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NASASpaceflight.com @nasaspaceflight.com · 14/10/2026

Artemis III progress ahead of SLS going to the 39B for initial pad testing. www.nasaspaceflight.com/2026/10/arte...

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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

IT’S BEEN 6 MONTHS SINCE ARTEMIS II?!

Christina Koch’s silhouette smiling with the Earth visible out the window behind her.

The Artemis II astronauts hugging each other inside the Integrity.

Crescent Earth in the background peeking out behind the Moon which is in the forefront of the image.

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NASASpaceflight.com @nasaspaceflight.com · 11/10/2026

Teams using JWST and Hubble recently released several dazzling photos highlighting the complex and ever-changing uniqueness of our universe. The images highlight stellar nurseries, galaxy clusters, an out-of-sync galaxy and a bubble-like nebula ⬇️ www.nasaspaceflight.com/2026/10/jwst...

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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

we didn’t appreciate these images enough.

Earth rising above the Moon’s crater-covered horizon against the blackness of space. The partially illuminated blue-and-white planet reveals swirling clouds and oceans, while the rugged gray lunar surface stretches across the foreground.

A wide view of the Moon’s heavily cratered surface, with Earth appearing as a small, partially illuminated blue-and-white crescent just above the lunar horizon on the upper left. Countless impact craters cover the curved lunar landscape, contrasting with the deep black background of space.

A dramatic close-up of the Moon’s densely cratered surface dominating the left side of the image. Beyond the sharply sloping lunar horizon, a partially illuminated Earth appears against the blackness of space, its bright blue oceans and white cloud formations visible along the sunlit crescent.

Earth peeking above the Moon’s sloping horizon, with its bright blue-and-white upper portion visible against the blackness of space. The foreground reveals an expansive, rugged lunar landscape covered in countless impact craters of varying sizes, with pronounced shadows highlighting the terrain.

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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

apollo 12 (1969) | artemis ii (2026)

A small, delicate crescent Earth glows pale blue-white against the darkness of space, photographed through an Apollo 12 spacecraft window. The image has a soft, grainy appearance, with faint reflections and reddish-orange spacecraft framing visible along the right edge.

A thin crescent Earth shines against the blackness of space, its illuminated edge revealing a faint blue-white glow. Photographed through an Artemis II spacecraft window, the crescent appears near the center of the image, surrounded by darkness and the curved metallic structure of the window frame.

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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

the recent jwst images have been insane

$A young star cluster filled with many stars that display Webb’s unique eight-pronged diffraction pattern. At its center is a yellow star which sports the largest diffraction pattern. To the left of the star, there is a region filled with yellow dust and gas that extends from the star to the left border of the image. This yellow region extends from the bottom, covering about two-thirds of the image. The yellow region has several blue stars of different sizes embedded within. The top third, which lies outside of the yellow region, holds a few bright protostars, within dense gray gas. Those stars illuminate the gas, making it appear blue. A few red outflows from other protostars are visible above this grayish-blue region. To the right of the central star, there is a clumpy, flame-like plume of red dust and gas with protostars that emit a soft white light within. The plume is surrounded by more dense gray gas and dust. Image credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Processing: Alyssa Pagan.$

A massive galaxy cluster, made of many golden elliptical galaxies with the largest, brightest one in the center. Heavily distorted orange galaxies appear all around the cluster, the largest concentrated in a large arc around the cluster's center; these are images of very distant galaxies, created by gravitational lensing. A few galaxies are large and bluish-white in color; bright, nearby stars are the same color.

A star-forming region. The left two thirds of the image is blanketed in thick clouds of green and yellow gas and dust that form swirling patterns. Some of the gas is spread into thin, thready wisps. The right third of the image is the black background speckled with stars and multi-colored dots that represent distant galaxies. Bright stars are scattered throughout the clouds, with the densest cluster situated in the center of the scene. Each is crowned with six long spikes and two shorter spikes created by the optics of the telescope’s mirrors.

A region of space filled with bright stars and clouds of gas. In the center, the densest clouds form the shape of a chest with its lid open. The chest appears to glow from within. At its base it breaks apart into long pillars of thick gas. Many of the gas clouds in the background are dark orange globules, while others form large, pale hazes. A few brightly shining stars lie in the foreground, the biggest and brightest in front of the chest’s lid.

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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 04/10/2026

A photograph taken from the surface of an asteroid by a small robot in 2018.

The surface of asteroid 162173 Ryugu. Turns out it looks like a poorly illuminated crawlspace at night.

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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

on this day in 1958, nasa officially launched operations!! since then, its sent man to the moon, sent spacecraft beyond our home planet, sent robots to the surface of mars, and there’s still so much more to come. space science is important and worth funding.

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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 01/10/2026

This is a cool photo of Venus! Photographed through the rings of Saturn.

A complex, curving pattern of lines that make up Saturn's vast ring system, in various gold and grey hues. The white arc at right is the limb of the planet itself. A tiny point of light is just upper right of centre.

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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

maybe stars are there to remind us that darkness isn’t the end of the story

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CERN @cern.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Happy birthday CERN! 🎉 #OnThisDay 72 years ago, CERN officially came into being, bringing together 12 founding Member States with a shared vision for science and international collaboration. Discover the story behind 72 years of science: home.cern/about/who-we...

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NASASpaceflight.com @nasaspaceflight.com · 28/09/2026

LAUNCH! Starship Flight 14 launches from Starbase Pad 2 on its first orbital mission attempt. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gDx...

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SpaceKate @spacekate.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Congratulations SpaceX on getting Starship orbital for the first time. They are deploying Starlink satellites now and already made contact with the first two. Still - a few more Raptor 3 issues that need ironing out, but not enough to mean another hard splashdown for the Super Heavy booster.

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The Planetary Society @planetarysociety.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

JAXA's Hayabusa2 flew within 400 meters (1,300 feet) of asteroid Torifune on July 5 and confirmed it's a contact binary, two lobes stuck together. Tune in to Planetary Radio to hear what it means for planetary defense. www.planetary.org/planetary-ra...

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Hayabusa2 flies by asteroid Torifune

NASA Chief Scientist for Small Body Exploration at Johnson Space Center, Paul Abell, takes us inside Hayabusa2's flyby of asteroid Torifune and the…

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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

this might look like a picture of some random rocks, but it’s actually one of the last images of asteroid dimorphos taken by the dart spacecraft just seconds before it crashed into it!!!

Close-up black-and-white image of the rocky surface of asteroid Dimorphos, covered in jagged boulders and smaller debris. The image was captured by NASA’s DART spacecraft during its final approach, just seconds before it intentionally collided with the asteroid.

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NASASpaceflight.com @nasaspaceflight.com · 25/09/2026

Join us this evening in The Flame Trench! Sawyer and Alex will update us on what’s going on ahead of Starship Flight 14, beginning around 5:00pm EDT (21:00 UTC) over on YouTube: www.youtube.com/live/la7AACD...

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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

these are cliffs on a comet that we landed a spacecraft on btw

Black-and-white view from the surface of a comet, showing rugged, dusty terrain in the foreground and a massive dark cliff-like wall rising across the upper half of the image. Bright, sunlit ridges and rocks contrast sharply with deep shadows.

High-contrast black-and-white view of a comet’s rugged surface, with a towering, steep cliff on the right and a narrow, shadowed valley below. Jagged rock formations and scattered debris are illuminated against the blackness of space.

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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

WAKE UP BABE, NEW JWST IMAGE DROPPED!!!!

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ESA Space Transport @transport.esa.int · 05/09/2026

Isar Aerospace is counting down to launch their second Spectrum rocket, the earliest possibility is tonight 5 September from 21:00 BST/22:00 CEST. www.esa.int/Enabling_Sup...

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Spectrum’s qualifying second launch

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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

with the liftoff of roman, a new era of astronomy begins now, it couldn’t be a better time to love space!!!

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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

ROMAN LAUNCHES TOMORROW!!! WHO’S EXCITED!!!

An artist’s rendition of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope.

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NASASpaceflight.com @nasaspaceflight.com · 23/08/2026

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, scheduled to launch a week from today, recently passed its Flight Readiness Review — paving the way for teams to begin final launch preparations. A recap of several pre-launch milestones and achievements ⬇️ www.nasaspaceflight.com/2026/08/roma...

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NASASpaceflight.com @nasaspaceflight.com · 08/08/2026

This Week In Spaceflight with Ryan Caton Premiering at 9:15pm EDT (01:15 UTC) over on YouTube: youtu.be/nXelO9ufSbw

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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

CURIOSITY HAS BEEN ON MARS FOR 14 YEARS!! HAPPY LANDIVERSARY CURIOSITY!!

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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

apollo 15 (1971) | artemis ii (2026)

Crescent Earth above the Moon seen from Apollo 15

Crescent Earth above the Moon seen from Artemis II.

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NASASpaceflight.com @nasaspaceflight.com · 16/07/2026

So how big is Starship? A comparison between Starship V3 and current generation, past generation of rockets and vehicles as well as the different Starship Versions. NASASpaceflight ongoing flight 13 coverage: www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrLI...

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NASASpaceflight.com @nasaspaceflight.com · 12/07/2026

SpaceX has confirmed it is targeting No Earlier Then Thursday, July 16th for the launch of Starship Flight 13. www.spacex.com/launches/sta... 📷 Ceaser G for NSF

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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

this is the surface of a comet. yes, a COMET.

Black-and-white close-up of the rocky surface of Comet 67P, showing steep, shadowed cliffs and a smoother dust-covered slope. A large boulder sits on the slope with a curved trail behind it, suggesting it moved or bounced across the comet’s surface.

Black-and-white close-up of Comet 67P’s rugged surface, showing rough cliffs, deep shadows, smooth dusty terrain, and scattered boulders. The image emphasizes the comet’s uneven, rocky landscape and dramatic contrast between sunlit areas and darkness.

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NASASpaceflight.com @nasaspaceflight.com · 30/06/2026

On its first mission since 2021, a Pegasus XL is scheduled to launch the Swift Boost Mission for NASA at 10:23 UTC tomorrow morning. The mission will use Katalyst’s LINK servicing spacecraft to raise the orbit of NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory ⬇️ www.nasaspaceflight.com/2026/06/swif...

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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

i wish more people talked about the euclid telescope. the imagery is so beautiful and incredibly detailed

This square astronomical image is divided horizontally by a waving line between a white-orange cloudscape forming a nebula along the bottom portion and a comparatively blue-purple-pink upper portion. From the nebula in the bottom half of the image, an orange cloud shaped like a horsehead sticks out. In the bottom left of the image, a white round glow is visible. The clouds from the bottom half of the image shine purple/blue light into the upper half. The top of the image shows the black expanse of space. Speckled across both portions is a starfield, showing stars of varying sizes and colours. Blue stars are younger and red stars are older.

A filamentary orange veil covers a bright region of star formation. The background is dark, stippled with stars and galaxies ranging from small bright dots to starry shapes. The foreground veil spans from upper left to the bottom right and resembles a seahorse. Bright stars light up the ‘eye’ and ‘chest’ regions of the seahorse with purple light. Within the tail, three bright spots sit in a traffic-light like formation.

A dense field of tiny stars fills this square image taken by the European Space Agency’s Euclid space telescope. The lower and central areas are dominated by bright yellow and gold colours, forming a textured background similar to fine glitter or sand. Dark brown and black patches cut irregularly through the yellow regions, like ink stains or clouds of smoke. Toward the upper left, the colours shift to purple and reddish tones, blending gently into the surrounding star field. Small blue points of light are scattered across the image.

$Thousands of stars and galaxies dot the image against a pitch-black background. Some bright stars show six diffraction spikes coming from a central light-halo. Other stars and galaxies are just tiny bright dots, like specks of paint distributed over the image. The brightest star sits in the upper left corner. In the centre of the image, the tiny bright dots are more abundant.$

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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

every day we get closer to voyager 1 reaching a distance of one light-day away from earth!!!!

Artist rendition of Voyager 1 spacecraft

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ESA Space Transport @transport.esa.int · 22/06/2026

It's time to slow down 🦥 ... and enjoy these views of the most powerful Ariane 6 rocket lifting off from the launch pad. 🎞️ @esa.int @cnes.fr Arianespace ArianeGroup #VA269

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ESA Space Transport @transport.esa.int · 19/06/2026

Up close: Ariane 6 rocket liftoff 🚀 This is what the most powerful rocket launch in European history looks – and sounds – like from just 141 metres from the launch pad, 17 June 2026. www.esa.int/Enabling_Sup...

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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

PERSEVERANCE HAS OFFICIALLY GONE THE DISTANCE OF AN ENTIRE MARATHON ON MARS!!

Self-portrait image of NASA’s Mars Perseverance rover west of the Jezero Crater rim looking forward.

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ESA Space Transport @transport.esa.int · 18/06/2026

Liftoff power! 17 June saw the debut launch of Europe's heavy-lift rocket Ariane 6 with upgraded, more powerful boosters – allowing for even more satellites to be taken to orbit in one go. www.esa.int/Enabling_Sup...

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DutchSpace @dutchspace.eurosky.social · 17/06/2026

Nice launch and booster sep. #VA269

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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

LOOK AT THIS BEAUTIFUL UNSEEN IMAGE FROM ARTEMIS II!!!

This photo of a crescent Moon and crescent Earth was taken by an Artemis II astronaut during their lunar flyby on April 6, 2026. This image captures one of the final moments before their loss of signal with Earth as the Orion spacecraft flew around the far side of the Moon, reemerging and regaining contact approximately 40 minutes later. Earth can be seen peeking behind the Moon in the distance. The illuminated regions of the Moon and Earth stand out against the blackness of space, while the rest are swallowed in shadow. Credit: NASA

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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

mars from earth | earth from mars there’s something so poetic about this

Mars appears as a small, faint, reddish star in a clear pre-dawn sky above a lake rimmed with mountains on June 5, 2026. Photo: NASA/Bill Dunford

Earth from the surface of Mars. The dark Martian landscape is visible and in the gray sky is a tiny white dot with an arrow pointing to it reading “Earth”.

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Phil PlAIt @philplait.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

I absolutely *LOVE* JWST images of nearby spiral galaxies. And when they're used to affirm and explore our understanding of how stars form in gigantic clusters? <non-ironic chef's kiss> My thoughts: badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/jwst-sees-... 🔭 🧪

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JWST sees massive stars clearing away their dusty, gaseous birth blankets

A survey of four nearby galaxies reveals important details on how these beasts are born

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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

this is a pride flag made from real nasa imagery happy pride month 🏳️‍🌈✨

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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

once you see the milky way, you’ll hate light pollution forever

The Milky Way streaking across a starry sky above the trees.

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Phil PlAIt @philplait.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Oh this cool: the Vera Rubin Observatory actually saw the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS *before* it was officially discovered. That implies it will discover more alien visitors before many of our current telescopes see them. aasnova.org/2026/05/13/i...

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Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS Through the Eyes of Rubin Observatory

During its commissioning phase, the highly anticipated Vera C. Rubin Observatory serendipitously spotted the third known interstellar object.

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Phil PlAIt @philplait.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Astronomers strike it rich with exoplanets: TEN THOUSAND new candidate alien worlds found! If confirmed they'll *more than double* the number known! badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/astronomer... 🔭 🧪

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Astronomers find over ten thousand potential new exoplanets

If confirmed, this will more than double the number known

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NASASpaceflight.com @nasaspaceflight.com · 06/05/2026

Time flies so fast. It's been a week since Falcon Heavy returned to flight. So why don't we slow things down a bit? A 120 fps slow motion replay of the Viasat- F3 launch from NSF's Sawyer Rosenstein

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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

NEW VIEW OF THE PINWHEEL GALAXY WITH DATA FROM MULTIPLE TELESCOPES!!

The image shows a luminous, face-on spiral shaped like a softly glowing cosmic pinwheel against a dark, star-speckled background. A compact white central core anchors the scene, from which broad spiral arms sweep outward in graceful arcs, filling much of the frame. These arms look textured and mottled rather than smooth, dotted with bright knots and layered colors with blue highlights, red sprinkles and purple confetti. Together, the overlapping colors give the galaxy a speckled, dynamic appearance, emphasizing both its immense scale and the active environments distributed throughout its wide, extended disk.

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ESA Space Transport @transport.esa.int · 30/04/2026

This is what the tallest European rocket looks like. With the 20-metre version of the fairing, the height of Ariane 6 with four boosters is 62 metres! Teams at Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana are doing the final checks before liftoff, set for today at 10:08-10:57 CEST (5:08-05:57 local time).

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NASASpaceflight.com @nasaspaceflight.com · 28/04/2026

Less then a month after Artemis II took to the skies and gave us all some Moon Joy, the core stage for the Artemis III SLS rocket has rolled into the Vehicle Assembly Building at the Kennedy Space Center, ending a week long journey. nsf.live/spacecoast

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NASA | ESA Space Updates @nasaupdates.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

The Hubble Space Telescope is 36 and thriving! 🥳🌌 To keep the birthday week celebrations rolling, we’re looking back at 3 of the absolute GOATs from Hubble's cosmic portfolio. These aren't just photos; they’re masterpieces. The Birthday Week Lineup: • The Sombrero Galaxy – A true classic. 1/3

NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has trained its razor-sharp eye on one of the universe's most stately and photogenic galaxies, the Sombrero galaxy, Messier 104 (M104). The galaxy's hallmark is a brilliant white, bulbous core encircled by the thick dust lanes comprising the spiral structure of the galaxy. As seen from Earth, the galaxy is tilted nearly edge-on. We view it from just six degrees north of its equatorial plane. This brilliant galaxy was named the Sombrero because of its resemblance to the broad rim and high-topped Mexican hat.

At a relatively bright magnitude of +8, M104 is just beyond the limit of naked-eye visibility and is easily seen through small telescopes. The Sombrero lies at the southern edge of the rich Virgo cluster of galaxies and is one of the most massive objects in that group, equivalent to 800 billion suns. The galaxy is 50,000 light-years across and is located 30 million light-years from Earth.

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NASA/ESA and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)

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Phil PlAIt @philplait.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Take a break from <waves vaguely> all this and let your brain soak up the amazingness of the Sombrero Galaxy, the stunning result of several cosmic collisions. [Also in this issue: will Andromeda really collide with us? The chance just went up.] badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/the-specta... 🔭 🧪

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The spectacular Sombrero galaxy

Plus: the chance of the Milky Way and Andromeda colliding just went up. Maybe.

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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

i feel like society moved on from these too quickly

$A solar eclipse, captured from a camera mounted on one of the Orion spacecraft\u2019s solar array wings during the Artemis II crew\u2019s flyby of the Moon\u2019s far side. The Moon is dark, save for a bright halo of white light surrounding it. The Orion spacecraft is in the leftmost half of the image, mostly shadowed.$ The Moon and crescent Earth from Artemis II

The Moon and crescent Earth from Artemis II

$A crescent Earth setting behind the Moon\u2019s horizon. Credit: NASA$

A full disk image of Earth, as seen from the Orion capsule. The planet is a pale blue, swirling with white clouds and glowing slightly lighter blue in place from reflected light. From about 8 to 9 o'clock, a large brown landmass is Africa, with the Iberian peninsula twinkling with lights just where the planet curves. At the 1 o'clock spot, aurora glow in a thin green glow, just barely separated from the planet's surface. Earth is set against the black of space. Credit: NASA/Reid Wiseman

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