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Euclid UK @eucliduk.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Miss the release of the latest research and images from #Euclid? Grab the popcorn and catch up with this explainer video from our very own @cosmochris.bsky.social! 🎬🍿 ⬇️

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Everything that the Euclid Space Telescope Just Revealed!

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Chris Pattison @cosmochris.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Perseid Meteor Shower PEAKS TONIGHT! There should be quite a few shooting stars that are quite easy to spot, and it will be even if you can find a nice dark spot! Stay safe team, and clear skies to you all! youtu.be/J9b8cdsBZIs #perseids2025 #perseidmeteorshower

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How to Actually See the Perseid Meteor Shower!

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NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory @rubinobservatory.org · 23/06/2025

Introducing...your sneak peek at the cosmos captured by NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory! Can you guess these regions of sky? This is just a small peek...join us at 11am US EDT for your full First Look at how Rubin will #CaptureTheCosmos! 🔭🧪 #RubinFirstLook ls.st/rubin-first-look-livestream

A sprawling, textured field of galaxies scattered across the deep black of space. It is filled with the delicate smudges and glowing cores of galaxies of many shapes, sizes and colors, as well as the bright multi-colored points of stars. The image focuses on a collection of interacting galaxies connected by delicate streams of stars. At top center lies a large elliptical galaxy that is dense and smooth, like a polished stone glowing with golden light. Like delicate spider silk or stretched taffy, these stellar bridges link the large elliptical to the few larger galaxies beneath, evidence of past collisions.

All throughout the image, thousands of galaxies gather in clusters or are spread throughout, like glittering gems strewn on a table. Some are sharp-edged and spiral, like coiled ribbons; others round and diffuse, like polished pebbles. Still others are just smudges of various colors against the black of space. The background is peppered with pinpoint stars in reds, yellows, and blues, crisp against the velvet black.

A cosmic tapestry of glowing tan and pink gas clouds with dark dust lanes. In the upper right, the Trifid Nebula resembles a small flower in space. Its soft, pinkish gas petals are surrounded by blue gas, and streaked with dark, finger-like veins of dust that divide it into three parts. It radiates a gentle, misty glow, diffuse and soft like the warmth of breath on a cold hand. To the lower left, the much larger Lagoon Nebula stretches wide like a churning sea of magenta gas, with bright blue, knotted clumps sprinkled throughout where new stars are born. Both nebulae are embedded in a soft tan backdrop of gas that is brighter on the left than on the right, etched with dark tendrils of dust and sprinkled with the pinpricks of millions of stars.

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NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory @rubinobservatory.org · 23/05/2025

🚨 SAVE THE DATE: The world's First Look at images from NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory is coming June 23, 2025! 🔭🧪 Get ready for a preview of how Rubin will soon #CaptureTheCosmos in its decade-long survey 🌌 More details soon—stay up to date at rubinobservatory.org/news/rubin-first-look

Save-the-date graphic for the worldwide "First Look" at Rubin Observatory first revealed images. Text reads, "Save the date! June 23, 2025. NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory First Look"

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Chris Pattison @cosmochris.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Do you love space and hot drinks? Or know someone who does? Well, we're selling some merch for the first time, including mugs! The art is all done by my friend Elena, and it's AMAZING! Check out all the products here (they ship to most places!): chris-pattison-shop.fourthwall.com/collections/...

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Chris Pattison @cosmochris.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Does anyone know how fast the Earth moves relative to JWST? Specifically, in theory, could JWST track Earth, or would it be moving too fast? Thanks!

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Euclid UK @eucliduk.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Astrophysicist, YouTuber and UK #HumanOfEuclid @cosmochris.bsky.social has made a great explainer video talking through today’s new Deep Field images. Check it out here. ⬇️

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FIRST SURVEY FROM EUCLID SPACE TELESCOPE RELEASED! | Incredible New Deep Field Images!

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Chris Pattison @cosmochris.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

🌌 FRIDAY SPACE🌌 Hubble hits a cosmic bullseye!🎯 This enormous galaxy is called LEDA 1313424. It features a stunning 9 star-filled rings and an arrow through the centre! Beautiful! 🤩 Read more: buff.ly/4hsXm1t

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Chris Pattison @cosmochris.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

🌌 Monday Space!⭐ A quasar imaged by Hubble!🤩 In the centre we have a supermassive black hole with a bright disk around it, and a newborn jet blasting out from it! Read more: buff.ly/42tNek9

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Chris Pattison @cosmochris.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

🌌Friday Space! 🌌 A bright double star cluster inside the Large Magellanic Cloud (a satellite dwarf galaxy just outside the Milky Way). This is NGC 1850, and it's contents include a black hole that has a mass 11 times larger than our Sun! Also, it's beautiful! 😍

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Chris Pattison @cosmochris.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

🌌 Monday Space⭐ Hubble image of a galaxy with a bright heart! Check out the beautiful dust lanes and stunning structure in the unbarred spiral galaxy NGC 5033. This is a wonderful image of an amazing galaxy! Read moreL buff.ly/4aAcasb

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Hubble Sets Sights on a Galaxy with a Bright Heart - NASA Science

This Hubble Space Telescope image shows the unbarred spiral galaxy NGC 5033, located about 40 million light-years away in the constellation of Canes Venatici

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Chris Pattison @cosmochris.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

🌌 Friday Space⭐ This is one of my favourite images from JWST😍 This is NGC 602, and I adore the colours and textures we can see in this JWST image! This is a young star cluster in the outskirt of the Small Magellanic Cloud, just 200,000 ly away. Read more: buff.ly/3PSqZNo

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Euclid UK @eucliduk.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

How’s this for a Monday morning? 🤩 A team of #HumansOfEuclid discovered an Einstein ring 💍 in nearby galaxy, NGC 6505. Only possible with the unique capabilities of this wonderful telescope!

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Kevin M. Gill @kevinmgill.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

New panorama from the Mars Perseverance Rover showing the terrain beyond Jezero Crater. Taken using MastCam-Z on Sol 1412. White balanced (below): flic.kr/p/2qL33db Natural Color: flic.kr/p/2qL33cE

Rocks and sand out to the horizon.

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Euclid UK @eucliduk.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Need something to watch on your commute home? @cosmochris.bsky.social breaks down today’s #Euclid discovery ⬇️ 💍

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Chris Pattison @cosmochris.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

🌌 BRAND NEW SPACE MONDAY🔭 The Euclid Space Telescope has released an image of a nearby galaxy called NGC 6505. In it, they discovered an Einstein Ring, the first one ever seen in an NGC object! Even more exciting because I work with a lot of the people involved in this discovery! 🤩 Stunning 🌌 😍

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Euclid Consortium @ec-euclid.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Scientists with #ESAEuclid have discovered an Einstein Ring gravitational lens in a nearby NGC galaxies - something very rare, unexpected, and beautiful. NGC 6505 bends space, turning the image of a background galaxy into a ring. Read more: www.euclid-ec.org/einstein-rin... 🔭 #space #science

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Euclid finds complete Einstein Ring in NGC galaxy

A space mission to map the Dark Universe

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Chris Pattison @cosmochris.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

🌌 Friday Space⭐ This is a beautiful galaxy full of pulsing cepheid variable stars, and home to a supernova seen in 2011. This is NGC 3972 imaged by Hubble, and it's incrediblly pretty😍 Read more:

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Hubble's Galaxy Full of Cosmic Lighthouses - NASA Science

This enchanting spiral galaxy can be found in the constellation of Ursa Major (the Great Bear). Star-studded NGC 3972 lies about 65 million light-years away

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Chris Pattison @cosmochris.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Tonight we're hosting Stargazing at Portsmouth Historic Dockyard! I'll try and live-post as many of the awesome space-themed activities we have on offer as I can! Follow along to see them all! #PompeyStargazing #Stargazing

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Chris Pattison @cosmochris.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

🌌 Monday Space⭐ Start your week by checking out these beautiful, shimmering cosmic curtains! This is a "light-echo", glowing gas that was heated up by a supernova called Cassiopeia A. Read more:

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Light echoes near Cassiopeia A

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Chris Pattison @cosmochris.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

🌌 Friday Space! ⭐ This is a Hubble image of the dusty Orion Nebula. It's just 1,300 light-years away, and the nebula is visible with the naked eye, below the three stars in Orion's belt. It won't look like this though, we need Hubble to see it so clearly! Read more: buff.ly/3PNldN7

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Chris Pattison @cosmochris.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

The first Monday Space picture 😍 This is the Leo P dwarf galaxy, imaged by JWST! It's a star-forming galaxy, 5 million light years away, part of which is shown in blue in the lower right! The colours, structures and shapes here are stunning, I love it! Read more here: buff.ly/40YbVEt

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Chris Pattison @cosmochris.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

I want to start using BlueSky more! To this end, I'll be using this channel to post space pictures I love or that are new every week, on Mondays and Fridays! Start and end you week with a beautiful view of the cosmos! Follow along to see the best pictures of the universe that I can find! 🔭 🌌 🤩

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