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Habu @flyinghabu.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

These nights I’m running four projects in parallel that require many hours of acquisition, so I’m piling up gigabytes of data, but for now I haven’t started processing any of it yet. So, to kill time, I’m reprocessing some images from last summer, like the Trifid Nebula (M20). 🔭 #Astrophotography

The Trifid nebula taken from my terrace last summer.

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Arp Bot 🤖 @arpbot.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

Image of Arp 282, also known as NGC 169 and NGC 169A, from Halton Arp's Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies (1966). In the original catalog it was in the category: Double and multiple galaxies - Infall and attraction. Tidal streams visibly link the pair. Source

A grainy, black and white image of a large spiral galaxy is seen in the center of the frame. It's tilted at an angle, so that it's disk appears as an oval rather than a circle. The long axis of the oval is nearly vertical. Dramatic dark dust lanes cross in front of the center of the galaxy. To the right of the spiral is a smaller disk galaxy. It appears to be at almost a right angle to the large spiral. It is overexposed and no details are seen in the center of the galaxy. The two galaxies are connected by a bridge of material. A few white dots, which are stars, are seen on the black background.

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All the Galaxies! @allthegalaxies.galaxyzoo.org · 29/12/2025

A spiral galaxy, observed with the Hubble Space Telescope in the COSMOS survey. It is at redshift 0.80 (lookback time 7.04 billion years) with coordinates (150.68096, 2.81689). 50 volunteers classified this galaxy in Galaxy Zoo: Hubble.

A spiral galaxy from the Galaxy Zoo: Hubble project, classified by 50 volunteers.

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All the Galaxies! @allthegalaxies.galaxyzoo.org · 29/12/2025

A smooth galaxy, observed with the Hubble Space Telescope in the COSMOS survey. It is at redshift 0.90 (lookback time 7.52 billion years) with coordinates (150.17674, 2.58088). 43 volunteers classified this galaxy in Galaxy Zoo: Hubble.

A smooth galaxy from the Galaxy Zoo: Hubble project, classified by 43 volunteers.

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All the Galaxies! @allthegalaxies.galaxyzoo.org · 29/12/2025

An irregular galaxy, observed with the Hubble Space Telescope in the COSMOS survey. It is at redshift 0.33 (lookback time 3.82 billion years) with coordinates (150.30358, 2.18741). 42 volunteers classified this galaxy in Galaxy Zoo: Hubble.

A irregular galaxy from the Galaxy Zoo: Hubble project, classified by 42 volunteers.

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Universal-Sci @universal-sci.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

Fascinating: SNR 0454-67.2, a supernova remnant in the LMC. Likely born from a Type Ia explosion, it features red filaments amid dark clouds. Such supernovae shine with consistent brightness, making them vital “standard candles” for gauging cosmic distances. (Credit: ESA/Hubble, NASA)

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Jwst Feed @jwstfeed.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Beautiful NGC 3147. Processed JWST/NIRCam data by @thocarp.bsky.social www.flickr.com/photos/19746...

This is a high-resolution infrared image of NGC 3147, a face-on spiral galaxy. The galaxy has tightly wound spiral arms speckled with star formation regions, radiating from a prominent, bright central bulge. The image, captured by the James Webb Space Telescope's NIRCam instrument, reveals intricate details, including dark dust lanes and bright star clusters within the spiral arms.

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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

NEW HUBBLE IMAGE OF THE VEIL NEBULA AND IT’S GORGEOUS!!! 🌌✨

A colourful, glowing nebula that reaches beyond the top and bottom of the image. It is made of translucent clouds of gas: wispy and thin with hard edges in some places, and puffy and opaque in others. Blue, red and yellow colours mix together, showing light emitted by different types of atoms in the hot gas. Bright and pointlike stars are scattered across the nebula. The background is black.

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Space VFX @spacevfx.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Cradle of Creation – A celestial vista of a planetary nebula with a bright white dwarf star at its core. Expanding shock waves, dust formations, and glowing plasma reveal stellar evolution in the final stages of a sun-like star’s life cycle.

A stunning image of a planetary nebula with a bright central white dwarf star. The nebula exhibits a glowing, multi-layered structure with an intense inner ring of ionized gas, appearing white and blue, surrounded by an expansive halo of golden-hued filaments. The outer shell is composed of expelled stellar material, illuminated by ultraviolet radiation from the dying star at its core. Numerous distant stars are scattered throughout the background, enhancing the cosmic scenery. The image captures intricate details of the nebula’s expanding shock waves, dust formations, and glowing plasma, indicative of stellar evolution and the final stages of a sun-like star’s life cycle.

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It's The Pleiades @itsthepleiades.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Webb’s MIRI captures Arp 107, revealing a supermassive black hole shaping the spiral galaxy. Young stars shine blue, forming in clouds of dusty silicates creating intricate patterns. Image Credit: #NASA, #ESA, CSA, STScI 🔭 #Space #Astronomy

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𝓣𝓱𝓸𝓶𝓪𝓼 @audiomite.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

In a galaxy far far away.........

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Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

NGC 247 with the 2.5m INT - From Ángel López-Sánchez - flic.kr/p/2kDR8cf

NGC 247 is a small spiral galaxy about 11.1 million light years away in the constellation Cetus. It belongs to the Sculptor galaxy group.

This image shows plenty of star-forming regions (in red colours) and young star-clusters (in blue-white), as well as a central region with dominant old stars (yellow colours).

Image obtained using the 2.5m Isaac Newton Telescope (Obs. Roque de los Muchachos, La Palma, Spain). We used the Wide Field Camera (WFC) and filters B (blue) R (green) and H-alpha (red). Observations were conducted in October 2006. The data were reprocessed in February 2021.

Credit: Ángel R. López-Sánchez (AAO-MQ), Adal Mesa-Delgado, Sergio Simón-Díaz (IAC) and Bärbel Koribalski (CSIRO).

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All the Galaxies! @allthegalaxies.galaxyzoo.org · 13/02/2025

A spiral galaxy, observed with the Apache Point 2.5m Telescope in the SDSS survey. It is at redshift 0.028 (lookback time 397.0 million years) with coordinates (167.23819, 26.59614). 45 volunteers classified this galaxy in Galaxy Zoo 2.

A spiral galaxy from the Galaxy Zoo 2 project, classified by 45 volunteers.

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Was it the Chad? @adisruptivekid.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

👀 Don’t forget to look up…

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Rose in the Woods ❌👑 @roseinthewoods.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Sending love and healing to all the families who have lost loved ones in the plane tragedy yesterday.

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Clay Ennis Astrophotography @clayennisastro.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Bodes Galaxy was one of the first galaxies that I imaged when I first started my journey into #astrophotography nearly three years ago. This is the first time that I have actually achieved an image that I really like. I hope you like it too! #astronomy @kat-astro-bot.bsky.social

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All the Galaxies! @allthegalaxies.galaxyzoo.org · 31/01/2025

A spiral galaxy, observed with the Apache Point 2.5m Telescope in the SDSS survey. It is at redshift 0.039 (lookback time 549.7 million years) with coordinates (236.50760, 5.13703). 33 volunteers classified this galaxy in Galaxy Zoo 2.

A spiral galaxy from the Galaxy Zoo 2 project, classified by 33 volunteers.

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Jwst Feed @jwstfeed.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

High quality image of one of the heaviest and most luminous stars in the known universe (Hubble). Processing: Judy Schimdt. www.flickr.com/photos/geckz... 🔭 🧪

This Hubble Space Telescope image showcases WR 124, a Wolf-Rayet star, enveloped by a luminous nebula. The brilliant central star illuminates the surrounding material, creating a vibrant orange glow punctuated by dark, wispy patches of dust and gas. This nebula, formed by the powerful stellar winds ejected from WR 124, reveals the star's dynamic interaction with its environment. The image captures the complex structure and turbulent nature of the nebula, highlighting the distinct features of this massive, evolved star against the backdrop of a dark cosmos speckled with distant stars.

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Astro Fyfe @astrofyfe.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

I spent another 2 nights on the Pleiades over the past couple nights and was able to pull some fainter dust lanes over my previous attempt! The 7 sisters are so majestic 😍 Total time: 14hrs Scope: AT72edii Mount: Sky Watcher Eq6-R Pro Camera: ZWO ASI533mc Pro #astrophotography #astronomy

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Space VFX @spacevfx.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Supermassive black hole’s event horizon, dark center with bright, glowing accretion disk of spiraling gas and dust. Filamentary patterns, stars fill the cosmic background, highlighting gravity’s light-bending vortex within the galaxy. Visuals by @venusianchron.bsky.social ✨Space is Art

A stunning depiction of a supermassive black hole at the center of a galaxy. The image showcases the black hole's event horizon, a dark circular region, surrounded by an accretion disk of matter spiraling inward, glowing intensely due to extreme gravitational forces and friction heating up the gas and dust. The accretion disk appears as a bright, elliptical ring around the black hole, with intricate structures of gas and dust forming filamentary patterns. The background is filled with countless stars, adding to the cosmic tapestry, while the overall scene is enveloped in a dark, star-studded space, emphasizing the vastness of the universe. This visualization highlights the immense gravitational pull of the black hole, bending light and matter into a mesmerizing vortex.

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AltYellostoneNatPar @altyellonatpark.org · 29/01/2025

A rare cartwheel galaxy PGC-2248 Photo credit James Webb Space Telescope Constellation Sculptor Discovered 1941 by Fritz Zwicky Distance 500 light years Once a normal spiral galaxy it collided perfectly (bulls eye) with another galaxy who's shock wave created this unique structure.

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Richard @rvmrn69.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Goodnight my

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SubRosa )✿( Magick (chat to book a reading) @subrosamagick.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

"Pleiades last night, shot as a mosaic for wider field, 150 minutes of integration on Bortle 4 skies. DeNoised in the Seestar app then lightly edited in Lightroom. I've been using this scope for a week and love it!" Ralph Ceseña

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Debra's Astrophotography @debraceravolo.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

A long ago collision of two galaxies stirred up this far off star system called the Black Eye Galaxy (M64) and resulted in all this dark galactic dust obscuring the active starburst core. I photographed this using a 16 inch vintage telescope and modern ccd camera #astrophotography #space #galaxies

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urmymuse @urmymuse.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

The California nebula in Perseus. Just over ten hours of narrow band data shot from Spain in Sept 23, using the Redcat51. The hydrogen gas in the nebula is glowing due to the energy from the nearby star Menkib. #Astronomy #Astrophotography

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Diego Dompe @dompe.space · 26/01/2025

Almost 6h of data on the Horsehead nebula with the C11 w reducer. 🔭 #Astrophotography

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Jwst Feed @jwstfeed.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

NGC 2024 (Flame Nebula) by NIRCam. Processed by @thocarp.bsky.social www.flickr.com/photos/19746... 🔭 🧪

The Flame Nebula, captured by the NIRCam instrument, reveals a celestial tapestry of interstellar gas and dust. A prominent plume of gas, tinged with a deep blue, dominates the image, while surrounding clouds shimmer in shades of pink and purple.

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Thomas Spooks 🎃👻💀 @thomasfuchs.at · 27/01/2025

Photon catch from last year, from my driveway. The Eagle Nebula and the Pillars of Creation. 🔭🧪 #astrophotography

A red blue space nebula, with a central structure that looks a bit like an outstretched hand

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Astronomy 🔭 @astronomy.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

The Boomerang Nebula is a cloud of dust and gas that's the coldest natural place in the universe. It's located in the constellation Centaurus, about 5,000 light-years from Earth. Credit: ALMA/NASA/ESA/Hubble/NRAO/AUI/NSF

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Richard @rvmrn69.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Goodnight everyone

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Craig McGowan @craigmcg.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

One Headlight. Shooting the Milky Way and having composed this image, a vehicle emerged from the fog-laden valley below. Initially annoyed, I was to delete this file. But this image has become my favourite from that night's shoot. Take-away, don't delete files in camera. #photography #milkyway

Image title - One Headlight.
Milky-way over snow capped mountain night scene, interrupted by car driving out of the fog laden valley below.

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Nereide @drnereide.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

🧵 1/ For those who missed it, this is the stunning image from Webb's NIRCam showing NGC 604, a star-forming region located around 2.73 Mly away in the Triangulum galaxy (M33). Source and more➡️ science.nasa.gov/missions/web... Credits: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI 🔭 🧪 #extragalactic #NASAWebb #JWST

This is an image from JWST’s NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera). It features the star-forming region NGC 604 and shows how stellar winds from bright, hot, young stars carve out cavities in surrounding gas and dust. The most noticeable features are tendrils and clumps of emission that appear bright red, extending out from areas that look like clearings, or large bubbles in the nebula.

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Zaid Mir @zaidmir.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

Cassiopeia A.🔭 Credits: X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO; Optical: NASA/ESA/STScI; IR: NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI; NASA/JPL/CalTech; Image Processing: NASA/CXC/SAO; NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI

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Kat @quantumkat.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Flaming Star Nebula (IC 405) A runaway star, ejected from its original system, traveling alone through space and illuminating a gas cloud spanning 5 light-years across. 📸 Capture Details: Telescope: Newton 130/900 Camera: Sony A7S @kat-astro-bot.bsky.social pleasing perform astrometry.

Astrophotography image of the Flaming Star Nebula (IC 405), a combination of emission and reflection nebula located in the constellation Auriga.

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Dr. Amber Straughn (she/her) @astraughnomer.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

It’s strange how utter destruction can be so stunningly beautiful. Why do we find these images beautiful? Perhaps it’s because deep down we recognize that these are our origins. Stars had to explode to give rise to us ✨ Today’s #apod: apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap25010... 📸: Stéphane Vetter

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Clay Ennis Astrophotography @clayennisastro.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

The Leo Triplet (also known as the M66 Group) is a small group of galaxies about 35 million light-years away in the constellation Leo. This galaxy group consists of the spiral galaxies M65, M66, and NGC 3628. #astronomy #astrophotography @kat-astro-bot.bsky.social

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Universal-Sci @universal-sci.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

A breathtaking view of the globular cluster Terzan 4, a dense collection of stars bound together by their mutual gravitational pull, containing millions of individual stars. (Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, R. Cohen)

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Steven @mrrat.com · 28/12/2024

Elephant Trunk Nebula #astrophotography

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Karthik @karthikna.com · 27/12/2024

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope NASA Missions Spot Cosmic 'Wreath' Displaying Stellar Circle of Life

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Richard @rvmrn69.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

Goodnight everyone Tulip nebula

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galaxylover.bsky.social @galaxylover.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

A breathtaking view of the Vela Supernova Remnant, a vibrant nebula of gas filaments from a star explosion about 11,000 years ago! (Credit: CTIO/NOIRLab/DOE/NSF/AURA / T.A. Rector, M. Zamani & D. de Martin)

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