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R.C. Sockwell
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Bryce Canyon National Park | US 🇺🇸
December 5, 2024 at 1:34 AM
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So many stars ✨
December 5, 2024 at 3:14 AM
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It’s a while since I captured this image but it’s still one of my favorite. This «Toblerone» mountain is really special and is located in Northern Norway
December 1, 2024 at 7:56 PM
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The Helix Nebula captured by NASA'S Hubble space telescope
The Helix Nebula captured by NASA'S Hubble space telescope
December 1, 2024 at 3:56 PM
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A brutal hit on Jaguars QB Trevor Lawrence, resulting in the ejection of Texans LB Aziz Al-Shaair.
December 1, 2024 at 7:14 PM
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Aurora over Monument Valley, Arizona 🇺🇸
December 1, 2024 at 3:18 AM
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December 1, 2024 at 1:53 AM
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November 30, 2024 at 5:42 PM
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Clearest image ever taken of Heart Nebula, located 7500 light years away from us
December 1, 2024 at 12:52 AM
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Beautiful capture … Glacier National Park 🇺🇲✨💙✨💙✨💙✨
November 30, 2024 at 9:04 PM
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The Heart Nebula

telescope.live/gallery/hear...
November 30, 2024 at 6:33 AM
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Hong Kong Harbour At Night, Elizabeth Keith, 1924
November 30, 2024 at 9:32 AM
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November 30, 2024 at 2:30 PM
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dr manhattan obliterates someone. the "hide reply for everyone" menu item is in front of him
November 30, 2024 at 2:33 AM
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Horsetail Falls, Oregon USA

#nature
#photography
Single strand of water falling over a mossy rock into an emerald green pool of water with round rocks. The air smelled of moss and watery mist
November 30, 2024 at 3:58 AM
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Phobos over Mars! Yes, that's also Olympus Mons...

The full size image is 140MP: flic.kr/p/2qdsc1g
Credit:
Image Processing: AndreaLuck CC BY
Raw data: ESA/DLR/FUBerlin 🔭

ESA Mars Express 2024-07-13
The potato-shaped satellite Phobos is orbiting over Mars in this image taken from orbit by ESA Mars Express. Mars is a rusty reddish with its huge Olympus Mons and a tiny atmosphere layer on the limb. Phobos is a gray potato full of craters.
November 29, 2024 at 11:02 PM
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Cygnus OB2 star cluster.
This release features a composite image of the Cygnus OB2 star cluster, which resembles a night sky blanketed in orange, purple, and grey clouds. The center of the square image is dominated by purple haze. This haze represents diffuse X-ray emissions, and young stars, detected by the Chandra X-ray observatory. Surrounding the purple haze is a mottled, streaky, brick orange cloud. Another cloud resembling a tendril of grey smoke stretches from our lower left to the center of the image. These clouds represent relatively cool dust and gas observed by the Spitzer Space Telescope. Although the interwoven clouds cover most of the image, the thousands of stars within the cluster shine through. The lower-mass stars present as tiny specks of light. The massive stars gleam, some with long refraction spikes.
November 29, 2024 at 11:33 PM
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NGC 1566: A Spiral Galaxy from Webb and Hubble
NGC 1566: A Spiral Galaxy from Webb and Hubble Image Credit & Copyright: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, J. Lee (STScI), T. Williams (Oxford), R. Chandar (UToledo), D. Calzetti (UMass), PHANGS Team Explanation: What's different about this galaxy? Very little, which makes the Spanish Dancer galaxy, NGC 1566, one of the most typical and photogenic spirals on the sky. There is something different about this galaxy image, though, because it is a diagonal combination of two images: one by the Hubble Space Telescope on the upper left, and the other by the James Webb Space Telescope on the lower right. The Hubble image was taken in ultraviolet light and highlights the locations of bright blue stars and dark dust along the galaxy's impressive spiral arms. In contrast, the Webb image was taken in infrared light and highlights where the same dust emits more light than it absorbed. In the rollover image, the other two sides of these images are revealed. Blinking between the two images shows which stars are particularly hot because they glow brighter in ultraviolet light, and the difference between seemingly empty space and infrared-glowing dust.
November 30, 2024 at 2:32 AM
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The Medulla Nebula Supernova Remnant.
Credit: Kimberly Sibbald
The Medulla nebula, also called Abell 85, LBN 576 and CTB-1, is a supernova remnant. CTB-1 is the expanding gas shell that was left when a massive star toward the constellation of Cassiopeia exploded about 10,000 years ago. This deep sky object it's pretty faint and needs some deep integrations to show some detail. I struggled to get as much data as I could with my dual Takahashi FSQ setup during several full moon January 2022 nights. For the nebula structure I used a 3nm Ha filter in front of my ASI2600M and FSQ106 EDX4. On the other side, the FSQ85 was gathering lots of data in [OIII] with the smaller ASI294MM sensor. RGB images were also captured to create the starfield image in natural color.
November 30, 2024 at 1:33 AM
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November 29, 2024 at 6:10 PM
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Nice pic

All credit to:space moon
November 29, 2024 at 1:08 PM
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The beauty of our planet 🌍🌕🌊
November 29, 2024 at 7:58 PM