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Processed the highest resolution view of comet C/2013 A1 Siding Spring taken by MRO’s HIRISE
July 7, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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Processed Cassini’s best view of Aegaeon, the smallest moon of Saturn, as observed on 27 January 2010. This moon’s surface should resemble those of the Alkyonides and Polydeuces, though a much longer object than them.
June 30, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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Processed Cassini’s best view of Saturn’s moon, Polydeuces
June 27, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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vrubinobs.bsky.social
Introducing...your sneak peek at the cosmos captured by NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory!

Can you guess these regions of sky?

This is just a small peek...join us at 11am US EDT for your full First Look at how Rubin will #CaptureTheCosmos! 🔭🧪

#RubinFirstLook
ls.st/rubin-first-look-livestream
A sprawling, textured field of galaxies scattered across the deep black of space. It is filled with the delicate smudges and glowing cores of galaxies of many shapes, sizes and colors, as well as the bright multi-colored points of stars. The image focuses on a collection of interacting galaxies connected by delicate streams of stars. At top center lies a large elliptical galaxy that is dense and smooth, like a polished stone glowing with golden light. Like delicate spider silk or stretched taffy, these stellar bridges link the large elliptical to the few larger galaxies beneath, evidence of past collisions. All throughout the image, thousands of galaxies gather in clusters or are spread throughout, like glittering gems strewn on a table. Some are sharp-edged and spiral, like coiled ribbons; others round and diffuse, like polished pebbles. Still others are just smudges of various colors against the black of space. The background is peppered with pinpoint stars in reds, yellows, and blues, crisp against the velvet black. A cosmic tapestry of glowing tan and pink gas clouds with dark dust lanes. In the upper right, the Trifid Nebula resembles a small flower in space. Its soft, pinkish gas petals are surrounded by blue gas, and streaked with dark, finger-like veins of dust that divide it into three parts. It radiates a gentle, misty glow, diffuse and soft like the warmth of breath on a cold hand. To the lower left, the much larger Lagoon Nebula stretches wide like a churning sea of magenta gas, with bright blue, knotted clumps sprinkled throughout where new stars are born. Both nebulae are embedded in a soft tan backdrop of gas that is brighter on the left than on the right, etched with dark tendrils of dust and sprinkled with the pinpricks of millions of stars. A sprawling, textured field of galaxies scattered across the deep black of space. It is filled with the delicate smudges and glowing cores of galaxies of many shapes, sizes and colors, as well as the bright multi-colored points of stars. To the lower left is a region filled with the hundreds of golden glittering gems of a distant galaxy cluster. In the foreground, below and right of center, two blue spiral galaxies look like eyes beneath the entangled mass of a triple galaxy merger in the upper right. A few bright blue points of foreground stars pierce the glittering tapestry. All throughout the image, thousands of galaxies gather in clusters or are spread throughout, like glittering gems strewn on a table. Some are sharp-edged and spiral, like coiled ribbons; others round and diffuse, like polished pebbles. Still others are just smudges of various colors against the black of space. The background is peppered with pinpoint stars in reds, yellows, and blues, crisp against the velvet black.
June 23, 2025 at 4:06 AM
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tedstryk.bsky.social
The largest prograde (orbit in the same direction as the planet rotates) moons of Neptune from Voyager 2. Nereid was the only one know prior to Voyager's approach. Please note that given what Bluesky does to photos, I can't guarantee the pixel scale is still as advertised.
June 19, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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eso.org
Astronomers have created a galactic masterpiece!

Using our VLT, they observed the Sculptor Galaxy in thousands of colours simultaneously 🌈

The more shades of colour there are in an image of a galaxy, the more we can learn about its inner workings.

Read more: www.eso.org/public/news/...
🔭 🧪 ☄️
A spiral galaxy, showing a thousand different colours that indicate the regions of different stars, gas and dust. The centre of the galaxy has more golden and orange light, while the outer edges fade into a deep blue that further fades into the black of the universe. Speckled across the galaxy are portions of bright pink light, along with patches of brown and black.
June 18, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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Processed a resolved image of near-Earth asteroid 2002 NY40 taken in August 2002 by the US Department of Defense’s AEOS.
June 17, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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Processed New Horizons’s view of Kerberos
June 13, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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loren-hall.bsky.social
Piñata - 2025 #Nature #Art #AbstractArt #Painting #NaturalProcessPainting #FractalExpressionism #LorenGAN
This is a colorful celebration of cultural achievement and contribution on multiple levels, from multiple perspectives. The rainbow color palate represents that spectrum of positive effects, and the intricacy of design represents the way ALL of the cultural effects are woven into society. They can never be removed, once they are there. Thank you for visiting the places I create, where ALL are welcome - except for those who would limit that freedom. THEY ARE NOT WELCOME.
June 13, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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Processed Voyager 2’s best image of Cressida, a moon of Uranus.
June 11, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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So I just woke up to hear that 2002 MS4, the largest unnamed Solar System object and the almost-dwarf planet with a huge crater, FINALLY got an official name after... (checks notes) 23 years.

A huge warm welcome to 307261 Máni!! 🔭
www.wgsbn-iau.org/files/Bullet...
June 9, 2025 at 3:51 PM
giggitygiggitee.bsky.social
A pride themed collage I made out of space images last year. Happy pride month to all 💖
June 1, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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tedstryk.bsky.social
Things can change fast. The US, after a dominant 1970s in terms of missions launched, launched now planetary spacecraft from August 18, 1978 until May 4, 1989. During that time, the Soviet Union continued to explore our planetary neighbors. The 1989 US launches were long delayed missions.
Mars, looking down at Valles Marineris, from Phobos-2 in 1989 Phobos from Phobos-2 in 1989. The nucleus of Comet 1/P Halley with a little bit of cometary activity visible. The surface of Venus from Venera-14
May 31, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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Processed the Galileo spacecraft’s best image of Jupiter’s moon, Thebe.
May 26, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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coreyspowell.bsky.social
I recently visited the ALMA observatory in Chile. While I was poking around the telescopes, ALMA researchers released amazing new views of planet-forming disks around young stars.

These are the most detailed images yet of new solar systems being born. 🧪🔭

public.nrao.edu/news/exoalma/
Deep ALMA observations of 12CO emission from fifteen protoplanetary disks reveal a stunning range of structures in the gas morphology including gaps, rings and spirals. Credit: Richard Teague and the exoALMA Collaboration
May 22, 2025 at 3:46 AM
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We found the most distant confirmed galaxy
(some Sergej Boebka vibes 😅)

arxiv.org/abs/2505.11263
May 19, 2025 at 6:42 AM
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Desmeared and processed Voyager 2’s best images of Neptune’s moons, Galatea and Naiad.
May 4, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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The speed of light visualized on a cosmic scale.

Credit: Dr James O'Donoghue
May 4, 2025 at 12:57 AM
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Processed Voyager 2’s best image of Neptune’s moon, Despina.
May 3, 2025 at 11:50 PM
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askaniy.bsky.social
I'm developing an open source program with GUI that stores a variety of space photometry and converts them to color, TrueColorTools.
It can also process images and generate color charts. Here's the latest table of some featured objects (geometric albedo mode, sRGB color space, Illuminant E)
May 3, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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Processed Cassini and New Horizons’s best images of Jupiter’s largest irregular moon, Himalia.
May 3, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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Processed the Galileo spacecraft’s best image of Metis, the closest moon of Jupiter.
May 1, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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tedstryk.bsky.social
More of the surface of Triton at 360 meters/pixel from Voyager 2 in 1989. To the lower left, the relatively flat surface of a frozen nitrogen lake can be seen, with multiple islands interrupting it.
April 30, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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Processed the Galileo spacecraft’s best image of the fifth largest moon of Jupiter, Amalthea. It’s prolifically cratered leading hemisphere is on the left, Lyctos and Ida facula are on the right, Pan is the large crater on the top left, and Gaea’s facula is on the bottom right.
April 19, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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Processed images of asteroid (2) Pallas taken by the Very Large Telescope under Michael Marsset’s proposal between December 2022 and March 2023
March 27, 2025 at 11:28 AM