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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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Astrophysica @thephysicsjournal.substack.com · 26/06/2026
Light wave captured at 10 trillion frames per second taken by TheSlowMoGuys.
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Astrophysica @thephysicsjournal.substack.com · 13/04/2026
Galaxy cluster, Abell S1063, located 4.5 billion light-years away. The characteristic signs of gravitational lensing can also be seen in this Hubble Space Telescope photo. (NASA, ESA, and M. Montes, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia)
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Astrophysica @thephysicsjournal.substack.com · 30/03/2026
The Tulip Nebula, also known as SH2-101, located 8,000 light years away in the constellation Cygnus. It is an emission nebula which means it emits its own light due to ionization from nearby young stars.
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Astrophysica @thephysicsjournal.substack.com · 19/02/2026
Copelandʼs Septet, a group of seven galaxies located about 480 million lightyears away in the constellation Leo. (KPNO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/Neil Jacobstein/Adam Block)
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Astrophysica @thephysicsjournal.substack.com · 19/02/2026
Infrared photo of the Horsehead Nebula. (NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team)
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Astrophysica @thephysicsjournal.substack.com · 18/02/2026
Hubble Space Telescope image of Mars.
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Astrophysica @thephysicsjournal.substack.com · 18/02/2026
The surface of Comet 67P as seen by the European Space Agency’s Rosetta lander in September 2014. (ESA/Rosetta/MPS for OSIRIS Team MPS/UPD/LAM/IAA/SSO/INTA/UPM/DASP/IDA; J. Roger – CC BY SA 4.0)
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Astrophysica @thephysicsjournal.substack.com · 18/02/2026
Some newborn stars eject powerful jets of ionized radiation, illuminating the surrounding gas clouds. These rare formations are known as herbig–haro objects. (ESA/Hubble & NASA, B. Nisini)
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Astrophysica @thephysicsjournal.substack.com · 17/02/2026
Image of the Cat’s Paw Nebula taken by the James Webb Space Telescope. It features concentric shells of gas and dust expanding outwards from a central, dying star. (NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI)
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Astrophysica @thephysicsjournal.substack.com · 16/02/2026
Photo of protoplanetary disk HH 30 in the Taurus Molecular Cloud taken by the James Webb Space Telescope. It contains a young star which emits a luminous jet of outflowing gas. (NASA/ESA/CSA)
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Astrophysica @thephysicsjournal.substack.com · 16/02/2026
NGC 5394 and NGC 5395, an interacting pair of galaxies in the Canes Venatici constellation. Their merger will be known collectively as the Heron Galaxy. (International Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA)
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Astrophysica @thephysicsjournal.substack.com · 16/02/2026
NGC 1333, a star-forming region located 1,000 light years from Earth and home to many energetic proto-stars less than a million years old. (T.A. Rector/University of Alaska Anchorage, H. Schweiker/WIYN and NOIRLab/NSF/AURA)
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Astrophysica @thephysicsjournal.substack.com · 15/02/2026
A star cluster known as G35.2-0.7N, a region of intense star formation. It is home to a massive B-type star that produces a protostellar jet. It is the source of the dust clouds which fill the center this image. (ESA/Hubble & NASA, R. Fedriani, J. Tan)
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Astrophysica @thephysicsjournal.substack.com · 15/02/2026
Wide-angle view of the Large Magellanic Cloud, one of the Milky Way’s satellite galaxies. (CTIO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/SMASH/D. Nidever, Travis Rector, Mahdi Zamani & Davide de Martin)
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Astrophysica @thephysicsjournal.substack.com · 15/02/2026
Spiral Galaxy IC 342 located roughly 11 million light-years from Earth. (NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/T.A. Rector (NSF NOIRLab/University of Alaska Anchorage) & H. Schweiker)
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Astrophysica @thephysicsjournal.substack.com · 15/02/2026
Photo depicting gravitational lensing around galaxy cluster CL0024+1654, located around 5 billion light years from Earth. The multiple blue loops scattered across the image are actually copies of the same distant spiral galaxy. (NASA, W.N. Colley and E. Turner, J.A. Tyson)
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Astrophysica @thephysicsjournal.substack.com · 15/02/2026
Nearby spiral galaxy, Messier 106. The supermassive black hole at its center produces two extra spiral arms, shown in green, composed of hot gas. (ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, J. Glenn)
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Astrophysica @thephysicsjournal.substack.com · 14/02/2026
The Double Helix Nebula, located only 300 light-years from the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way. Incredibly strong and twisted magnetic fields in this region of the galaxy give the nebula its unique geometry. (NASA/JPL-Caltech/M. Morris, UCLA)
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Astrophysica @thephysicsjournal.substack.com · 14/02/2026
Dwarf planet Eris situated near Pluto in the Kuiper Belt. Discovered in 2005, its atmosphere freezes into snow when it is farther from the Sun and thaws when it gets closer. Eris is slightly smaller than Pluto, but more massive. (Southwest Research Institute)
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Astrophysica @thephysicsjournal.substack.com · 14/02/2026
An interacting pair of galaxies known as IC 1623. As the galaxies merge, intense star formation is triggered which is accompanied by bright outbursts of radiation. (X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO; IR: NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI; Image Processing: NASA/CXC/SAO/L. Frattare and J. Major)
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Astrophysica @thephysicsjournal.substack.com · 14/02/2026
Photo of Pluto’s surface taken by the New Horizons spacecraft in 2015. Evidence can be seen for a cryovolcano, a type of volcano that spews out icy water, methane, or ammonia instead of molten rock. (NASA / Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory / Southwest Research Institute)
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Astrophysica @thephysicsjournal.substack.com · 14/02/2026
The Red Spider Nebula viewed through the James Webb Space Telescope. It was produced by a star like our Sun reaching the end of its life and shedding its outer layers into space. Radiation from the star’s exposed core continues to ionize clouds of outflowing gas. (NASA/ESA/CSA)
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Astrophysica @thephysicsjournal.substack.com · 14/02/2026
Galaxy group VV 166, located 300 million light years away. The arms of the spiral galaxy at the top, NGC 70, are distorted due to tidal interactions with neighboring galaxies. (International Gemini Observatory/AURA)
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Astrophysica @thephysicsjournal.substack.com · 10/02/2026
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Astrophysica @thephysicsjournal.substack.com · 02/10/2025
Comet 2I/Borisov as seen by the Hubble Space Telescope. The comet is believed to have arrived here from another planetary system elsewhere in our galaxy. (NASA, ESA, D. Jewitt (UCLA))
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Astrophysica @thephysicsjournal.substack.com · 02/10/2025
Galaxy cluster Abell 1185, known for its incredibly dynamic gravitational interactions. (ESA/Hubble & NASA)
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Astrophysica @thephysicsjournal.substack.com · 05/09/2025
Reflection Nebula NGC 1788. A reflection nebula is a cloud of gas and dust that does not emit light of its own. They only shine by reflecting light from nearby stars. (KPNO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/T.A. Rector, H. Schweiker & S. Pakzad) #nebula #universe #cosmos #stars #interstellar
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Astrophysica @thephysicsjournal.substack.com · 30/08/2025
The Taffy Galaxies, UGC 12914 and UGC 12915. They experienced a head on collision 25 million years ago which created a bridge of turbulent gas spanning the gap between them. (International Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA) #space #galaxies #cosmos #stars #astrophysics
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Astrophysica @thephysicsjournal.substack.com · 24/05/2025
Galaxy cluster Abell 1689 #space #galaxies #astrophysics #cosmos #science
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Astrophysica @thephysicsjournal.substack.com · 20/05/2025
Near-infrared image of Jupiter taken by the James Webb Space Telescope. In it you can see Jupiter’s auroras and rings as well as two of its moons, Amalthea and Adrastea. (NASA, ESA, CSA, Jupiter ERS Team; image processing by Ricardo Hueso and Judy Schmidt) #space #astrophysics #science
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Astrophysica @thephysicsjournal.substack.com · 17/05/2025
Planetary Nebulae NGC 6578
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Astrophysica @thephysicsjournal.substack.com · 26/04/2025
Globular cluster NGC 1805. The stars of this tight grouping in the Large Magellanic Cloud are 100 to 1000 times closer together than the nearest stars are to our Sun. (ESA/Hubble & NASA, J. Kalirai) #stars #galaxy #space #cosmos #science #astrophysics
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Astrophysica @thephysicsjournal.substack.com · 23/04/2025
Hubble image of galaxy NGC 5548. At its center is a supermassive black hole of 65 million solar masses. #galaxy #cosmos #space #blackhole #interstellar (ESA/Hubble and NASA.Davide de Martin)
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Astrophysica @thephysicsjournal.substack.com · 19/04/2025
Hubble image of a pair of merging galaxies known as NGC 4676. (NASA, Holland Ford, the ACS Science Team and ESA) #galaxy #space #cosmos #science #astrophysics
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Astrophysica @thephysicsjournal.substack.com · 10/04/2025
The Hourglass Nebula, MyCn18. This Hubble image depicts the ejection of stellar matter which accompanies the death of a star. #nebula #cosmos #space #science #stars #astrophysics (Raghvendra Sahai and John Trauger, the WFPC2 science team)
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Astrophysica @thephysicsjournal.substack.com · 30/03/2025
Ultraviolet image of the Crab Nebula, a supernova remnant located 6,500 light-years from Earth. #astrophysics #cosmos #nebula #interstellar #science #galaxy
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Astrophysica @thephysicsjournal.substack.com · 29/03/2025
Star cluster Pismis 24 hidden in nebula NGC 6357 at bottom. Part of the nebula is ionised by the youngest and bluest stars in Pismis 24. The intense ultraviolet radiation from the these stars heats the gas surrounding the cluster and creates a bubble in the nebula. #space #cosmos #astrophysics
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Astrophysica @thephysicsjournal.substack.com · 21/03/2025
Three light-years tall pillar of gas an dust known as the ‘Mystic Mountain.’ Located in the Carina nebula, infant stars buried inside it fire off jets of gas that can be seen streaming out from its peak. (M. Livio and the Hubble 20th Anniversary Team) #nebula #space #cosmos #astrophysics #stars
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Astrophysica @thephysicsjournal.substack.com · 15/03/2025
IC 142, a collection of stars in the Triangulum Galaxy. These stars share a common origin, but have become gravitationally unbound and are slowly moving apart. (NASA, ESA, and M. Durbin, J. Dalcanton, and B. F. Williams, University of Washington) #cosmos #astrophysics #stars #galaxy #space
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Astrophysica @thephysicsjournal.substack.com · 14/03/2025
Image of how the surface of Venus looks underneath its clouds using radar readings. Venus is around the same size and mass as the Earth. #astrophysics #space #NASA #science #universe #cosmos
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Astrophysica @thephysicsjournal.substack.com · 13/03/2025
The black hole at the center of M87. This was the first black hole image ever captured, released in April 2019. (Event Horizon Telescope collaboration) #astrophysics #cosmos #space #science #interstellar #galaxy
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Astrophysica @thephysicsjournal.substack.com · 11/03/2025
Jet of subatomic particles emerging from the M87 galaxy. These are produced by the supermassive black hole at its center. (NASA and the Hubble Heritage Team) #cosmos #galaxy #stars #space #interstellar
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Astrophysica @thephysicsjournal.substack.com · 09/03/2025
Pillars of gas and dust in the Orion Nebula. (M. Robberto and the Hubble Space Telescope Orion Treasury Project Team) #nebula #stars #astrophysics #space #cosmos
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Astrophysica @thephysicsjournal.substack.com · 07/03/2025
In this image a dark interstellar cloud in the Pleiades star cluster is being bombarded by light from an extremely bright star. As the star passes, light reflects of the nebula breaking up parts of it. (George Herbig and Theodore Simon,University of Hawaii) #astrophysics #nebula #space #stars
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Astrophysica @thephysicsjournal.substack.com · 06/03/2025
Messier 16, the Eagle Nebula. The ultraviolet radiation from the bright young stars in this Hubble image illuminates the surrounding dust clouds. (ESA/Hubble & NASA) #nebula #cosmos #astrophysics #space #galaxy #interstellar
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Astrophysica @thephysicsjournal.substack.com · 05/03/2025
Hubble image of open cluster, NGC 2164, in the the Large Magellanic Cloud. #cosmos #galaxy #stars #interstellar #space #astrophysics
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Astrophysica @thephysicsjournal.substack.com · 03/03/2025
Messier 8, the Lagoon nebula #nebula #galaxy #interstellar #stars #cosmos Credit: NASA, ESA, Digitized Sky Survey 2, Davide De Martin
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Astrophysica @thephysicsjournal.substack.com · 28/02/2025
This Hubble image of N81 depicts the birth of ultra-bright stars in the Small Magellanic Cloud. #interstellar #nebula #galaxy #cosmos #stars #astrophysics Credit: Mohammad Heydari-Malayeri (Paris Observatory, France), NASA/ESA
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Astrophysica @thephysicsjournal.substack.com · 26/02/2025
IC 63, the Ghost Nebula #nebula #universe #cosmos #space #interstellar
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