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Viu Mobile @viumobile.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Advanced civilizations could leave behind gravitational disturbances. If a civilization has stellar scale tech, we can't see the engineering directly, we can hunt for unexplained anomalies it creates in how nearby stars move. This is the premise of the survey I pre-registered. #Cosmology #Aliens
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Viu Mobile @viumobile.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
#JWST image of the pillars of creation was outstanding.. Though I think @NasaWebb or @ESA_Webb could do better with their images. See below. Using their dataset. Resolution can be improved, no AI. The full resolution image can be found here: stsci-opo.org/STScI-01GGF8... #Astronomy #Cosmology
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Viu Mobile @viumobile.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Alternative hypothesis for Tabby’s Star: a massive companion carries a swarm of moons, rubble and debris. Collisions create submicron dust, then the star’s radiation pressure strips the fine grains into circumstellar streams that cause the dips. #TabbysStar #Astronomy #Astrophysics
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Viu Mobile @viumobile.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
#UGM02 (Zenodo) reaches the same channel-degeneracy conclusion mainstream multi-wavelength follow-up already targets via a structural argument, not an empirical one. #M81/#M82 are the closest analogs; Omega Cen/M1 are resolution controls. youtu.be/6iq-CvbRExo?...
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Viu Mobile @viumobile.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Earth’s 16s & 26s seismic bands remain unexplained. Classical models best fit today’s data; UGM suggests a testable first-principles hypothesis linking ocean triggers, Pc3 magnetic gating, retained energy and Earth’s geoid. #UGM02 Zenodo #Geophysics #EarthScience
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Viu Mobile @viumobile.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Little Red Dots #LRDs are baffling astronomy. Many theories try to explain them; few make falsifiable predictions. #UGM02 does. Using GLIMPSE-17775, it offers a testable framework with clear observational predictions. doi.org/10.5281/zeno... #JWST #Cosmology #Astophysics
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Viu Mobile @viumobile.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
@whatdamath.bsky.social The strongest #UGM02 (Zenodo) signal isn't the maps themselves; it's that UGM’s L6 primitive appears to force a nonzero fourth-moment residue in 3D, giving a concrete mechanism for why DESI, COSMOS-Web, and SPICE-RACS might share the same anisotropic relaxation fingerprint.
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Viu Mobile @viumobile.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Observation: RAPID #AMOC minima line up better with prior solar magnetic-cycle maxima when shifted ~21 yrs, in anti-phase. Not proof, just a lag test worth checking. #NOCnews #NWSSWPC #NatSolarObs
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Viu Mobile @viumobile.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Physics equations mostly work forward or backward in time. The arrow appears because irreversible changes write history into reality. Time may not be a clock at all, but the accumulation of memory through structure. doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
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Viu Mobile @viumobile.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
#HubbleTension has a solution! @Nasawatch.bsky.social @ESA.int @vrubinobs.bsky.social will find a value of 71.63 km/s/Mpc 2.076 is the effective burden. The extra 0.076 is the small non-relay correction from channel depth, calibration, selection, or scalar-loading terms.
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Viu Mobile @viumobile.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
#Hubble_Tension? Under #UGM, there is no global expansion to reconcile. Observables are projections of admissible, memory-constrained evolution, & different measurement paths sample different memory regimes. @hossenfelder.bsky.social 🤔😮😊 doi.org/10.5281/zeno... doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
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Viu Mobile @viumobile.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
#AI won’t achieve consciousness with binary memory. The below prompts prove it. Can LLM’s infer time? Without time, their grasp of past, now, future becomes a hallucination, without it, they can’t determine outcomes in a temporal sense. Analyzing & understanding are different. LLM’S replies:
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Viu Mobile @viumobile.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Pre-data LSST predictions (Feb 25, 2026): fixed-parameter gravity scaling model with explicit coherence bounds and falsifiers. Testable against Rubin survey data. #LSST #VeraRubin #Cosmology #Gravity Posted last year on X. x.com/i/status/199...
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Viu Mobile @viumobile.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Do all galaxies rotate? Then look at Andromeda #M31 #M32 #M110 and all satellite galaxies are on the same side, though #M31's disk is flat with no stellar streams or disk flapping. 500 globular clusters & #M32, and #M31's disk is pristine? How is this possible?
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Viu Mobile @viumobile.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
Loophole-free Bell tests measure B > 2 at 11σ, ruling out local pre-existing properties. Radiation pressure assumes intrinsic photon momentum. Should precision optical tests verify F/P is strictly invariant across boundary conditions? #science #Astronomy #physics
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Viu Mobile @viumobile.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
Jupiter & Saturn: chaos or constrained states? Jupiter: belt edges show plateaus + jumps (“memory”). Saturn’s hexagon: random walk or phase-locked? If Var[θ(t)] ∝ t → random. If Var bounded → constrained. Cassini + amateurs decide. #PlanetaryScience
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Viu Mobile @viumobile.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
We don’t measure infinite density, infinite curvature, or infinite anything. We infer them from equations. That’s a difference worth examining. If every experiment returns finite values, why do our core theories produce non-physical ones? Are singularities discoveries or failure modes?
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Viu Mobile @viumobile.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Inventing dark matter/energy to save equations rivals ether & Earth-centered cosmology. When models failed, physics assumed the universe was invisible. Instead of fixing the math, physics ASSUMED invisibility & squandered decades, talent, and billions chasing the patch.
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Viu Mobile @viumobile.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
#Science #Astronomy On Nov 29, 2025, we posted what science didn't know about the #HelixNebula. x.com/viumobile/st... It also included equations that predicted the knots, that current physics couldn't resolve. Attached are the updates for the new high res image.
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Viu Mobile @viumobile.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Some model observed phenomena. Others constrain the rules by which phenomena can exist at all. This equation defines the rules by which the Universe behaves and exists; familiar equations emerge as approximations of that rule under specific conditions. #Science #Astronomy #Physics #Cosmology
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Viu Mobile @viumobile.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Euclid won't "find" dark matter or dark energy as things; it will map where our descriptions break down Persistent, organized mismatches aren't noise; they're the signal. #5_Rules_of_the_Universe #Cosmology #DarkMatter #Physics #LambdaCDM #HubbleTension #Astromomy #Astrophysics
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Viu Mobile @viumobile.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
I propose ​a possible #FermiParadox answer: ​Life is common enough to exist. Intelligence is rare enough to feel alone. ​🟢=Microbes 🟠=Intelligence #SETI #Astrobiology #Technosignatures #GalacticHabitableZone #GaiaData #GaiaDR2 #DESI #Cosmology #Ai #Intelligence
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Viu Mobile @viumobile.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
@fcain.universetoday.com Have you looked closely at #M31 & #M32? #M32 shows no clear stellar debris, Andromeda’s gas is disturbed while stars aren’t? How do you explain that? Dr Chaos, really? 1k+ yrs since m31 was seen 400+ since the telescope 30+ trying to determine M32s orbit #Astronomy
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Simeon Schmauß @stim3on.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
Last night, NASA's Perseverance rover looked up at the night sky once more, to capture interstellar #comet 3I/Atlas flying by the red planet. The distance was "only" 0.2 AU or 30 Mio km, far closer than the comet ever got to Earth. 🔭 #3IAtlas Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/Simeon Schmauß
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Viu Mobile @viumobile.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
#3IAtlas #3I/Atlas view from Mars: 1st: mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/mul... Mars_Perseverance_NLE_1643_0812830488_112ECM_N0790870NCAM00234_09_0LLJ 2nd: Stretched, stars in focus, comet/coma/debris is not, they are closer to mars. 3rd 3300x of Image 1 4th Integrated out of focused image.
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Thomas Hanrath @astrocamp.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
NGC 6940 is an open star cluster in Vulpecula, about 2,500 ly from Earth, and is best observed end of July. Detailed Information: astrocamp.eu/en/ngc-6940/ ▼ Baader Apo 95 CaF2 | Canon EOS R(a) '24 #astrophotography #nightsky #space #astronomy #telescope #clearsky #photography #nature
NGC 6940
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Viu Mobile @viumobile.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
X.com is a joke. It has flagged me as a bot. Seems that I am not the only one. Good ridance!
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Viu Mobile @viumobile.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
#Astrophotography #Photography #Astronomia apod.shinyakato.dev profabelmendez.bsky.social hossenfelder.bsky.social neildegrassetyson.com @apod.npub.pro.web.brid.gy #Veil_Nebula Mosaic #NGC6960, #NGCC6992, #NGC6995, #NGC6974, #NGC6979 30 min Exposure Aug 9th, 2025 near Oakland TX
#Veil Nebula
#NGC6960, 
#NGCC6992,
#NGC6995,
#NGC6974, 
#NGC6979

30 min Exposure Aug 9th, 2025 near Oakland TX

Taken with a 3" APO AT80EDT
ZWO ASI2600 Duo 120s 15 subs for 30 min
AM5N Mount

Processed with:

GraXpert, Cosmic Clarity/Seti Astro, GIMP

It constitutes the visible portions of the Cygnus Loop, a supernova remnant, many portions of which have acquired their own individual names and catalogue identifiers. The source supernova was a star 20 times more massive than the Sun which exploded between 10,000 and 20,000 years ago. At the time of the explosion, the supernova would have appeared brighter than Venus in the sky, and visible in the daytime.

Located 2400 ly away
Spans 13 min in size
50-65 ly across
App Mag 7

It is located in Cygnus

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Viu Mobile @viumobile.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
#Astrophotography #Photography #Astronomia apod.shinyakato.dev profabelmendez.bsky.social hossenfelder.bsky.social neildegrassetyson.com @apod.npub.pro.web.brid.gy #North_American_Nebula #NGC7000 24 min exposure on Aug 9th, 23:20CST 2025 near Oakland TX. Details in Alt section within the image.
#North_American_Nebula
#NGC7000

24 min exposure on Aug 9th, 23:20CST 2025 near Oakland TX.

Taken with an 3" APO AT80EDT
ZWO ASI2600 DUO 120s exposures for 24 minutes on an AM5N mount.

It was catalogued by his son John Herschel on August 21, 1829. It was listed as NGC 7000, where it is described as a "faint, most extremely large, diffuse nebulosity.” 

In 1890, German astro-photographer Max Wolf dubbed it the North America Nebula.


Located 2590 ly away
Spans 120 × 100 arc min in size
45y across
App Mag 4

It is located in Cygnus

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Viu Mobile @viumobile.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
‪#Astrophotography #Photography #Astronomia apod.shinyakato.dev profabelmendez.bsky.social hossenfelder.bsky.social neildegrassetyson.com apod.npub.pro.web.brid.gy astrojaz.bsky.social‬ #VeraRubin_Enhanced_Images seeing behind the haze of #NGC4535 Original - left Enhanced - right
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Viu Mobile @viumobile.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
#Astrophotography #Photography #Astronomia apod.shinyakato.dev profabelmendez.bsky.social hossenfelder.bsky.social neildegrassetyson.com @apod.npub.pro.web.brid.gy #VeraRubin_Enhanced_Images reveal hidden details of hazy galaxies Original on the left Enhanced on the right
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Viu Mobile @viumobile.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
#Astrophotography #Photography #Astronomia apod.shinyakato.dev profabelmendez.bsky.social hossenfelder.bsky.social neildegrassetyson.com @apod.npub.pro.web.brid.gy #M13 #NGC6205 #Hercules_Globular_Cluster Difference between 20 min and 44 min.
#M13 #NGC6205 #Hercules_Globular_Cluster

20 min exposure on May 3rd 2025 @ the George Observatory.

Taken with an 3" APO AT80EDT
ZWO ASI2600 DUO 30s exposures for 20 minutes on an AM5N mount.

Messier 13 was discovered by Edmond Halley in 1714,[2] and cataloged by Charles Messier on June 1, 1764.

Located 22200 ly away
20 arc min in size
84ly across
11.65 Gyr in age


©Viumobile#M13 #NGC6205 #Hercules_Globular_Cluster

44 min exposure on May 3rd 2025 / Jun 6th 2025 @ the George Observatory.

Taken with an 3" APO AT80EDT
ZWO ASI2600 DUO 30s exposures for 20 minutes on an AM5N mount.

Messier 13 was discovered by Edmond Halley in 1714,[2] and cataloged by Charles Messier on June 1, 1764.

Located 22200 ly away
20 arc min in size
84ly across
11.65 Gyr in age


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Viu Mobile @viumobile.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
#Astrophotography #Photography #Astronomia apod.shinyakato.dev profabelmendez.bsky.social hossenfelder.bsky.social neildegrassetyson.com @apod.npub.pro.web.brid.gy #M17 - #Omega_Nebula - #NGC6618 #M16 - #Eagle_Nebula - #NGC6611 34 min (120s Subs) with a 3" APO
M17 - Omega Nebula - NGC 6618
M16 - Eagle Nebula - NGC 6611

Taken with an 3" APO AT80EDT
ZWO ASI2600 DUO 30s exposures for 34 minutes
on an AM5N mount

Processed in:

DSS
GraxPert
CosmicClarity
SetiAstro
Gimp


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Viu Mobile @viumobile.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
#Astrophotography #Photography #Astronomia apod.shinyakato.dev profabelmendez.bsky.social hossenfelder.bsky.social neildegrassetyson.com @apod.npub.pro.web.brid.gy #Omega_Centauri #NGC5139 This photo was taken with an #zwoastro #S50 telescope 40 (10 s) exposures.
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Viu Mobile @viumobile.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
#Astrophotography #Photography #Astronomia apod.shinyakato.dev profabelmendez.bsky.social hossenfelder.bsky.social neildegrassetyson.com @apod.npub.pro.web.brid.gy #MilkyWay #Via_Lactea #Apple #IPhone works great for videos, though if you want Astro photos, #Google #PixelPro9XL is hard to beat!
GraXpert: Denoise
Cosmic Clarity: Denoise
Seti Astro: SNO, SN0, Back Ground Extraction + Galaxy Star Split.
Gimp 3.0: Saturation, and image recombination.
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Viu Mobile @viumobile.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
#Astrophotography #Photography #Astronomia apod.shinyakato.dev profabelmendez.bsky.social hossenfelder.bsky.social neildegrassetyson.com @apod.npub.pro.web.brid.gy #M13 #NGC6205 #Hercules_Globular_Cluster 20 min exposure on May3rd 2025 @ the George Observatory
#Astrophotography #Photography  #Astronomia
apod.shinyakato.dev
profabelmendez.bsky.social
hossenfelder.bsky.social
neildegrassetyson.com
@apod.npub.pro.web.brid.gy


#M97 - #Owl_Nebula #NGC3587

20 min exposure on May3rd 2025 @ the George Observatory


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Viu Mobile @viumobile.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
#Astrophotography #Photography #Astronomia apod.shinyakato.dev profabelmendez.bsky.social hossenfelder.bsky.social neildegrassetyson.com @apod.npub.pro.web.brid.gy #M97 - #Owl_Nebula #NGC3587 20 min exposure on May3rd 2025 @ the George Observatory
#M97 - #Owl Nebula #NGC3587

20 min exposure on May3rd 2025 @ the George Observatory.

Taken with an 3" APO AT80EDT
ZWO ASI2600 DUO 30s exposures for 20 minutes on an AM5N mount

Distance 2030ly

Dimension 3'4 x 3'3

Apparent Mag = 9.9
Constellation Ursa Major

0.13 Solar Mases about 8000 years old.

The center star is 14th mag, condensing into a white dwarf.

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Viu Mobile @viumobile.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
#IntelligenceTest can you decode the following signal from space? 1111 @10ms 2s gap 11000111101 @5ms 1s gap 11101001 @5ms 1s gap 101 @5ms 1s gap 1 @5ms 2s gap 1111 @10ms 15-20 min gap repeat Repeats @ irregular periods. LLMs wont help.
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Viu Mobile @viumobile.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
#Astrophotography #Photography #Astronomia apod.shinyakato.dev profabelmendez.bsky.social hossenfelder.bsky.social neildegrassetyson.com @apod.npub.pro.web.brid.gy The #Ealge_Nebula #M16 2 #NGC6611 24 minute exposure on May 3rd, 2025 at the #GeorgeObservatory in Houston
#M016
#Eagle_Nebula
#NGC6611

24 min exposure at the George Observatory on May 3rd 2025, using an AT80EDT telescope with a ZWO2600DUO camera, at 100 Gain, 2 minute subs.

The images was processed with GraXpert, CosmicClarity, Gimp
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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
this is one of those space images that’s “so beautiful it looks like a painting” 🌌
A spiral galaxy seen at a skewed angle. Its centre is a bright spot radiating light. A thick, stormy disc of material surrounds this, with swirling strands of dark dust and bright spots of star formation strewn through the disc. A large spiral arm extends from the disc towards the viewer. Some foreground stars are visible atop the galaxy.
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Viu Mobile @viumobile.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
#Astrophotography #Photography #Astronomia apod.shinyakato.dev profabelmendez.bsky.social hossenfelder.bsky.social neildegrassetyson.com @apod.npub.pro.web.brid.gy The #Trifid_Nebula #M20 and #Lagoon_Nebula #M8 50 minute exposure through out 2025.
#Trifid_Nebula #M20 #NGC6514
#Lagoon_Nebula #M8 #NGC6523  

Trifid Nebula is located 4100 light years away,   The red color comes from Hydroge, and the blue from ionized oxygen.  It contains a stellar nursery.


Lagoon Nebula is 4100ly away with a visual magnitude of 4.6 it is 55 x 20 ly across located in the constellation of Sagittarius.  The dark globules are collapsing star formation structures call Bok Globules

The funnel like structure is produced by hot 0-Type stars that irradiates ultraviolet light

Taken with an 3" APO AT80EDT
ZWO ASI2600 DUO 30s exposures for 50 minutes
on an AM5N mount

Processed in:

DSS
GraxPert
CosmicClarity
SetiAstro
Gimp


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Viu Mobile @viumobile.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
#Astrophotography #Photography #Astronomia @apod.npub.pro.web.brid.gy @lando78.bsky.social @skyandtelescope.bsky.social @multiverse01.bsky.social @apod.shinyakato.dev For those looking for higher resolution images, you can find them on the following link: photos.app.goo.gl/U8WuJQvmKaVh...
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AstroPhotos from George Observatory (Volunteer-Group)
28 new items · Album by Gabriel Villarroel
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ESA Space Science @science.esa.int · 23/04/2025
Happy anniversary, Hubble! 🎂 Celebrate 35 years since this NASA/ESA space telescope was launched into orbit with four anniversary images! They roam from the planet Mars to dramatic images of stellar birth and death to a neighbouring galaxy. Read more 👉 www.esa.int/Science_Expl... #Hubble35 🔭 🧪
Two views of planet Mars on a black background of space observed by the Hubble Space Telescope. At left, text: December 28, 2024 20:00 UT. At right, text: December 29, 2024 13:18 UT. In both images, its atmosphere is clear and the surface appears detailed. Most of the planet is shades of orange. At left, the brightest orange area appears in the left half. At right, the brightest orange area is centered and takes on the rough shape of a sleeping mask. In both views, darker surface features are noticeable on the lower half of the planet. These have a mix of orange, blue, and gray hues. At the top and bottom, white regions mark the planet’s polar caps. The entire limb of the planet, its visible edge, has a blue hue. The blue doesn’t form an even circle at the edges, and appears thinner toward the left and right, and thicker in some areas.The planetary nebula NGC 2899 is shaped like a single macaroni noodle, with its edges pointed up, but its edge-on central torus is semi-transparent in the middle. The top and bottom edges are thick and orange. The center is semi-transparent blue and green. The wider central region looks roughly like a moth, also filled with semi-transparent blue and green. There are two pinpoint-like white stars with diffraction spikes toward the center. Immediately below them, slightly toward the right, is a smaller blue orb, a central star. The next layer of gas and dust is whiter, with some thicker pillars that look like they are rising up at bottom center. The colour fades into reds and purples, and then to orange.A tiny portion of the Rosette Nebula. Very dark gray material shaped like a V extends from just below top left all the way down to the lower right corner and back up toward the top right. It looks like thick smoke that has billowed out irregularly, thicker along the line from top left to bottom right, and looser on the piece that goes toward the top right. Behind the dark gray on the left side, from the bottom left to top center, there is dust that looks like arced claw marks that appears in light orange and yellow. The background at top left is hazier and some blues are covered in semi-transparent orange wisps, which makes sections take on green hues. In the bottom right, the background is bluer. There are a few bright red and purple stars scattered along the right half, most toward the bottom. The largest star is at right-center, just at the edge. It is red and has four diffraction spikes.Barred spiral galaxy NGC 5335 observed by the Hubble Space Telescope takes up the majority of the view. At its center is a milky yellow, flattened oval that extends bottom left to top. Within the oval is a bright central region that looks circular, with the very center the brightest. In the bright central region is what looks like a bar, extending from top left to bottom right. Around this is a thick swath of blue stars speckled with white regions. Multiple arms wrap up and around in a counterclockwise direction, becoming fainter the farther out they are. Both the white core and the spiral arms are intertwined with dark streaks of dust. The background of space is black. Thousands of distant galaxies in an array of colors are speckled throughout.
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Yuval Harpaz 𝚿👨‍🎓 📊🌌🔭 @yuvharpaz.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
NGC 5455 by #JWST 🔭, NIRCam. This is a nebula within M101, the Pinwheel Galaxy. There were only 2 filters available (more are coming on June) so I used one filter from a previous shot (target name "MESSIER 101"). See below cruder but larger images of the region.
Near-infrared image of NGC 5455, a nebula in the galaxy M101, captured by JWST's NIRCam. The image reveals a glowing, cloudy nebula with wisps of gas and dust surrounding a dense cluster of bright stars. The background is filled with a rich field of green and red-tinted stars and distant galaxies, highlighting the depth of the universe in infrared light.
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Viu Mobile @viumobile.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
#Astrophotography #Photography #Astronomia apod.shinyakato.dev profabelmendez.bsky.social hossenfelder.bsky.social neildegrassetyson.com @apod.npub.pro.web.brid.gy #M42 #Orion_Nebula Old favorite, focus & stability could have been better, though for 15min, this is not bad. Same equipment.
#M42
#Orion_Nebula
#Running_Man

#AT80EDT 3" APO with 0.8 reducer
#ASI2600DUO #ZWO camera
#AMN5 Mount

15 min 30s exposur
20 sec subs
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Viu Mobile @viumobile.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
#Astrophotography #Photography #Astronomia apod.shinyakato.dev profabelmendez.bsky.social hossenfelder.bsky.social neildegrassetyson.com @apod.npub.pro.web.brid.gy Was not happy with the #M51 image due to the color Balance, here is a new version with better color correction. More photos later!
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Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
Atoms for Peace Galaxy (NGC 7252 / Arp 226) - From Rolf Wahl Olsen - flic.kr/p/ddg1vs
This peculiar galaxy is the result of a merger between two separate disc galaxies which has now just entered the phase of settling down. The two original galaxy cores have recently merged leaving giant arcs and swirls of the collision still remaining in orbit around the now combined centre.
The resulting structure is known as the Atoms for Peace Galaxy, named for its resemblance to the traditional depiction of an atom, with electrons orbiting the central nucleus. The name was directly inspired by the famous Atoms for Peace speech given by U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower before the United Nations  in 1953.
 
This intriguing galaxy is located in Aquarius at a distance of 220 million light years. The outer loops and especially the long ejecta streams are very faint, but the core shines relatively brightly as a stellar point. The combined magnitude of the system is 12.7 within an area of approximately 1.9 x 1.6 arc minutes.
The galaxy is also known as Arp 226, the 226th entry in Arp’s list of peculiar galaxies.
Also visible in the background are numerous distant background galaxies.

Within the swirls of the collision are numerous bright knots some of which are young ultra-luminous globular clusters containing up to a million hot blue stars each. Several hundreds of these exist near the core of the galaxy.
It is known that giant elliptical galaxies often contain a vast amount of globular clusters, for example the galaxy M87 in Virgo contains over 12,000 globulars. These ar...
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Dylan O’Donnell @dylanodonnell.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
This very long photo is the result of the QHY Minicam8's quite long sensor! Great Carina Nebula... 📷 Apertura 75Q Itty Bitty Frac 405mm / F5.4 QHY Minicam 8 Camera SkyWatcher GTI Mount HaGO-RGB 30 x 1m Ha 30 x 1m  O[III] 24 x 1m  Red 27 x 1m Green 24 x 1m Blue Total : 2.25 hours
You know what they say about a guy with a long photo…
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Viu Mobile @viumobile.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
#Astrophotography #Photography #Astronomia apod.shinyakato.dev profabelmendez.bsky.social hossenfelder.bsky.social neildegrassetyson.com @apod.npub.pro.web.brid.gy #M51 #NGC5194 #WhirlPool_Galaxy From the #George_Observatory on April 11th, 2025 60 min with #AT80EDT & #ASI2600DUO
#M51
#Whirlpool_Galaxy
#NGC5194

#ZWO #AM5N mount using a 3"APO #Astrotech #AT80EDT  ZWO #ASI2600DUO at 100 gain 2 min subs 60 minute integration

Processed in:

Cosmic Clarity
GraXpert
SetiAstro
Gimp
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Viu Mobile @viumobile.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
#Astrophotography #Photography #Astronomia apod.shinyakato.dev profabelmendez.bsky.social hossenfelder.bsky.social neildegrassetyson.com @apod.npub.pro.web.brid.gy #M101 #NGC5457 #Pinwheel_Galaxy
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Central TX Feb 2nd, 2025

#AT80EDT on an #AM5N Mount using a #ZWO #ASI2600DUO camera at 100 Gain.

Processed in GraXpert, SetiAstro, CosmicClarity & Gimp3.
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