the foreground stars. A cluster of stars in warm and cool colors. The whole view is filled with small stars, which become much denser and brighter around a core just right of center. Most of the stars are small, but some are larger with a round, brightly colored glow and four sharp diffraction spikes. Behind the stars, a dark background can be seen. This star cluster features several orange stars packed together near the center and growing more sporadic toward the image's edges. In the foreground, bigger blue stars with diffraction spikes shine, all against a black backdrop of space.
December 7, 2024 at 9:54 PM
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astrojaz.bsky.social
i’m a nebula kind of girl ✨
Three bright, blue-white stars at upper left mark the beginning of a bright and dusty reddish-brown, orange, and white swathe of glowing gas and dust, with its upper portions loosely resembling a snowman with a scarf and top hat. The rest of the image is dark and full of sparkling stars, many with diffraction spikes. This expansive and cloudy cosmic landscape has sweeping clouds that shine in pink, yellow, orange, and brown. Some large, bright stars are visible glowing within the clouds and other foreground stars are peppered throughout the image. A bright white point of light is surrounded by glowing lobes of gas to the left and right, shining in green that extends into orange and blue. Distant stars dot the black background of space. This Hubble view of a portion of the Carina Nebula has a bright, pale blue background dotted with shining white stars. Some foreground stars have diffraction spikes. A brown region of gas and dust snakes through the center of the image.
December 7, 2024 at 8:46 PM
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astrojaz.bsky.social
TODAY’S NEW HUBBLE IMAGE!! 🌌
A spiral galaxy filling the view. Its disk holds many bright red spots where stars are forming, dark reddish threads of dust that obscure light, and bluish glowing areas that hold concentrations of older stars. It has a large, glowing yellow oval area at the center, from which two spiral arms wind through the galaxy’s disk. One side of the disk appears rounded (bottom of the image) while the opposite side appears somewhat squared-off (top of the image).
December 6, 2024 at 8:48 PM