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#ROSETTA INTERNATIONAL MISSION COMET #67P/CHURYUMOV-GERASIMENKO 10 aug 2015 Distance 313 km OSINAC 8x Orange Green Blue rosetta-osiris.eu/image/NAC_20... ESA/Rosetta/OSIRIS/j. Roger

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Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 13h

Ganymede is incredible. The biggest moon on the solar system *bigger than Mercury*. Imagine what amazing things must be on its surface, which we haven't seen up close in toto.

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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 28/09/2026

This is a photo of our home planet taken only a few hours ago! So what? We have photos of Earth taken from space every day. Ah, but *this* photo was taken by a spacecraft ON ITS WAY TO JUPITER.

From the source: "Mostly black space, most of Earth visible at the top right of the image. Part of a spacecraft visible on the left."

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Simeon Schmauß @stim3on.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Great day here at ESOC, staying in the control room with the team while the images came down and processing the JMC images. Earth proved to be a real stunner with Africa and Madagascar in full view. #planetsci 🔭🧪

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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 28/09/2026

These are what the clouds on Jupiter look up close. The small patches of white are cloud tops, soaring above the main, colourful cloud layer. Image from NASA's Juno spacecraft during its 38th close approach to Jupiter on 29 November 2021, processed by Kevin Gill (@kevinmgill.bsky.social)

A complex, swirling pattern of lighter and darker clouds. One large system, angled to the upper left in this scene, is a tawny brown colour and is elongate. Another, more circular storm system is at lower centre, and is a grey–greenish colour. The background swirls are various shades of grey to blue; small, white features dot the scene.

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Simeon Schmauß @stim3on.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Coming up tomorrow, ESA's Juice spacecraft will fly past Earth for another gravity assist! I had the fantastic opportunity to help planning the JMC shots this time around. We're trying a bunch of new things with this camera, so I'm really excited to see how they'll turn out. 🔭🧪 #planetsci

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Joshua Stevens @jscarto.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Happy to finally build and release the color ramp creator I’ve always wanted to use. Phosphor generates perceptually linear gradients and lets you edit, share, and export them for use in ArcGIS Pro, QGIS, GDAL, and other formats. I hope you find it helpful. www.joshuastevens.net/phosphor/

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Phosphor

Multi-hue color gradients with perceptually linear lightness. Export to CSS, Python, QGIS, ArcGIS Pro or GDAL.

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Daniel Pomarède @pomarede.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Perseverance Mastcam-Z 360° Panorama #55: Groloy (and Viking Lander Commemoration), Sol 1932 (July 27, 2026) ☑️ all panoramas mastcamz.asu.edu/mastcam-zs-3... ☑️ 360° VR view maps.planet.fu-berlin.de/jezero/360/55 #Mars 🔭🧪

An enhanced color 360° panorama capturing a Martian landscape with the Perseverance rover in the foreground.

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Robert Simmon @rsimmon.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Happy fall (or spring, depending)!

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

Mars - Frosty Olympus Mons - ESA Mars Express - From Andrea Luck (andrealuck.bsky.social) - flic.kr/p/2pWEwKw

Full size image 3243x3243: www.flickr.com/photos/192271236@N03/53783506692/sizes/o/
See license below.
Credits:
Image Processing: AndreaLuck CC BY
Raw Data: ESA/DLR/FUBerlin

Image created processing data from: psa.esa.int/

Mission: ESA Mars Express
Instrument: HRSC
Orbit: 23889
Time: 2022-11-30T12:15:04.924Z
North Approx on the left
Product IDs:
HN889_0000_ND3.IMG
HN889_0000_GR3.IMG Partially Reconstructed
HN889_0000_BL3.IMG
More info of the frost detection on the Olympus Mons Caldera: www.nature.com/articles/s41561-024-01457-7

Credits:
Image Processing: AndreaLuck CC BY
Raw Data: ESA/DLR/FUBerlin

Feel free to share, giving the appropriate credit and providing a link to the original image or tweet: creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

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Astronomy Picture of the Day 🪐 @apod.shinyakato.dev · 21/09/2026

🔭 Cocoon Nebula Wide Field Image Credit & Copyright: Piotr Czerski ap260921

A starfield is shown against a patchy red-glowing
background. Two irregular brown trails occur, the lower
of which culminates in a bright pink and white region.
Please see the explanation for more detailed information.

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

Jupiter - From Gordan Ugarković (ugordan.bsky.social) - flic.kr/p/BfyQX

This is currently my best guess at a true color image of Jupiter. Color balance is based on recent Earth-based views and also using Hubble images. The image was taken by Cassini on 13 November 2000 and is one of the last single-frame footprints on approach where all three approx. red, green and blue filters exist.

Narrow-angle composite taken from a distance of 44.8 million km and at a phase angle of 18 degrees.

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CosmicRami 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @rami.spaceaustralia.com · 19/09/2026

Did you see this really neat image from my thread yesterday? It was taken by AS Fruchter at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory and is an H-alpha image (hydrogen gas emitting as the 21cm photon). Here is an updated, annotated version from me. We don't see the pulsar here, only the WD.

grainy image of the PSR J0437-4715 system creating a bow shock as it plows through the Galaxy. A red line is drawn between the pulsar and front of bow shock and annotated as being approx. 47 times the Sun-Neptune distance. The pulsar dot itself is annotated, noting that the pulsar and the white dwarf are only 1 million km apart. A nearby galaxy, RX J0437.4-4711 is also annotated.

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Melina Thévenot🏳️‍⚧️ @melina-iras07572.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Proper Motion of stars in the galactic center with #JWST NIRCam F182M. programs: 1306, 4515 www.stsci.edu/jwst-program...

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Corey S. Powell @coreyspowell.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Wow: Giant new impact crater spotted on the Moon! An asteroid the size of an apartment building hit the lunar surface in early 2024 & created 220-meter (730-foot) wide McGetchin crater. It's "the largest contemporary impact crater found in the Solar System." 🧪🔭 science.nasa.gov/solar-system...

Officially named McGetchin after pioneering lunar scientist Tom McGetchin, the crater formed on the Moon’s eastern edge sometime between April 11 and May 22, 2024, after a comet or asteroid the size of a three- to six-story building hit the surface.

The crash left a crater, 728 feet wide, that spans the length of two football fields. And at 141 feet deep, the crater could fit three vertically stacked yellow school buses. Scientists estimate that an impact of this magnitude happens on the Moon about once in a century or even longer.

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Huub Eggen @huubeggen.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Astronaut Anil Menon took this image from space station #ISS just after midnight on 8 September 2026, from over Lake Superior looking northwest over Canada. Lights of open pit mines near Fort Murray, Alberta at left. Original eol.jsc.nasa.gov/SearchPhotos... @daveatcogs.bsky.social

The image shows swirls of green aurora, with some green and read streamers over the curved horizon of Earth. Blackness of space, some stars and the Moon at right in the upper part of the image. On Earth some lights are visible.

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Derek Newsome @derek.space · 16/09/2026

NASA released a bunch of 16 and 35mm film engineering footage of the Artemis II launch today. Naturally I knew what I had to do with it.

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Riding With Robots @ridingrobots.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Nice photo but pretty easy to scroll past until you realize it was taken on Mars.

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Israel Velazquez @israelvelazquez.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

IRAS07299 | NIRCAM. #JWST Proposal ID: 3907 (www.stsci.edu/jwst-program...) PI: Zhang, Yichen. Observed: 2024-03-12. Filters: F115W F162M F182M F212N F360M F405N F470N F480M Title: Unveiling the Early Stages of Massive Binary Formation with JWST

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Andy Saunders - Apollo Remastered @andysaunders-1.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

60 years ago TODAY! Highest Earth orbit achieved by humans - Gemini XI - a record that stood until only 2 years ago (broken narrowly by Polaris Dawn) An obsessive amount of research determined that this stunning photo, not the one commonly shared, was from apogee We can see Gordon's hand reflected

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

Aurora over Raisting Earth Station with Moon - From Simeon Schmauß (stim3on.bsky.social) - flic.kr/p/2pQoiDV

What a crazy night, we went into it not expecting much since the solar storm was forecast for after sunrise in central Europe.
However, before the sun had even set, I got the alert that the first CME had impacted Earth, so the chances immediately looked a lot better. What then unfolded surpassed even our wildest expectations.
We ended up driving to this satellite ground station south of Ammersee in southern Bavaria and just when we arrived we spotted the first diffuse pillars north of us.
We experienced three waves of incredibly strong Aurora, especially for our rather Southern latitude. During the second wave we saw individual pulsating filaments dancing over our heads. What a breathtaking experience!

Many thanks to Christopher for accompanying me on this adventure, Max for being an all round great guy, and Sebastian who lent me his wide angle lenses that made these shots possible.

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Riding With Robots @ridingrobots.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

McDonald Observatory, Ft. Davis, Texas. Take a walk with me?

A telescope dome under a clear, starry sky dominated by the colorful stars and dust clouds of the central Milky Way. Photo: Bill Dunford

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Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Can you find Saturn's rings?

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Simeon Schmauß @stim3on.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

The Perseverance rover is rather busy capturing images of Phobos lately. This was taken yesterday on Sol 1978 of the mission. 🔭🧪 flic.kr/p/2sAEB4a Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/Simeon Schmauß

a potato shaped moon against the dark sky.
The large crater Stikney at the top is mostly in shadow, making parts of its rim look like they are not attached to the moon.

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

Antennae Galaxies collaboration: Ultra-Deep High Resolution View - From Rolf Wahl Olsen - flic.kr/p/r2XHAw

The Deepest and Highest Resolution View of the Entire Antennae Galaxies

This image is a collaboration between astrophotographers Federico Pelliccia of Italy and Rolf Wahl Olsen of New Zealand and shows an ultra-deep and detailed view of the famous Antennae colliding galaxies in Corvus.

The image was constructed from a number of sources: First a mosaic of panels from the 8.2m Subaru telescope was very patiently put together by Federico Pelliccia. This data was subsequently blended with Rolf Wahl Olsen's Antennae Galaxies Extreme Deep Field - 75 Hours to bring out the faint tidal streams and large scale structures which was not present in the high resolution Subaru data and this deep image also provided the colour information. The core was further enhanced by overlaying an extremely detailed frame from the Hubble Space Telescope.

Together this data represents the deepest and highest resolution view available to date covering the entire Antennae galaxies.

Image Details
Data: Subaru, NAOJ & NASA/ESA/Hubble & Rolf Wahl Olsen
Processing: Federico Pelliccia & Rolf Wahl Olsen
RA 12h 01m 53.30s, Dec -18° 52' 31.37"
Pixel scale: 0.2"/pixel
Field radius: 0.26 degrees

Optical systems:

Subaru Telescope
8.2m f/1.8 Ritchey–Chrétien
Exposure: 20 x 5 minutes

Hubble space Telescope
2.4m f/24 Ritchey–Chrétien
The Hubble image uses visible and near-infrared observations from Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3), along with some of the previously-released observatio...

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ESA Space Science @science.esa.int · 09/09/2026

Eight years of space selfies in 4️⃣ minutes 📸 As the ESA/JAXA BepiColombo mission traveled toward its final destination around Mercury, three onboard monitoring cameras took images of the journey 👇 Which planets do you spot along the way? 👀 youtu.be/WJqWGdWERqk 🔭🧪 #planetsci

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MTM's selfie footage of BepiColombo's eight-year journey

YouTube video by European Space Agency, ESA

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AstroBin @astrobin.com · 08/09/2026

AstroBin's Image of the Day: "Centaurus A Hydrogen Jet Velocity Map" by Mathew Ludgate www.astrobin.com/u6sbbz/ #astrophotography

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Dakota Smith @weatherdak.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Holy smokes Hurricane Lowell's eye is incredible.

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cosmos4u.bsky.social @cosmos4u.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Arguably the most unusual video of the solar eclipse last month: vimeo.com/1223948517 - for the Proba 3 mission the Sun was doubly occulted, by its own #coronagraph (constituting of the occulter satellite of the pair) and the Moon. The corona has been highly processed here.

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12 Aug 2026 Proba-3 Total Solar Eclipse

Several hours before the actual Total Solar Eclipse, the Proba-3 spacecraft experienced it's own TSE. Image Credit: ESA/Proba-3/ASPIICS/Simeon S/Colin Legg

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ESA Space Science @science.esa.int · 03/09/2026

A last selfie, 3.3 million km from Mercury 📸 #BepiColombo's Mercury Transfer Module (MTM) has taken one last set of snapshots before it separates today from the science orbiters, ESA's Bepi and JAXA's Mio, which will continue their journey to Mercury. Farewell, robot friend 👋 🥹 🔭 🧪 #planetsci 1/2

View from the monitoring camera M-CAM 1 on ESA’s Mercury Transfer Module (MTM), which shows part of the extended solar array of the MTM on the right and a part of MTM itself on the left.

View from the monitoring camera M-CAM 2 on ESA’s Mercury Transfer Module (MTM), which captures parts of the medium-gain antenna and magnetometer boom on ESA's Mercury Planetary Orbiter (MPO).

View from the monitoring camera M-CAM 3 on ESA’s Mercury Transfer Module (MTM), which captures part of the high-gain antenna on ESA's Mercury Planetary Orbiter (MPO) and some of MPO's body.

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Kevin M. Gill @kevinmgill.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Large dust devil near the Mars Perseverance Rover on Sol 1966 (yestersol). NASA/JPL-Caltech/Kevin M. Gill

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Alex Spahn 🌋🌪️☄️ @spahn711.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Come sit with me beneath the stars, yet on top of the world, and witness the Earth create itself. ✨🌋

A volcano erupts thousands of feet above the surrounding landscape, with golden city lights illuminating a layer of haze., and a clear starry night sky above.

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Thomas Appéré @thomasappere.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Nous célébrons aujourd'hui le 5000e jour martien passé par le rover Curiosity dans le cratère Gale 🥳 Voici une mosaïque d'images acquises par sa caméra de navigation au sol 5000.

Mosaïque en noir et blanc d'un paysage martien photographié par le rover Curiosity au sol 5000. Le paysage est vallonné, le sol recouvert de sable et le ciel poussiéreux.
© NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/Thomas Appéré

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Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Moonrise over the Philippine Sea - From Simeon Schmauß (stim3on.bsky.social) - flic.kr/p/2q8kP47

Astronaut Matthew Dominick took this picture of a crescent moonrise on July 6th 2024, while flying above the Philippine Sea. The shadowed side of the moon is illuminated by earthshine.

This is an HDR stack of images ISS071-E-310105 to ISS071-E-310108. I really should have chosen ISS071-E-310102 to ISS071-E-310105 which were from the same sequence and had therefore less parallax.
But even then, the automatic HDR alignment in Lightroom didn't work for this sequence, so I exported the sequence with the same settings applied to each image and aligned and merged them manually in Gimp.

original: eol.jsc.nasa.gov/SearchPhotos/photo.pl?mission=ISS071&amp...

Credit: Matthew Dominick / NASA JSC / ESRS / Simeon Schmauß

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ESO @eso.org · 31/08/2026

A rare snowy day for the ELT ❄️ Two weeks ago northern Chile was affected by severe weather. It caused damage to several cities and brought snow to our observatories, leaving stunning imagery like this drone video of our Extremely Large Telescope. 🔭 1/2

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Seán Doran @theseaning.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

'Curvature of Earth' 200 photographs by Chris Williams on ISS Expedition 74 are cropped, resized, repaired, remastered & retimed to create this video of vertical cloud stacks looming over the limb of Earth, with music by Chris Zabriskie. 03m52s 4k60 youtu.be/3M82_OjSgiM

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ISS - Curvature of Earth · 4K

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Simeon Schmauß @stim3on.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Yesterday, the NASA Perseverance rover captured this view of Mars' moon Phobos. The large crater Stickney is visible in the top left of the moon. 🔭🧪 flic.kr/p/2sxUsq4 Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/Simeon Schmauß

A potato shaped object with small dimples and craters is seen against a black sky.

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Seán Doran @theseaning.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

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Kevin M. Gill @kevinmgill.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Mars' moon Phobos captured by the Perseverance Rover using MastCam-Z on Sol 1961 (yestersol). flic.kr/p/2sxAFSx

A lumpy, pear-shaped gray moon. The sunlit side is a crescent with some higher terrains beyond that illuminated. The darker side has a faint reddish marsshine glow to it. That marsshine reveals a large depression at Phobos' top left which maaaaaaaaaaaaaay be the crater Stickney.

NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/MSSS/Kevin M. Gill

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Kevin M. Gill @kevinmgill.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

The clouds cleared just long enough to get a shot of tonight's lunar eclipse :-) flic.kr/p/2sxJtCP

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Judy Schmidt @geckzilla.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

I have been working on NGC 2392 (Lion Nebula) bit by bit over the past couple of weeks. Pretty happy with it! As always, high quality image and perhaps overly verbose information is available at my Flickr gallery: flic.kr/p/2swHfCQ

A heavenly view of one of our friendly neighborhood planetary nebulas, the Lion Nebula. It's circular in appearance with cometary knots streaming outward from the center, making up the "hair" of the lion's mane. The lion's face is a brightly outlined inner shell that kinda looks like a spaghetti nest with a bright star nestled in the center. Numerous background galaxies are sprinkled around the image, along with a handful of stars. The lion has a blueish mane and a pinkish face with a deep, dark cyan center. The background galaxies are subtly colored with yellows, oranges, and reds. The few stars are more or less white.

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Riding With Robots @ridingrobots.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

There was a period of several years where we would just get photos like this beamed down from Saturn on the daily.

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Melina Thévenot🏳️‍⚧️ @melina-iras07572.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Light echo #Luna, produced by the Cassiopeia A #supernova. 🔭🧪 The supernova light reached earth around the 1660s (no secure observation), so this light did take a detour of around 365 years. program: www.stsci.edu/jwst-program...

White light echo with rainbow colored edges, showing the movement over time.

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Simeon Schmauß @stim3on.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Couldn't make it to Spain for the eclipse, but went flying with a group of friends to pull off this unique shot. #avgeek #eclipse

A glider plane with elegant and sleek silhouette is flying next to the crescent eclipsed sun in a golden evening light.

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Astronomy Picture of the Day 🪐 @apod.shinyakato.dev · 13/08/2026

🔭 Total Solar Eclipse Over Spain Image Credit & Copyright: Ruiyu Zhang Text: Keighley Rockcliffe (NASA GSFC, UMBC CSST, CRESST II) ap260813

The Moon covers the Sun in the middle of the sky above an ornate church. A ring of bright whisps from the Sun's corona surrounds the Moon. In front of the church is a river that shows ripples across the eclipse's reflection. Some people are boating in the river.

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Landru79 @landru79.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

James #Webb Space Telescope #JWST NIRCam and MIRI observations of a double-shell planteray nebula #Double-Shell-PN #wee bonnie nebula 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 2025-11-19 Garcia Marin, Macarena MIRI 1500 1000 770 NIRCAM f470 f444 f335 f212 f187 f115 yuval-harpaz.github.io/astro/jwst_l... NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI/j. Roger

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 14/10/2023

🌓🌎🌞 <-- lunar eclipse  🌎🌓🌞 <-- solar eclipse  🌎🌞🌗 <-- apocalypse

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