🦑💫This NASA/ESA Hubble image features the spiral galaxy Messier 77, also known as the Squid Galaxy.

It would take more than a century between the discovery of the galaxy and the realisation that the ‘spiral nebulae’ scattered across the sky were not part of our own galaxy!

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I glimpse eternity
And retreat ✨️
To the blissful now.

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Good morning #bluesky

Milch Strasse | Milky Way Crossing Karwendel Tirol. Ten years ago, while hiking in the Tyrolean Alps, I took this 456 single photo time lapse.
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Rosette nebula.

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I imaged my first globular cluster of the year! The M3 cluster is one of the largest and brightest and is made up of around 500,000 stars. It is estimated to be 11.4 billion years old and roughly 32,600 light-years from Earth.

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One of my favorite landscape photos. Lake Blata, Croatia.

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Clouds parted just in time for maximum totality at 1:58 a.m. here. The total lunar eclipse as viewed from my front door:

Perseids 2024. multiple exposure blended.

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Beautiful Milky way.

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From our friends at @gristnews.bsky.social: At any given moment, more than 10,000 satellites are whizzing around the planet at roughly 17,000 miles per hour. But space is getting crowded.

Hanging out under the Milky way.

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2024. Perseids meteor shower above the lake.

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Andromeda galaxy, M110 & M32.
2,5 milion light years away. Steadily traveling to merge with our galaxy, Milky way, in a few bilion years.

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The new James Webb images from the last week are incredible

Pleiades star cluster.

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Orion nebula with a camera and a tripod (no tracker).

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