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David Grinspoon @drfunkyspoon.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Scary, unsettling times on this world. Meanwhile, 5,000 light years away, this beautiful giant cloud, the Dolphin Nebula, glows, blown by hot winds from a massive star. About 60 light years across, it covers an area about the size of a full moon in our skies. 🧪 apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap20030...

Glowing blue cosmic cloud looking sort of like a dolphin.

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ESA Space Science @science.esa.int · 03/03/2025

Using six wavelength bands, from the ultraviolet to the infrared, #Hubble has observed the spiral galaxy NGC 5042 in all its multicoloured magnificence! Read more 👉 esahubble.org/images/potw2... 🧪🔭

The spiral galaxy NGC 5042. It is noticeably bright around the central region of its disc, then dims somewhat out to the edge where there are fewer stars. Two spiral arms circle through the disc and emerge beyond its edge, around the galaxy’s sides. Many pink spots of new star formation, as well as dark reddish strands of dust, cover the galaxy. The arms contain some speckled, blue patches containing hot stars.

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Katie Hughes (Alba Astro) 🔭 📷 @albaastro.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

#astro The sky gods were kind enough to gift me a few hours of cloud free sky. NGC 2264 aka The Christmas Tree Nebula.

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Universal-Sci @universal-sci.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Behold HDW 3, a huge, ancient planetary nebula. Its unique braided shape is the result of a collision with interstellar gas as the nebula moves through the galaxy (Credit: T.A. Rector (University of Alaska Anchorage) / H. Schweiker - WIYN and NOIRLab/NSF/AURA)

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Jwst Feed @jwstfeed.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

New MIRI image of NGC 1514 was released in a recent article. arxiv.org/abs/2502.212...

Coadded images of NGC 1514 at 7.7 µm (upper left), 12.8 µm (upper right), 25.5 µm (lower left), and a three-color composite image of the three. The origin (0′,0′) corresponds to the position of the central binary star.

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Jwst Feed @jwstfeed.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Tip of Horsehead nebula, by JWST (NIRCam). Processed by George Hatfield. www.astrobin.com/cuw5ti

$A close-up view of the Horsehead Nebula's edge captured by NIRCam, revealing the intricate texture of the cloud's upper layer. A central bright star, with its characteristic eight-pointed diffraction spikes, dominates the image. Faint, distant galaxies are scattered throughout the deep space background, which has a reddish tint.$

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

After all the Red Carpets, the ceremony itself, the after party & the after-after parties, nothing compares to the warm welcome upon my return home. 🐕 🐶 🐾 #Oscars2025

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Jwst Feed @jwstfeed.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

N44. Located in the Large Magellanic Cloud, N44 nebula is approximately 1,000 light-years wide and 160,000-170,000 light-years distant. It is an emission nebula with superbubble structure. Hubble data processing: @thocarp.bsky.social www.flickr.com/photos/19746... 🔭 🧪

This Hubble Space Telescope image captures N44, a star-forming region in the Large Magellanic Cloud. The image shows a multicolored cloud of gas and dust, sculpted by stellar winds and radiation, with bright stars shining within the dark, obscuring material. (Provides context and specific details)

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God @skeetofgod.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

The worst-case scenario is looking pretty good right now.

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Jwst Feed @jwstfeed.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Iconic Pillars of Creation. MIRI + NIRCam composite image. 🔭 🧪

Semi-opaque layers of blue, purple, and grey gas and dust start at the bottom left and rise toward the top right. There are three prominent pillars. The left pillar is the largest and widest. The background is orange near the top and dark blue and purple near the bottom. Some blue and white stars dot the overall scene.

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Bluesky @bsky.app · 01/02/2025

30M users 1B posts 🤝 bluesky milestone achieved this week

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Astronomy 🔭 @astronomy.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

The Pillars of Creation, towering columns of gas and dust in the Eagle Nebula, captured in stunning detail by the James Webb Space Telescope. These pillars are stellar nurseries where new stars are born, located about 6,500 light-years away. Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI.

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awkword @awkword.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

120+ Indigenous tribal leaders have sent a letter asking for Executive Clemency for Leonard Peltier “A survivor of the federally funded boarding school system where he endured years of physical, emotional, and spiritual abuse” ndncollective.org/120-tribal-l... @ndncollective.bsky.social

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

In an effort to ignore the hideous reality we are all facing, here's a picture of me as a cowboy for no apparent reason. 🤠

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Ginny Di @ginnydi.com · 05/01/2025

Remember how ten or fifteen years ago, if you really loved a movie, you WANTED it to have a sequel? Now when I really love a movie and I hear it’s getting a sequel, I’m like 😔 damn

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Toby 🇵🇸 @tobestewart.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

[montage of me doing nothing]

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Christoph Fischer Photography @beautysurroundsyou.com · 05/01/2025

During our flight over the Peel Watershed in Canada's Yukon, the sun struggled to break through rain showers and ominous clouds, but when it did, the short lived splendour was astounding! #photography #nature #bluesky #naturephotography #landscapephotography #BlueSkyArtShow #sunset #landscape

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bagotricks.bsky.social @bagotricks.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

Something I’ve grown to appreciate since childhood. #aknative #yup’ik

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Jwst Feed @jwstfeed.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

Tomorrow's NASA's Astronomy Picture Of the Day (APOD): colliding spiral galaxies by JWSTand Hubble. 🔭 🧪

Two spiral galaxies take up almost the entire view and appear to be overlapping. The galaxy at left, IC 2163, is smaller and more compact than the galaxy at right, NGC 2207. The black background of space is dotted with foreground stars and extremely distant galaxies.

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███ACTED @vicjager.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

Possibly the best clap back against ignorant antivaxxers.

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Clay Ennis Astrophotography @clayennisastro.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

This is the star Sirius! It is the brightest star in the night sky. Sirius is almost twice as bright as Canopus, the next brightest star! It is also twice as massive as the sun! It is located 8.6 light years away. #astronomy @kat-astro-bot.bsky.social

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Jwst Feed @jwstfeed.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

19 spiral galaxies imaged by JWST as part of PHANGS project, aiming to study nearby galaxies. 🔭 🧪

Nineteen Webb images of face-on spiral galaxies are combined in a mosaic, some within squares, and others horizontal or vertical rectangles. Galaxies’ spiral arms appear in shades of orange, and many of their centres have light blue hazes.

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Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

Y'all. The time has come. Once a year I succumb to the greatest mistake anyone can make for $1.99 That's right. It's TIME for... my annual Costco hot dog

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Jwst Feed @jwstfeed.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

National Astronomical Observatory of Japan: using JWST, we figured out how giant galaxies grow with active supermassive black hole in their center. www.nao.ac.jp/news/topics/... 🔭 🧪

A proto-galaxy cluster located 11 billion light-years away is the Spider-Web Cluster. Image taken by the James Webb Space Telescope. (Credit: Shimakawa et al.)

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Jax Persists @jaxpersists.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

What didn’t kill me didn’t make me stronger. It gave me crippling anxiety, a lot of unhealthy coping mechanisms, some really nasty nightmares, the ability to drink enough caffeine to kill a horse, and made me into a cynic who cusses way more than necessary.

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bagotricks.bsky.social @bagotricks.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

If you’re a fan of dinos and building bases on your free time, I’d def recommend this cluster. Friendly admin and community. They often have prize drawings and enough maps to shake things up! Cross-play friendly, also have a discord. #AotF #ASA #playArk #ArkAscended

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Christopher Harrison Photography @charrisonphotos.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Photographing the Milky Way has to be one of my favourite subjects. Seeing the sheer number of stars combining together into the milky glow just makes me feel both insignificant and significant at the same time. Isn't it just awe inspiring? #astrophotography #milkyway

The milky way glows above the epic Buachaille etive mor in Glencoe. The aurora also shows through, the delicate pinks and greens glowing in n the sky. Thousands of stars visible. Astrophotography, Scotland

The golden Milky Way is clearly visible beautifully above the dark skies of the Sahara desert in Morocco. The clearest skies I’ve ever experienced.

The Milky Way, andromeda and a shooting star are visible from the banks of loch Morlich in the cairngorms national park. The ancient pine trees can be seen growing on the beach in the dark.

The Milky Way glowed through the delicate pink of the Aurora northern lights in the cairngorms national park in August 2024. Such a unique and beautiful scene, one I’ll remember for a long time.

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God @skeetofgod.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

There's no need to worry over the future. Worrying over the present is more than sufficient.

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