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Arp Bot 🤖 @arpbot.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Composite image of Arp 26, also known as M101 or the Pinwheel Galaxy. It combines data from X-ray (Chandra, purple), infrared (Spitzer, red), visible light (Hubble, yellow), and ultraviolet (GALEX, blue) telescopes. Credit: NASA, CXC, SAO;NASA, JPL-Caltech;NASA, STScI Source

A multiwavelength image of a spiral galaxy. The galaxy has a small pink core. Several arms spiral clockwise around the core. They are crossed by pink, filamentary dust lanes and made of a haze of yellow stars. Along the arms are purple splotches. In the outer parts of the galaxy, the arms appear blue, dotted with blue star clusters. The arms are somewhat well-defined but asymmetric. One arm curls from about 6 o'clock to 9 o'clock and is mostly separated from the body of the galaxy. Other arms cover the area from 12 o'clock to 6 o'clock.

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All the Galaxies! @allthegalaxies.galaxyzoo.org · 05/09/2026

A barred 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 (158.32129, 16.40707). 54 volunteers classified this galaxy in Galaxy Zoo 2.

A barred spiral galaxy from the Galaxy Zoo 2 project, classified by 54 volunteers.

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Astronomy Bot @astronomybot.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Best image of bright quasar 3C 273 Image date: 18 November 2013, 10:00 This image from Hubble’s Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2) is likely the best of ancient and brilliant quasar 3C 273, which resides in a giant elliptical galaxy in the constellation of Virgo (The Virgin). Its light h...

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Arp Bot 🤖 @arpbot.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Hubble image of Arp 284, also known as NGC 7714 and NGC 7715. In this image of NGC 7714, we see a golden loop of of Sun-like stars created after a close encounter with its companion galaxy, NGC 7715 (out of frame), about 100 million years ago. Credit: NASA, ESA, A. Gal-Yam Source

The galaxy is offset on the left side of the frame. Its center is a bright white-blue. From the center extends a wispy tan spiral arm, first going toward the top and then circling counterclockwise before dissipating just below the center of the galaxy. Two bright blue spiral arms, dotted with whiter areas of star formation, follow a similar counterclockwise path, but the blue spiral arms end in thin, dim lines that extend to the left side of the image, going off frame, and toward the right. There are tiny red background galaxies along the top third of the frame, and one prominent foreground star toward the bottom third.

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All the Galaxies! @allthegalaxies.galaxyzoo.org · 20/08/2026

A spiral galaxy, possibly merging, observed with the Hubble Space Telescope in the COSMOS survey. It is at redshift 0.59 (lookback time 5.83 billion years) with coordinates (150.54994, 2.50185). 29 volunteers classified this galaxy in Galaxy Zoo: Hubble.

A spiral galaxy, possibly merging from the Galaxy Zoo: Hubble project, classified by 29 volunteers.

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Arp Bot 🤖 @arpbot.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Chandra image of Arp 16, also known as M66. This X-ray image shows the hottest gas in the galaxy's core, bar, and inner spiral arms. The bright central source is likely material falling onto a supermassive black hole. Credit: NASA, CXC, Ohio State Univ., C.Grier et al. Source

Blue points of light and a blue haze on a black background. The blue haze roughly corresponds to the location of the galaxy’s bar in images taken at other wavelengths. A series of bright blue points are at the center of the hazy structure.

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Universal-Sci @universal-sci.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Hubble’s stunning image of Hydra highlights nearby Milky Way stars and a distant galaxy warped into a nearly perfect Einstein ring. We’re seeing that ring as it looked when the Universe was just 2.5 billion years old. (Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, D. Erb)

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Starship Celtica ☀️ @starshipceltica.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

SuperDUPERnova! www.vaticanobservatory.org/sacred-space... There was an interesting new paper published in May regarding superluminous supernovae. The Vatican Observatory was part of that interesting work.

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Arp Bot 🤖 @arpbot.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Hubble image of Arp 140, also known as NGC 274 and NGC 275. A barred spiral galaxy and a lenticular galaxy from an interacting pair. Lenticular galaxies have large central bulges and flattened disks like spirals, but no spiral arms. Credit: NASA, ESA, R. Foley, G. Kober Source

Two side-by-side galaxies fill the image. The left galaxy is a bright spiral galaxy bursting with blue star clusters, crossed by dark brown dust lanes. The right galaxy is a lenticular galaxy. It bright yellow-ish white center that gradually becomes more transparent, emitting a hazy glow. Distant stars and galaxies dot the background.

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Arp Bot 🤖 @arpbot.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

New Technology Telescope image of Arp 271, also known as NGC 5426 and NGC 5427. The mutual gravitational interaction of this pair of spiral galaxies distorts their shapes and creates a bridge of gas, dust and young stars that connect the galaxies. Credit: ESO Source

Two similar-looking spiral galaxies take up most of the frame. They both have bright, yellow-white central cores and well-defined spiral arms dotted with blue star clusters and dark dust lanes. NGC 5427 is a nearly face-on spiral galaxy at lower left. NGC 5426 is a more oblique galaxy at upper right. The two spiral arms on the upper side of NGC 5426 appear as a bridge that connects with NGC 5427. The black background of space is dotted with stars and small background galaxies.

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Arp Bot 🤖 @arpbot.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

JWST and Hubble image of Arp 142, also known as NGC 2936 and NGC 2937, or the Penguin and the Egg. In Hubble’s visible light image (left) a dark brown dust lane crosses the Penguin. In Webb’s near-infrared view (right), this dust is fainter. Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI Source

Frame is split down the middle: Hubble’s visible light image at left, and Webb’s near-infrared image at right. Both show the Egg at left and the Penguin at right. In Hubble’s view, the Penguin is highly detailed, with a bright blue beak, body, and tail that is covered in an arc of bright brown dust. The Egg, to its left, appears bright, gleaming yellowish white. At top right is another galaxy seen from the side, about as long as the Egg’s height. Dozens of galaxies and stars appear in the background. Webb’s near-infrared image shows the Penguin’s beak, head, and back in shades of pink. It’s tail-like region is more diffuse, and a mix of lighter pinks and blues. The Egg appears slightly larger in blue layers. A semi-transparent blue forms an upside down U over top of both galaxies. At top right, an edge-on galaxy has many more pinpricks of light, which are stars. Thousands of galaxies and stars appear in the background. Some galaxies are shades of orange, while others are white.

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Astronomy Bot @astronomybot.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Seeing quadruple Image date: 23 January 2012, 10:00 This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope picture may trick you into thinking that the galaxy in it — known as UZC J224030.2+032131 — has not one but five different nuclei. In fact, the core of the galaxy is only the faint and diffuse object seen a...

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Astronomy Bot @astronomybot.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Astronomy Picture Of the Day - APOD Title: Three Galaxies in Pavo Date: 2026-07-03 Image by: Mike Selby #APOD #NASA

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Astrophysica @thephysicsjournal.substack.com · 28/06/2026

Galaxy Cluster Abell NGC2218, located 2 billion light-years away in the Draco constellation. It is a massive cluster with as many as 10,000 individual galaxies. The light from many of these galaxies undergoes gravitational lensing. (Andrew Fruchter et al., WFPC2, HST, NASA)

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atlasmind @atlasmind.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Jasper national park USA 😍✌️

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Arp Bot 🤖 @arpbot.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Hubble image of Arp 321, also known as Hickson 40. This group of galaxies include three spiral galaxies, an elliptical galaxy, and a lenticular (lens-like) galaxy. Credit: NASA, ESA, STScI, Judy Schmidt Source

Five galaxies appear close to each other in the sky. At upper left, a spiral galaxy is tilted, appearing wider than it is tall. It has a glowing yellow-white center and brown dust trails that spiral clockwise around it. Above the center is a large elliptical galaxy. Its round, glowing yellow-white center is surrounded by a fuzzy halo that fades away from the core. Toward the bottom right are three galaxies that appear to touch. The largest is in the center: a nearly vertical, edge-on spiral galaxy. Its glowing yellow-white core is mostly obscured by reddish-brown dust trails dotted with blue stars. To its bottom left is a smaller, tilted spiral galaxy with a glowing white center. Brown dust trails are dotted with blue stars. One spiral arm appears to touch the vertical galaxy to its right. At the spiral’s bottom right is a lenticular galaxy with a glowing central core in the middle of a hazy white disk, appearing almost face-on. It seems to touch the large spiral galaxy above it.

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Astronomy Bot @astronomybot.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Galaxies Gone Wild! Image date: 24 April 2008, 15:00 These images show 6 different snapshots of galaxies at different stages of merging. It takes hundreds of millions of years for one merger to complete, so the individual stages are illustrated with different images from the fifty nine new imag...

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Astronomy Bot @astronomybot.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Lensed quasar Image date: 26 January 2017, 16:00 RXJ1131-1231 is among the five best lensed quasars discovered to date. The foreground galaxy smears the image of the background quasar into a bright arc (left) and creates a total of four images — three of which can be seen within the arc. Credi...

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All the Galaxies! @allthegalaxies.galaxyzoo.org · 05/06/2026

A spiral galaxy, possibly merging, observed with the Hubble Space Telescope in the COSMOS survey. It is at redshift 0.43 (lookback time 4.67 billion years) with coordinates (149.90130, 2.41364). 49 volunteers classified this galaxy in Galaxy Zoo: Hubble.

A spiral galaxy, possibly merging from the Galaxy Zoo: Hubble project, classified by 49 volunteers.

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All the Galaxies! @allthegalaxies.galaxyzoo.org · 26/05/2026

A galaxy with non-smooth features, observed with the Hubble Space Telescope in the COSMOS survey. It is at redshift 0.71 (lookback time 6.56 billion years) with coordinates (149.45323, 2.47941). 53 volunteers classified this galaxy in Galaxy Zoo: Hubble.

A galaxy with non-smooth features from the Galaxy Zoo: Hubble project, classified by 53 volunteers.

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All the Galaxies! @allthegalaxies.galaxyzoo.org · 26/05/2026

A spiral 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 (150.51253, 2.61656). 45 volunteers classified this galaxy in Galaxy Zoo: Hubble.

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

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All the Galaxies! @allthegalaxies.galaxyzoo.org · 26/04/2026

A barred 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 (227.85100, 6.34417). 42 volunteers classified this galaxy in Galaxy Zoo 2.

A barred spiral galaxy from the Galaxy Zoo 2 project, classified by 42 volunteers.

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All the Galaxies! @allthegalaxies.galaxyzoo.org · 23/04/2026

A spiral galaxy, observed with the Hubble Space Telescope in the COSMOS survey. It is at redshift 0.87 (lookback time 7.38 billion years) with coordinates (149.64058, 2.21143). 32 volunteers classified this galaxy in Galaxy Zoo: Hubble.🔭

A spiral galaxy from the Galaxy Zoo: Hubble project, classified by 32 volunteers.

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Astronomy Bot @astronomybot.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Hubble view of green filament in galaxy 2MASX J22014163+1151237 Image date: 2 April 2015, 17:00 This new NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image shows ghostly green filaments, lying within galaxy 2MASX J22014163+1151237. This filament was illuminated by a blast of radiation from a quasar — a very...

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All the Galaxies! @allthegalaxies.galaxyzoo.org · 11/04/2026

A smooth galaxy, observed with the Apache Point 2.5m Telescope in the SDSS survey. It is at redshift 0.059 (lookback time 819.8 million years) with coordinates (144.00050, 11.03431). 56 volunteers classified this galaxy in Galaxy Zoo 2.

A smooth galaxy from the Galaxy Zoo 2 project, classified by 56 volunteers.

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Astronomy Bot @astronomybot.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Barred Spiral Galaxy NGC 5335 Image date: 23 April 2025, 16:00 The Hubble Space Telescope captured in exquisite detail a face-on view of a remarkable-looking galaxy. NGC 5335 is categorized as a flocculent spiral galaxy with patchy streamers of star formation across its disk. There is a strikin...

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All the Galaxies! @allthegalaxies.galaxyzoo.org · 04/04/2026

A barred spiral galaxy, observed with the Apache Point 2.5m Telescope in the SDSS survey. It is at redshift 0.008 (lookback time 114.4 million years) with coordinates (171.37688, 63.44630). 34 volunteers classified this galaxy in Galaxy Zoo 2.

A barred spiral galaxy from the Galaxy Zoo 2 project, classified by 34 volunteers.

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All the Galaxies! @allthegalaxies.galaxyzoo.org · 03/04/2026

A barred 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 (156.03807, 17.05835). 30 volunteers classified this galaxy in Galaxy Zoo 2.

A barred spiral galaxy from the Galaxy Zoo 2 project, classified by 30 volunteers.

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Sadie Rae @sadierae.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

How many kinds of love might there be in the world, and how many formations might they make and who am I ever to imagine I could know such a marvelous business? - from On the Beach by Mary Oliver 🌱

Yellow and purple crocus blooming in the sunlight

Three purple crocus flowers. One pointed at the camera we can see it’s orange stamen

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All the Galaxies! @allthegalaxies.galaxyzoo.org · 09/11/2025

Looks to me like a foreground star from our own galaxy, photobombing! (It often takes much more context than one image to tell a star from a distant fuzzy galaxy, but… I’ve looked at a lot of these 😊)

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All the Galaxies! @allthegalaxies.galaxyzoo.org · 12/01/2026

A spiral galaxy in a merger, observed with the Hubble Space Telescope in the COSMOS survey. It is at redshift 0.34 (lookback time 3.91 billion years) with coordinates (150.02840, 2.68901). 31 volunteers classified this galaxy in Galaxy Zoo: Hubble.

A spiral galaxy in a merger from the Galaxy Zoo: Hubble project, classified by 31 volunteers.

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ESA Space Science @science.esa.int · 13/01/2026

New infrared observations from Webb are changing how we see the material near the Circinus Galaxy’s supermassive black hole! Read more 👉 esawebb.org/images/circi... 🔭🧪

$Image shows a large spiral galaxy that has a bright white center, with several lanes of reddish-brown dust and gas in between faint white arms. The galaxy takes up the center third of the frame. There are several thousand stars, some with diffraction spikes, scattered around the image. This image is labeled Hubble. A small box outlining an area at the center of the galaxy leads to a pullout square at the top right. The image, labeled Webb, is dark with a white glowing oval at the center. Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, E. Lopez-Rodriguez (University of South Carolina), D. Thatte (STScI), Image Processing: A. Pagan (STScI). Acknowledgment: NSF's NOIRLab, CTIO$

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All the Galaxies! @allthegalaxies.galaxyzoo.org · 02/09/2025

A barred 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 (237.60797, 18.13958). 44 volunteers classified this galaxy in Galaxy Zoo 2.

A barred spiral galaxy from the Galaxy Zoo 2 project, classified by 44 volunteers.

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All the Galaxies! @allthegalaxies.galaxyzoo.org · 09/06/2025

A smooth 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 (181.96228, 42.57187). 42 volunteers classified this galaxy in Galaxy Zoo 2.

A smooth galaxy from the Galaxy Zoo 2 project, classified by 42 volunteers.

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Corey S. Powell @coreyspowell.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

In a related study, the ALMA observatory finds hints of planets being born around stars in our galaxy's "central molecular zone." This region is dense and turbulent, with a supermassive black hole at the center -- yet planets seem to be forming there anyway. 🧪🔭 www.uni-koeln.de/en/universit...

ALMA-images of the Milky Way's Central Molecular Zone. The research team suspects that protoplanetary discs are forming in its clouds. Foto: Fengwei Xu (PKU); ALMA Partnership; Laura Pérez (NRAO)

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Igor Sushko @igorsushko.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Ukrainian MiG-29 pilot shot down a Russian Shahed drone over Ukraine with an R-73 air-to-air missile.

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Space Telescope Science Institute @stsci.edu · 28/03/2025

Even though Stephan’s Quintet is called a quintet, only four of the galaxies here are close together (about 290 million light-years away from Earth). The fifth and leftmost galaxy, NGC 7320, is only about 40 million light-years away: bit.ly/42MkBik 🔭 🧪

$A group of five galaxies that appear close to each other in the sky: two in the middle, one toward the top, one to the upper left, and one toward the bottom. Four of the five appear to be touching. One is somewhat separated. The galaxies are large relative to the hundreds of much smaller (more distant) galaxies in the background. All five galaxies have bright white cores. Each has a slightly different size, shape, structure, and coloring. Scattered in front of the galaxies are number of foreground stars with bright white diffraction spikes radiating from the center.$

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ESA Space Science @science.esa.int · 27/03/2025

⭕ A stunning cosmic lens! A distant background spiral galaxy appears to be wrapped around a closer foreground elliptical galaxy, forming an Einstein ring. Captured by the NASA/ESA/CSA James #Webb Space Telescope. Read more 👉 www.esa.int/ESA_Multimed... 🔭 🧪 ☄️

In the centre is an elliptical galaxy, seen as an oval-shaped glow around a small bright core. Around this is wrapped a broad band of light, appearing like a spiral galaxy stretched and warped into a ring, with bright blue lines drawn through it where the spiral arms have been stretched into circles. A few distant objects are visible around the ring on a black background.

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Sarah Kendrew @sarahkendrew.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

CRAZY new image from #JWST of a distant spiral wrapped around a foreground elliptical through gravitational lensing - perfectly aligned, forming a perfect Einstein ring. A serendipitous discovery led by G. Mahler of @universitedeliege.bsky.social 🇧🇪 🔭 Image credit: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, G. Mahler

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All the Galaxies! @allthegalaxies.galaxyzoo.org · 23/03/2025

An edge-on disk galaxy, observed with the Hubble Space Telescope in the COSMOS survey. It is at redshift 0.38 (lookback time 4.26 billion years) with coordinates (149.65200, 2.21004). 31 volunteers classified this galaxy in Galaxy Zoo: Hubble.

A edge-on disk galaxy from the Galaxy Zoo: Hubble project, classified by 31 volunteers.

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All the Galaxies! @allthegalaxies.galaxyzoo.org · 22/03/2025

A barred spiral galaxy, observed with the Hubble Space Telescope in the AEGIS survey. It is at redshift 0.37 (lookback time 4.17 billion years) with coordinates (214.79275, 52.86437). 145 volunteers classified this galaxy in Galaxy Zoo: Hubble.

A barred spiral galaxy from the Galaxy Zoo: Hubble project, classified by 145 volunteers.

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All the Galaxies! @allthegalaxies.galaxyzoo.org · 23/03/2025

A spiral galaxy in a merger, observed with the Hubble Space Telescope in the AEGIS survey. It is at redshift 0.51 (lookback time 5.28 billion years) with coordinates (214.95475, 52.87661). 28 volunteers classified this galaxy in Galaxy Zoo: Hubble.

A spiral galaxy in a merger from the Galaxy Zoo: Hubble project, classified by 28 volunteers.

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All the Galaxies! @allthegalaxies.galaxyzoo.org · 18/03/2025

A merger, observed with the Hubble Space Telescope in the CANDELS-GOODS survey. It is at redshift 0.99 (lookback time 7.91 billion years) with coordinates (53.15277, -27.77528). 70 volunteers classified this galaxy in Galaxy Zoo CANDELS.

A merger from the Galaxy Zoo CANDELS project, classified by 70 volunteers.

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Space Telescope Science Institute @stsci.edu · 18/03/2025

#NASAWebb was built to see the early universe. Earendel, the most distant star Webb has seen, is thought to exist about 1 billion years after the big bang. The most distant galaxy Webb has seen is even farther, around 300 million years after the big bang: bit.ly/40ZyR4L 🔭 🧪

$The image is split in half vertically. On the left, a black background is scattered with hundreds of small galaxies of different shapes, ranging in color from white to yellow to red. Some galaxies, mostly the redder galaxies, are distorted, appearing to be stretched out or mirror imaged. Just a little bit above the center, there is a bright source of light, a star, with 8 bright diffraction spikes extending out from it. A portion of the larger image is zoomed-in on the right, showing a particularly long, red, thin line that stretches from 1 o’clock to 7 o’clock. There are several bright dots, some thicker than others, along this line, with one labeled as Earendel.$

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