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David Klasinc @big-whale.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Dve leti nazaj sem se na dopustu prijavil na tečaj za voditelja čolna, plačal vse, in rekel, da bom po dopustu naredil izpit. Then life happened. In zdaj vsak mesec dobim obvestilo, da se moram prijavit na plačan tečaj. In vsak mesec je anxiety mal večji. 😂

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David Klasinc @big-whale.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Tega se preveč premal ljudi zaveda.

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Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Mars2020 - Sol 1447 - WATSON - From Kevin M. Gill (kevinmgill.bsky.social) - flic.kr/p/2qSnsfC

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David Klasinc @big-whale.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Every AI generated pull request is in the quantum super position of being good and bad at the same time, until a human looks at the code. Then the wave function of the code collapses and the quality of the code is set.

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Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Centaurus A Extreme Deep Field - 130 Hours - Sep 2019 - From Rolf Wahl Olsen - flic.kr/p/2hk73QH

The Deepest View Ever Obtained of Centaurus A (NGC 5128)
New improved version with 10 hours of H-Alpha, Sep 2019
In 2013 I gathered 120 hours of data on Centaurus A, and processed the deepest image ever obtained of this magnificent galaxy showing many features and structures not revealed by amateurs before.
In Feb 2014 I released an improved version of the image with higher resolution, processed using PixInsight.
Then in 2018 I again acquired further data (for what is evidently a never-ending project…), this time in the H-Alpha wavelength. This new re-processed image incorporates the H-Alpha data in order to highlight the impressive emission structures triggered by the relativistic jet from the supermassive central black hole. It also emphasises the many pink hydrogen clouds in the dark dust lane across the centre of the galaxy, and lastly I feel the image showcases the concentric shells and rich background slightly better, while keeping a reasonably subtle natural look.

About the Image
This image is the realisation of a long time dream of mine: Taking a deep sky image with more than 100 hours of exposure.
I set out on this mission in early 2013 and after having gathered 130 hours of data on 46 different nights in 2013 and 2018 I present what I believe is the deepest view ever obtained of Centaurus A. This is likely also the deepest image ever taken with amateur equipment, showing stars as faint as magnitude 25.45.
I spent around 40 hours and analysing processing the data...

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Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

CASSINI SATURN (6) - From Jacint Roger (landru79.bsky.social) - flic.kr/p/2iKXST1

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David Klasinc @big-whale.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Today reading some of the online publications is horrible even with ad blockers. Six ads and four lines of text.

Screenshot of an article on a website, showing four lines of text and six ads placed on the screen.

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Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Opportunity (58) - From Jacint Roger (landru79.bsky.social) - flic.kr/p/2iKYaCp

Opportunity MARS

NASA / JPL-Caltech / Cornell / j. Roger

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Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The Central Jet of Messier 87 - From Rolf Wahl Olsen - flic.kr/p/2ouAYiU

www.rolfolsenastrophotography.com/Astrophotography/Galaxi...

This deep image shows the giant elliptical galaxy Messier 87, surrounded by over 1,300 of its globular clusters and with the famous central jet; a powerful stream of material that is ejected from the galaxy's supermassive black hole.

The image is a crop of the full image, with inserts from Hubble Space Telescope and the EHT Collaboration.

The central jet of M87 is one of the most spectacular astrophysical phenomena in the universe. It extends more than 5,000 light-years from the galaxy's core and emits intense radiation across the electromagnetic spectrum, from radio waves to gamma rays. The jet is powered by the accretion of matter onto the supermassive black hole, which has a mass of approximately 6.5 billion times that of the Sun.
On April 10, 2019, the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration released the first-ever image of the shadow of a black hole. The target was the supermassive black hole at the center of M87. By comparing the observed size of the black hole's shadow to models of black hole accretion and spacetime geometry, astronomers have been able to estimate the mass of the black hole to be around 6.5 billion times that of the Sun. This makes it one of the most massive black holes known.

Messier 87 is a giant elliptical galaxy located in the Virgo galaxy cluster, approximately 55 million light-years away from Earth. It is a massive elliptical galaxy, with a diameter of around 120,000 light-y...

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Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

July 1 Titan Monitoring Campaign Observation - From Val Klavans (valklavans.bsky.social) - flic.kr/p/cqjKMs

RGB Color Composite of Titan and Saturn

These images were taken on July 01, 2012 and received on Earth July 02, 2012. The camera was pointing toward TITAN at approximately 1,724,144 miles (2,774,741 kilometers) away, and the images were taken using the CL1, RED, GRN, BL1, and CL2 filters.

Credit: NASA / JPL / SSI / composite by Val Klavans

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Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

NGC 6578 - From Judy Schmidt (geckzilla.bsky.social) - flic.kr/p/ghtQfo

A mosquito pestered me while I worked on this one. Winter, come and freeze the mosquitoes.

Red: f658n
Green: f555w+f656n
Blue: f502n

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David Klasinc @big-whale.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Dejansko v tem momentu ni pomembno a se Luka ali pa katerikoli drugi politik drogira in koliko se drogira, ce se. Pomembno je kaj dobrega je do sedaj naredila vlada in kaj so referendumska vprašanja.

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David Klasinc @big-whale.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Zadet Luka, ki pove po resnici, je boljša opcija kot Janez, ki gaslighta.

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Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Up close and personal with the haze - From Val Klavans (valklavans.bsky.social) - flic.kr/p/e9Y7x6

This is an approximate true color image of Titan's haze layers, taken by Cassini's Imaging Science Subsystem during Cassini's 91st encounter with Titan on April 5, 2013. Titan's upper haze layers appear blue, while its main atmospheric haze appear orange in this view. The difference in color is most likely due to particle size rather than composition. The blue haze probably consists of smaller particles than the orange haze.

These images was taken on April 05, 2013 and received on Earth April 07, 2013. The camera was pointing toward TITAN at approximately 106,378 miles (171,198 kilometers) away, and the images were taken using the BL1, GRN, CB1, CL1 and CL2 filters.

Credit: NASA / JPL / SSI / composite by Val Klavans
titansaturnsmoon.wordpress.com

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Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

IRAS 10082-5647 - From Judy Schmidt (geckzilla.bsky.social) - flic.kr/p/nZk5Mn

Whoops! I try to focus on the pictures which haven't already been featured at spacetelescope.org or hubblesite.com but this one slipped past. I assumed it hadn't been done and then did a search to try and figure out what it was and realized that it had been. Oh well, this is my version. It's not terribly different from ESA's version, though. It's a great picture so it can't really be featured too much. Still plowing through the datasets from proposal 10536 but getting close to done.

Red: ACS/WFC F814W
Green: Pseudo
Blue: ACS/WFC F606W

North is NOT up. It is 158.86° counter-clockwise from up.

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Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Mars Nasa’s Perseverance Panorama from SOL 3 - From Andrea Luck (andrealuck.bsky.social) - flic.kr/p/2kELATd

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Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The Lagoon Nebula from Sydney - From Ángel López-Sánchez - flic.kr/p/2jzxued

Test image of the Lagoon Nebula (M8) with the first light of my new ZWO ASI1600MM Pro camera and broad-band filters.

This image combines:

- 39 x 120s H-alpha (Baader 3.5nm ultra-narrow filter), in red. Darks and flats included.
- 40 x 15s OPTOLONG L-Pro filter, in green. No flat or darks.
- 56 x 6s ZWO B filter, in blue, no flat or dark.

H-alpha data taken on 21st Aug 2020, L-Pro and B data taken on 23rd Aug 2020, from my backyard at home, 15 km North from Sydney's city center.

Telescope: Skywatcher Black Diamond 80, f=600mm (f/7.5)

Equipment: I used the ZWO ASIAir to control the camera, the mount (Skywatcher AZ-EQ6) and the guiding system (ASI120MM + Orion 50mm finderscope). ZWO filter drawer for changing filter.

Processing: Data processed with Siril software. FITS converted on TIFF using NASA's Fits Liberator considering a logarithmic function. Color / saturation / levels / contrast / smart sharpen with Photoshop.

Credit: Ángel R. López-Sánchez (AAO-MQ).

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Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Deep View of Peculiar Galaxy Pair Arp 171 - From Rolf Wahl Olsen - flic.kr/p/2o5JC4q

This very deep exposure shows the rarely imaged interacting galaxy pair Arp 171.
The pair consists of the lenticular (S0) galaxies NGC5718 and IC1042, and lie at the heart of a galaxy cluster 400 million light years away towards the constellation Virgo.
The galaxies were discovered by William Herschel in 1786 and later classified in Halton Arp's Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies under the category 'galaxies with diffuse counter-tails'. While Arp only saw the bright central core regions, this long exposure reveals the full extent of the tidal streams and shells of stars that have been flung far outwards from the merging cores.
These extended structures form when the cores of merging galaxies orbit around their common centre of mass in an ever tighter orbit while disrupting the halos of both galaxies and sending billions of stars into eccentric orbits. The halos of this pair of merging galaxies appear somewhat diffuse but the process can give rise to outward traveling density waves in the form of very distinct shells, such as those in NGC3923, until the collision eventually settles as one single large galaxy.
Several smaller members of the cluster can be seen around the merging galaxy pair, and in the background numerous other more distant galaxies can be seen. Near the top edge of the image lies a very distant galaxy cluster, visibly reddened by the cosmological redshift at very large distances.
Draped across the view is a thin veil of wispy filaments; ghostly structures that are...

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Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Partial Solar Eclipse 2024-04-08 - From Ryan Kinnett (rkinnett.bsky.social) - flic.kr/p/2pJaDVj

Imaged from La Crescenta, California with a Daystar Quark Chromosphere hydrogen-alpha filter, an Orion 60mm guide scope, and ZWO asi1600mm.

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Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

kepler - From Jacint Roger (landru79.bsky.social) - flic.kr/p/2sxPzNT

James Webb Space Telescope JWST

Kepler Supernova Remnant: New fundamental Insights into Type Ia Supernova Explosions

Observed: 2025-08-27
PI: Milisavljevic, Dan.
MIRI 2500 2100 1800 1280 770

NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI/j. Roger

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David Klasinc @big-whale.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Highlight of the evening is prof. Brian Cox having a Close Encounters of the Third Kind moment on the keytar. 🤣😊

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Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

0819MH0003570010301533C00_DXXX - From 2di7 & titanio44 - flic.kr/p/pV51Uz

"Courtesy NASA/JPL-Caltech" processing 2di7 & titanio44

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Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Ingenuity, Flight 15 - sol 254 - From Thomas Appéré (thomasappere.bsky.social) - flic.kr/p/2mKyZgs

Picture taken by RTE camera aboard Ingenuity helicopter on sol 254 (November 6th, 2021) at 12:04:20 pm Martian local time.

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David Klasinc @big-whale.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Alkohole v šole! Hik, hik, hura!

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Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Barnard's Galaxy Deep Field - 29.5 Hours - From Rolf Wahl Olsen - flic.kr/p/23av3gA

This image shows a deep view of Barnard's Galaxy (NGC 6822), an irregular dwarf galaxy that is one of the nearest neighbours to our Milky Way. This galaxy was discovered by astronomer Edward E. Barnard in 1884 and is located about 1.6 million light years away in the constellation Sagittarius. Despite boasting a meagre 10 million stars, and extending only one tenth the size of our Milky Way, NGC 6822 contains a full menagerie of hot red star forming HII regions, planetary nebulae, bright OB associations and dark clouds.

In 1925 the famous astronomer Edwin Hubble published his paper 'N.G.C. 6822, A Remote Stellar System' which was a detailed survey of this galaxy. Apart from describing five of its brightest HII regions Hubble also discovered 11 Cehepid variables in NGC 6822. This was one of the most important discoveries in galactic astronomy and enabled NGC 6822 to be the first galaxy beyond the Magellanic Clouds to have its distance measured and in turn greatly expanded the size of the known Universe at the time.

NGC 6822 is a challenging galaxy to photograph since it has a very low surface brightness. But still many of its brightest stars are resolved together with the various star forming regions and blue OB associations.

Also visible throughout this image is a thin veil of wispy filaments, similar to high altitude fair weather clouds. These ghostly structures are now known as galactic cirrus, or Integrated Flux Nebula (IFN). Only a few decades ago such structures ...

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David Klasinc @big-whale.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

A če se v avto usedeš si pol usedlina?

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David Klasinc @big-whale.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

V ambulanti sem naročen ob 9:31. Zlo specifično natančno. 😂

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Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Space Station Flyover of Hurricane Matthew - From NASA Marshall Space Flight Center - flic.kr/p/MMZDtA

The International Space Station has tracked Hurricane Matthew all week, providing images and video from low Earth orbit as the storm hit the Caribbean Sea and made its way towards Florida. In this photograph taken by Expedition 49 Flight Engineer Kate Rubins on Oct. 4, 2016, at 21:05 GMT, the hurricane's clouds extend across the frame and the space station's solar arrays are visible at the upper-right corner of the image. As the hurricane strengthens and approaches the Florida coast, NASA and NOAA satellites continue to provide forecasters and scientists valuable data on the development and changes in the storm.

For more information about Hurricane Matthew, click here.

NASA Media Usage Guidelines

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I resigned from ExxonMobil today. I spent the last three years doing fossil fuel extraction research at both BP and ExxonMobil. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing to maximize extraction while the window to act closes, and gambling with our lives. More below.

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Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Mrk 3 HST+Chandra - From Judy Schmidt (geckzilla.bsky.social) - flic.kr/p/24D8qNf

The active galactic nucleus (AGN) of Mrk 3 in visible HST and x-ray light from Chandra.

An HST-only version is available here.

Data from the following proposals were used to create this image:
Extragalactic Diffuse Emission and Surveys
Subarcsecond Structure in Nearby AGNs
A Survey of Mid-UV Morphology of Nearby Galaxies: Galaxy Structure and Faint Galaxy Evolution

A single pointing in 2012 from the CHEERS survey was used to create the x-ray overlay.

Violet/Magenta overlay: Chandra ACIS .3-7 keV
Red: WFPC2 / WF F814W
Green: Pseudo
Blue: WFPC3 / PC F606W

North is up.

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Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

GRB250314A - From Jacint Roger (landru79.bsky.social) - flic.kr/p/2sopbUd

James Webb Space Telescope JWST

A supernova at z=7.3

GRB250314A
DATE-OBS: 2026-07-08
PI: Levan, Andrew James.
NIRCAM 444 410 356 277 200 150 115 090

NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI/j. Roger

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Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Orion Launch - From Jason Major (jpmajor.bsky.social) - flic.kr/p/poK3W3

From the NASA Social for the EFT-1 launch on Dec. 3-5, 2014.

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Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The Relativistic Jet of Quasar 3C 273 - From Rolf Wahl Olsen - flic.kr/p/2neFEQV

$The bright quasar 3C 273 has a large jet that is visible in optical light, extending some 200,000 light years from the quasar itself. At 3C 273's great distance of over 2 billion light years the jet appears only 23 arc-seconds long in the sky, extending towards the SW. To the left is a comparison with an image form the Hubble Space Telescope, showing the jet in high resolution and revealing its detailed structure. Click here to see the spectrum of 3C 273 captured with a simple diffraction grating, and its red-shift and distance calculated using the Hydrogen emission lines. Image details: Date: 10th April 2022 Exposure: Luminance 24x300s, 2 hours @ -25C Telescope: Homebuilt 12.5" f/4 Serrurier Truss Newtonian Camera: QSI 683wsg with Lodestar guider Filters: Astrodon LRGB E-Series Gen 2 Taken from my observatory in Auckland, New Zealand$

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Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

IC 3568 "Lemon Slice" - From Judy Schmidt (geckzilla.bsky.social) - flic.kr/p/geyP1g

Do perfection and simplicity belong together in a harmonious marriage? IC 3568 is the planetary nebula representation of this idea. The simplicity of its form begets the perfection of its spherical shape.

I'm not sure when it gained the name Lemon Slice Nebula but the most common image of this nebula is processed to look fluorescent lime green so that may have had something to do with it. Mine is blue to more closely match the processing I've done with the others. Keeping the OIII emissions (which this one shines so brightly in) solely in the blue channel leaves it a bit dark though so I let it spread to the green channel a little as well to brighten the image.

Red: hst_06119_50_wfpc2_f814w_pc_sci + hst_08390_15_wfpc2_f658n_pc_sci
Green: hst_08390_15_wfpc2_f555w_pc_sci
Blue: hst_08390_15_wfpc2_f502n_pc_sci

North is up.

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Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Saturn Ring Particles - From Judy Schmidt (geckzilla.bsky.social) - flic.kr/p/QL9DSk

These things always have a way of looking vaguely wrong. We don't know what Saturn's rings look like up close, though they are simple to describe. This section is comprised of meter-sized blocks of pure water ice. We do know what water ice looks like, but how does it go from block of ice to the intricate ring system of Saturn?

Perhaps one day we will find out, but for now all we have is art. I doubt mine will be any closer to the truth. If we do ever get pictures, we can compare all the depictions and see who was closest.

Future travelers should avoid passing too close to the rings. There are many depictions of the asteroid belt in science fiction movies looking something like this. In reality, the asteroid belt is almost entirely empty space which makes it a lot safer than Saturn's rings.

There is a chance that the Cassini spacecraft could strike one of these particles during the final phase of its mission, but the scientists are very good at their jobs and made sure to minimize the risk so that all continues as planned. It's certainly not traveling anywhere near the larger pieces, but even a very tiny one could really do some damage. Cassini's mission will end this September, and a lot of people will cry. I might be one of them.

I used a particle system in Blender to create a basic image and then did some digital painting to make it look a little less like a 3D render.

This was guest blogged over at The Planetary Society: www.planetary.org/blogs/guest-blogs/2017/1...

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Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Into the Depths of the Trifid Nebula - From Rolf Wahl Olsen - flic.kr/p/cpST6C

This image shows the famous Trifid nebula in Sagittarius, also known as Messier 20 or NGC 6514. This particular nebula is a classic favourite among both visual and photographic observers due to its bright and colourful appearance. The complex cloud displays an unusual combination of both red emission and blue reflection areas as well as numerous intricate dark patterns. The nebula is located 9000 light years away in the direction of the Milky Way centre. The entire area is sprinkled with thousands of stars and fainter dusty and nebulous areas throughout. Another dark cloud shows up silhouetted against the starry background to the left of the Trifid.

Near the top of the Trifid itself a curious example of gas evaporation can be seen. A dense stalk, 8 light years from the central cluster, is emerging from the edge of the bubble surrounding the central cluster, and in the other direction a powerful stellar jet from a young star, HH 399 embedded in the gas, is shooting out in a direction towards the bottom right. The bright young stars in the central cluster emit strong radiation which eats away the surrounding gas and dust. The stalk only appears because a denser region lies at its very tip and protects a thin strip of the cloud from this interstellar erosion. The Hubble Space Telescope has imaged this fascinating area in high resolution. Also, the proper motion of the irradiated plasma in this jet has been measured and an interesting paper has been published detailing these ...

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Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Rings and shadows - From Val Klavans (valklavans.bsky.social) - flic.kr/p/cZN43G

RGB color composite of Saturn from Rev171.

These images were taken on August 25, 2012 and received on Earth August 26, 2012. The camera was pointing toward SATURN at approximately 1,560,538 miles (2,511,443 kilometers) away, and the image was taken using the CL1, GRN, VIO and RED filters. Hi pass filtering with some color adjustment were done to highlight cloud layers and approximate true color.

Credit: NASA / JPL / SSI / composite by Val Klavans

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Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Looking west - sol 636 - From Thomas Appéré (thomasappere.bsky.social) - flic.kr/p/nHCNVE

Panorama taken on sol 636 with MastCam 34mm at 13h30 local time.

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Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Type-I Supernova SN 2025rbs in NGC-7331 - From Ryan Kinnett (rkinnett.bsky.social) - flic.kr/p/2rBK6rh

Imaged using the Carroll 30" f/6 telescope at Stony Ridge Observatory with asi2400mc camera.

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Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

James #Webb Space Telescope Stellar Populations and the Interstellar Medium Initial mass function in the lowest metallicity protocluster in the Galaxy - From Jacint Roger (landru79.bsky.social) - flic.kr/p/2paZywk