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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

woke up and still thinking about these

$The Moon, backlit by the Sun during a solar eclipse, is photographed by NASA\u2019s Orion spacecraft. Orion is visible in the foreground on the left. Earth is reflecting sunlight at the left edge of the Moon, which is slightly brighter than the rest of the disk. The bright spot visible just below the Moon\u2019s bottom right edge is Saturn. Beyond that, the bright spot at the right edge of the image is Mars. Credit: NASA$ $A crescent Earth setting behind the Moon\u2019s horizon. Credit: NASA$ The Moon viewed from the Orion spacecraft backlit by the Sun in a solar eclipse. Stars are visible in the background.

The Moon viewed from the Orion spacecraft backlit by the Sun in a solar eclipse. Stars are visible in the background.

A crescent Earth setting behind a hemisphere of the Moon. Credit: NASA

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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

no, this isn’t the bottom of the ocean. it’s the surface of an ASTEROID. IN SPACE.

A rocky barren surface of an asteroid with the darkness of space behind it and faint white stars speckling the background.

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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

exactly 48 years ago, voyager 1 took the first image of the earth and moon in the same frame from over 7 million miles away.

This picture of a crescent-shaped Earth and Moon, the first of its kind ever taken by a spacecraft, was recorded Sept. 18, 1977, by NASA Voyager 1 when it was 7.25 million miles 11.66 million kilometers from Earth. Because the Earth is many times brighter than the Moon, the Moon was artificially brightened by a factor of three relative to the Earth by computer enhancement. Credit: NASA/JPL

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Emilio Monelli @monel76.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

SH2-101 Tulip Nebula and surroundings , 60 minutes, William Optics Megrez 72fd with 0,8x, ASI533MC pro, Celestron CG-4 #astronomy #astrophotography 🔭 @siril.org @kat-astro-bot.bsky.social @gimpofficial.bsky.social Processed with Siril 1.4.3, Cosmic Clarity and GIMP.

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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

stressed about the news lately? look at today’s gorgeous new hubble image of a nebula in the large magellanic cloud, the galaxy’s second-largest star-forming region 🌌

$Stars in a star cluster shine brightly blue, with four-pointed diffraction spikes radiating from them. The center shows a small, crowded group of stars while a larger group is partially visible on the right side of the image. The nebula is mostly thick, smoky clouds of gas, lit up in blue tones by the stars. Clumps of dust hover before and around the stars; they are mostly dark but lit around their edges where the starlight erodes them.$

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Edude Makes Comics @edudemakescomic.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Varney just, hanging out with the generals from season 2 in Castlevania before he left the castle was always a funny image to me #Castlevania #Netflixvania

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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

i drove 6 hours to get this photo

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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

saw a heart in the sky, maybe things will be okay ☁️

The evening sky with the clouds parting to form a heart shape.

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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

the human eye can’t even SEE the full image that rubin took of this portion of the sky. it would take 400 ULTRA HD tv screens for our eyes to be able to see it. the field of view is 45 TIMES the area of the full moon. we are entering a new era of astronomy.

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. To the lower left is a region filled with the hundreds of golden glittering gems of a distant galaxy cluster. In the foreground, below and right of center, two blue spiral galaxies look like eyes beneath the entangled mass of a triple galaxy merger in the upper right. A few bright blue points of foreground stars pierce the glittering tapestry.
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.

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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

we can’t be alone in the universe, we simply can’t be

A sprawling, textured field of galaxies is 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. At center left lies a large elliptical galaxy that is dense and smooth, like a polished stone glowing with golden light. At center top, another smooth elliptical galaxy is oriented horizontally, with a wispy tail extending right. At right, a group of interacting galaxies is connected by delicate streams of stars like spider silk.

All throughout the image, millions 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.

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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

scientists in america reading the news every single day

Ben Affleck holding a cigarette looking tired reaction pic

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Dr. Skylar Grayson @skylargrayson.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

I’m begging you: take some time out of your day to explore this newly released map of our universe. 🤯 This interactive site shows JWST’s view of the COSMOS-Web field, containing more than 800,000 galaxies spanning 98% of cosmic time. Its actually mindblowing 🧪🔭 cosmos2025.iap.fr/fitsmap.html

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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

i firmly believe stargazing is a form of therapy and everyone should do it every chance they get

A photo of someone looking up at a starry night sky with text on top of the image reading: “stargazing >>”.

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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

if pictures of space offend you, please reevaluate yourself

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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

the universe wishes you a very happy pride month 🏳️‍🌈🌌

This image of the Ring Nebula, taken by Webb’s Near-Infrared Camera, appears as a distorted doughnut. The nebula’s inner cavity hosts shades of blue and green, while the detailed ring transitions through shades of orange in the inner regions and pink in the outer region. The ring’s inner region has distinct filament elements. Stars litter the scene, with a particularly prominent star with 8 long spikes in the top right corner.

Colorful clouds of gas and dust crowd the image. Deep red and orange clouds surround the image's edges, with some violet in the upper left portion. Near the left middle, a region of teal and yellow shines.

A star cluster is shown inside a large nebula of many-coloured gas and dust. The material forms dark ridges and peaks of gas and dust surrounding the cluster, lit on the inner side, while layers of diffuse, translucent clouds blanket over them. Around and within the gas, a huge number of distant galaxies can be seen, some quite large, as well as a few stars nearer to us which are very large and bright.

A colorful, glowing nebula that reaches beyond the top and bottom of the image. This translucent cloud of gas holds wispy and thin filaments with hard edges in some places, and puffy and opaque in others. Blue, red, and yellow colors mix together, showing light emitted by different types of atoms in the hot gas. Scattered across the colorful nebula are bright and point-like foreground and background stars. The background is black.

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Wonder of Science @wonderofscience.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

This is going to make you feel very small. Fly away from the surface of Earth, past the Sun, out of the Solar System, through the closest stars, leave the Milky Way, to the cosmic web of galaxies in the nearby Universe.

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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

this beautiful spiral galaxy has a ring of stars inside of it, making it look like a swirling space portal 🌌

A vast, face-on spiral galaxy that holds an inner ring of bright-blue, young stars.

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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

the face of someone who just finished her first year of grad school now onto dope ass europa research over the summer!!! 🤩❄️🛰️

Me smiling in my car wearing glasses, a green long sleeve that says “I don’t really know some things” with a bunch of nature drawings on it.

A picture of me making a kissy face in my car with my hand on my cheek. I’m wearing a green long sleeve that says “I don’t really know some things” with nature drawings on it.

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Woozy @feelingkindawoozy.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

OCS make the world go around god i love OCS

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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

happy mothers day, be sure to give your mom some flowers 🌸🌌

A prominent, eight-pointed star shines in bright white at the center of this image. A clumpy cloud of material surrounds this central star, with more material above and below than on the sides, in some places allowing background stars to peek through. The cloud material is a dark yellow closer to the star, and turns a pinkish purple at its outer edges. Combined together, the central star and its cloud resemble the delicate petals of a cherry blossom. The black background features many smaller white stars scattered throughout.

The upper galaxy is labelled UGC 1810 by itself, but together with its collisional partners is known as Arp 273. The overall shape of the UGC 1810 -- in particular its blue outer ring -- is likely a result of wild and violent gravitational interactions. The blue color of the outer ring at the top is caused by massive stars that are blue hot and have formed only in the past few million years. The inner part of the upper galaxy -- itself an older spiral galaxy -- appears redder and threaded with cool filamentary dust. A few bright stars appear well in the foreground, unrelated to colliding galaxies, while several far-distant galaxies are visible in the background.

Caption credit: NASA

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Astronomy 🔭 @astronomy.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff. - Carl Sagan, Cosmos

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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

even the universe celebrates mothers day!! here’s the penguin and egg galaxies 🌌

$Arp 142, two interacting galaxies, observed in near- and mid-infrared light. At left is NGC 2937, nicknamed the Egg. Its center is the brighter and whiter. There are six diffraction spikes atop its gauzy blue layers. At right is NGC 2936, nicknamed the Penguin. Its beak-like region points toward and above the Egg. Where the eye would be is a small, opaque yellow spiral. The Penguin’s distorted arms form the bird’s beak, back, and tail. The tail is wide and layered, like a beta fish’s tail. A semi-transparent blue hue traces the Penguin and extends from the galaxy, creating an upside-down U over top of both galaxies. At top right is another galaxy seen from the side, pointing roughly at a 45-degree angle. It is largely light blue. Its length appears approximately as long as the Egg’s height. One foreground star with large, bright blue diffraction spikes appears over top of the galaxy and another near it. The entire black background is filled with tiny, extremely distant galaxies.$

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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

new hubble image of a beautiful spiral galaxy (ngc 3596) that lies 90 MILLION light-years away!!! 🌌

A spiral galaxy viewed face-on, with a slightly oval-shaped disk. The galaxy’s center appears as a bright white spot surrounded by a golden glow. Two spiral arms extend out from the center, wrapping around the galaxy and broadening out to form the thick outer edge of the disk. Thin reddish strands of dust and bright pink spots follow the arms through the disk. Faint strands of stars extend from the tips of the spiral arms and out beyond the disk.

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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

it’s actually annoying how much i love the moon

The full moon shining in the evening sky with pink clouds.

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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

literally me if i was a galaxy

A spiral galaxy seen at a skewed angle. Its center is a bright spot radiating light. A thick, stormy disk of material surrounds this bright center, with swirling strands of dark dust and bright spots of star formation strewn through the disk. A large spiral arm extends from the disk toward the viewer. Some foreground stars are visible atop the galaxy.

$A spiral galaxy, seen tilted at a slight angle, on a dark background of space. It glows softly from its center and out to its edge. The disk is a broad swirl of dark-reddish dust webs and sparkling blue patches where stars have formed. Atop the center of the galaxy is a foreground star that appears very large and bright with four diffraction spikes emanating from it. The star is relatively close to Earth compared to the galaxy.$

A large galaxy is at center, and a significantly smaller galaxy is to its left. The large galaxy is mostly face-on, but the top appears slightly tilted away. It has several rings. Its circular core is bright white at the very center, but light yellow overall. Going outward, there are gaps between the rings. The core is surrounded by two slightly lighter yellow rings, which also appear to be overlapping. The next ring is slightly more transparent and yellow. The two or three rings that are farther out are bluer, sometimes with blue clumps. The widest ring is also blue, but also the most transparent. At 9 o’clock is a small dwarf galaxy. It is about the same size as the yellow core of the Bullseye. The dwarf galaxy is blue, with many dots. It looks like the edge of the Bullseye might touch the dwarf galaxy. Both galaxies are set on the black background of space, which is dotted with a range of galaxies in different shapes, colors, and sizes, along with one foreground star at left.

A massive spiral galaxy fills the image, with its bright yellow core seen near the upper left. Spiral arms whirl outward, laced through with dark brown dust and bright blue patches of star formation.

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Antares || 💜🦇 @ratkosnumber1.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

I love seeing other people who are obsessed with a character enough to make their details centred on the character Keep it up its tough out here 😭🙏

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Richard @rvmrn69.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

Goodnight everyone

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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

can i come over and look at you like this

A close up of some storms on Jupiter forming a “face” with two white eyes and an orange mouth.

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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

when did you first fall in love with the stars? 🌌

A starry night sky with a meteor streaking through it.

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Antares || 💜🦇 @ratkosnumber1.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Who's the best casltevania duo, and why is it Varney & Ratko?

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russieraholic.bsky.social @russieraholic.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

Two of my more recent designs... for like, maybe the three people IYKYK

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Antares || 💜🦇 @ratkosnumber1.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Oh also more astronomy stuff for yall

Ngc 3579 and its fellow celestial buddies

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neilmac65.bsky.social @neilmac65.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

The Seagull Nebula,processed in Pixinsight using the wonderful SADR data for this object.

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Antares || 💜🦇 @ratkosnumber1.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

I decided to properly image Caldwell 49 and Caldwell 50 with my #seestars50 after six months. I'm super happy with how it came out. The image at the end is what I took six months ago, after one month of owning my seestar. I like seeing how much I've progressed in my astrophotography. #astronomy

The Rosette Nebula. A winding group of H II gas that forms a rose-like structure. Within its centre there is next to no gas aside from two ribbons, and the star cluster Caldwell 50, known as The Satellite Cluster.

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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

WOW WOW WOW LOOK AT THIS BEAUTIFUL NEW HUBBLE IMAGE OF NGC 346!!! 🌌

A star cluster within a nebula. The background is filled with thin, pale blue clouds. Parts are thicker and pinker in colour. The cluster is made up of bright blue stars that illuminate the nebula around them. Large arcs of dense dust curve around, before and behind the clustered stars, pressed together by the stars’ radiation. Behind the clouds of the nebula can be seen large numbers of orange stars.

Image credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, A. Nota, P. Massey, E. Sabbi, C. Murray, M. Zamani (ESA/Hubble)

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Justin the Dark @justinthedark.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

I imaged my first globular cluster of the year! The M3 cluster is one of the largest and brightest and is made up of around 500,000 stars. It is estimated to be 11.4 billion years old and roughly 32,600 light-years from Earth. #astrophotography #astronomy #space

An image of the M3 globular cluster. A spherical shape grouping of 500,000 stars.

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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

europa had quite the glow up from 1973-2022!! imagine the BEAUTIFUL images that clipper will take when it arrives 🥹

NASA's Pioneer 10 took the first image of Europa from a spacecraft during a flyby in December 1973. This image is from a distance, although bright and dark regions on Europa are clearly present.

$Jupiter's moon Europa as captured by NASA's Juno spacecraft. The brownish-gray surface of Europa takes center stage. Its surface is revealed to be rugged, with pits and troughs near the day-night boundary. The leftmost third of the moon is shrouded in the black of night. Spread across the moon, numerous bright and dark ridges and bands stretch across a fractured exterior like the webbing on a cantaloupe's skin, revealing the tectonic stresses Europa endured over millennia. The moon stands in bright contrast to the darkness of space in the background. Credits: Image data: NASA/JPL- Caltech/SwRI/MSSS Image processing by Björn Jónsson CC BY-NC-SA 2.0$

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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

what are your thoughts on the drake equation?

A graphic showing the famous Drake Equation with all of its variables and their meanings.

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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

thinking about this today

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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

space sucks and is soooooo lame, why does anyone even like it 👎

$A ruddy nebula is pierced through with orange stars on the right side of the image, and a large white star with diffraction spikes shines at lower left. A cavity in the nebula is seen near upper left with bright blue wisps of gas throughout.$ $A nebula with stars. The center of the image from top-left to bottom-right glows brightly with the light of newly forming stars and is partially obscured by dark dust. Colored layers of gas and dust billow out across the rest of the image. Foreground stars with large diffraction spikes speckle the nebula.$ $Thousands of bright stars shine against black space, more tightly condensed near the image’s center. The stars glint in shades of white, blue, and red, and diffraction spikes are visible around the foreground stars.$ Webb's image of a section of the Flame Nebula, which contains a mixture of reds, blues and browns, and shows red, blue, and white stars.

Webb's image of a section of the Flame Nebula, which contains a mixture of reds, blues and browns, and shows red, blue, and white stars.

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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

hubble’s recent images 🌌 can’t believe this telescope is almost 35 years old and still giving us these BEAUTIFUL images of our universe 🥹

A hazy ball of white light fills the image. The ball is brighter toward the center of the image, becoming more diffuse toward the edges of the image. Bands of rusty-brown dust stretch across the core.

Wisps of pinkish-grey clouds fill the scene. Patches of dark dust obscure the glow. Bright, blue-white stars shine through the cloud.

$An area of space filled with stars. Most of the stars are small, distant dots in a range of orange colors; closer stars shine with a bright glow and hold four thin diffraction spikes around them. These closer stars appear both bluish and reddish. Clouds from a nebula cover the left half of the scene, giving it a blue-greenish cast. More clouds also drift over the black background of space on the right side of the image.$

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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

if only light pollution didn’t exist 😭

A person looking up at a starry night sky with the word “stargazing >>” written on it.

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Justin the Dark @justinthedark.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

We had quite a bit of cloud cover last night, but my little #Seestar tried its best to capture the Blood Moon. Here’s a timelapse of the evening on 20 second intervals #astrophotography #astronomy #space

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