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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

TODAY’S NEW HUBBLE IMAGE SHOWING SPIRAL GALAXY NGC 5460 FROM 60 MILLION LIGHT-YEARS AWAY!!! 🌌

$A spiral galaxy seen close to face-on. The center of its disk is a bright, pale yellowish, oval shape. Spiral arms extend from either side of the oval through the disk on irregular paths. The arms hold bright bluish-white patches of stars that mark their extent. Distant background galaxies appear as small orangish blobs around the spiral galaxy. In the top-left corner, a nearby star shines brightly, diffraction spikes are radiating from it.$

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The Pinwheel Cluster (Messier 36) @ngc1960.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

The Jellyfish Nebula (IC 443) in January 2024 from Central Maryland with my #Seestar S50. One hour total exposure, processed in Siril and Google Photos. #astrophotography

An image of the supernova remnant IC 443, also known as the Jellyfish Nebula, featuring a semi-circular, shell-like structure of glowing gas illuminated by shockwaves. Numerous stars are visible in the dark sky surrounding the nebula.

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Jwst Feed @jwstfeed.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

New JWST image of protostar HH 30, with legend. 🔭 🧪

A close-in image of protoplanetary disc HH 30. Parts of the image are labelled “Jet” (above and below the disc), “Conical Outflow”, “Possible Spiral”, “Dark Lane”, “Disk”, and “Tail”. A scale marker in the bottom-left is labelled “300 au”; this is a little wider than the disc itself, but less wide than the conical outflows above and below the disc

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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

how it feels to drive at night with astigmatism:

$A wider field view of Westerlund 1. A dense cluster of bright stars, each with six large and two small diffraction spikes, due to the telescope’s optics. They have a variety of sizes depending on their brightness and distance from us in the cluster, and different colours reflecting different types of star. Patches of billowing red gas can be seen in and around the cluster, lit up by the stars. Small stars in the cluster blend into a background of distant stars and galaxies on black.$

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Michael Sheetz @michaelsheetz.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

SpaceX confirms that Starship broke apart during its ascent burn. A passenger on the Royal Caribbean cruise ship "Icon of the Seas" posted this video, with the ship's current location in the Atlantic matching other debris sightings. Video source: x.com/FlyerXT/stat...

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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

NEW HUBBLE IMAGE OF THE ORION NEBULA!!!! 🌌

An area in the Orion nebula filled with dark, puffy clouds. On the image’s right side is a large area of clouds crossed by a dark bar. The region glows in red and whitish colors lit by a protostar within. At the other side a large jet of material ejected by the protostar appears to be made of thin, wispy, blue, and pink clouds. A couple of foreground stars shine brightly in front of the nebula.

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Val @vtnt9.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

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Debra's Astrophotography @debraceravolo.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

This wild looking galaxy looks like it's on fire! Massive bursts of star formation at its core is expelling violent winds and blowing gas and dust out of the galaxy. This is M82, aka the Cigar Galaxy. I exposed my camera using my Ceravolo 300mm telescope for a total of 24 hours #astronomy #galaxies

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Jack Cousteau ⚓️ @angrywaterman.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

The explosion is over, but the consequences continue. About eleven thousand years ago, a star in the constellation of Vela could be seen to explode, creating a strange point of light briefly visible to humans living near the beginning of recorded history. /1

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Universal-Sci @universal-sci.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

A cosmic ocean of glowing hydrogen gas, along with small amounts of other elements such as oxygen and sulphur. Known as M17 (or the Swan or Omega Nebula), this star forming region resides 5,500 light-years from Earth. Credit: NASA, ESA and J. Hester (ASU)

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Jwst Feed @jwstfeed.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Almost every white pixel here is a star. NGC 3627: processed by @thocarp.bsky.social www.flickr.com/photos/19746... 🔭 🧪

The James Webb Space Telescope's Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) has unveiled the majestic spiral galaxy NGC 3627 in exquisite detail. The image showcases the galaxy's grand design, with prominent spiral arms winding outwards from a luminous central core. The arms are studded with clusters of young, hot stars, while the core harbors a supermassive black hole. The image also reveals a delicate dusting of interstellar dust lanes, tracing the galaxy's intricate structure.

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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

someone in my replies said hubble is “so 90s” and i just wanted to say this is the incredible beauty we’ve gotten from hubble over the years 🌌

The Crab Nebula's complex oval structure lies against a black background. On the nebula’s exterior lie curtains of glowing red and orange fluffy material. Interior to this outer shell lie large-scale loops of mottled filaments of yellow-white and green. Many points of blue-white light are visible within and around the nebula.

Three massive pillars of gas and dust extend upward through the image, in descending order of height from left to right. They are mostly opaque and dark brown, against a background of blue, green, and gold dust and gas. A few scattered pinkish stars are visible throughout.

Cosmic Reef. A massive, ridged region of dark red and blue gas and dust glows, covering most of the image. A smaller blue nebula shines to its lower left. Stars shine throughout.

Butterfly Nebula. Two enormous, knotted lobes of pink, red, and white gas and dust extend out from a central point and diagonally to the top right and lower left. The lobes resemble the wings of a butterfly, and they glow against black space dotted with more distant stars and galaxies.

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Astronomy 🔭 @astronomy.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

This image shows the Antennae Galaxies (NGC 4038 & NGC 4039), 60 million light-years away in Corvus. These galaxies are in the process of merging, creating tidal tails and bursts of star formation from their gravitational interaction. Photo Credit: Robert Gendler

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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

imagine telling me that 5 years later i’d be on the europa clipper team. life is so crazy, don’t EVER give up on your dreams.

A screenshot of an old tweet of mine from 2020 with two pictures of Europa side by side and text reading: “Europa, another beautiful ocean world that may hold the secrets to life.
NASA will be heading there with the Europa Clipper mission 🤩”

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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

genuinely this just became one of my favorite jwst images ever. it looks like a cosmic painting!!! what a GREAT way to start 2025.

$An infrared light echo traveling from the lower left through the upper right of the image. The image is speckled with dozens of white stars, some showing Webb’s signature 8-point diffraction spikes, against the black background of space. The image also shows tightly packed, glowing red filaments that resemble muscle fibers or wood grain.⁣ Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, J. Jencson (Caltech/IPAC)⁣$

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Space VFX @spacevfx.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

Fellow space travelers, cosmic souls, galactic trapeze artists, and celestial beings, Our journey of interstellar exploration together has only just begun! I hope you’re enjoying a peaceful Sunday; wishing you a week ahead filled with hope and inner growth.

This stunning image features a large planet, reminiscent of Saturn, adorned with vibrant, swirling rings. The planet's surface exhibits soft gradients of colors, creating a mesmerizing visual effect. The rings are prominent, displaying intricate patterns and layers that appear to glow against the backdrop of a starry space. Tiny white stars speckle the dark cosmos, enhancing the sense of depth and distance. The overall composition evokes a sense of cosmic beauty and wonder, making it a captivating representation of the universe's mysteries.

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Bryan I. @bryan-i-photo.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

One of my favorite images from 2024. The Soul Nebula, located in the constellation Cassiopeia. #astronomy #Photography #space #bluesky

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Dr Lori-Ann Foley @lafoley.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

More clear skies and my first chance this winter to enjoy the night sky: the nearly full moon, the Owl Cluster and the Blue Snowball Nebula. And, given the #unistellar #odyssey scopes are designed for deep space objects, I was pleased with my image of Mars - blurry but still showing features. 🥰

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Gordon Hundley @drgoon.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

This is the IC434 region, part of the Orion molecular cloud complex, which includes the Horsehead Nebula and the Flame nebula. #astronomy #astrophotography

IC434 is a region of ionized hydrogen in the constellation Orion. It is best known for a dark feature known as the Horsehead nebula.

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Nereide @drnereide.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

🧵 1/ Look at this marvel! The composite image, featuring the galaxy group Stephan's Quintet, combines Webb's infrared data with X-rays data by Chandra. Stefan's Quintet, along with other cosmic objects, is part of the first Webb's observations. ➡️ chandra.si.edu/photo/2022/c... 🔭 🧪 #extragalactic

This composite image features the galaxy group Stephan's Quintet,
combining Webb's infrared data with X-rays data by Chandra and
including infrared data from the Spitzer telescope (red, green, blue).
The JWST data (red, orange, yellow, green, blue) shows incredible
details of the galaxy interactions, including sweeping tails of gas
and bursts of star formation.
Stephan's Quintet is a visual grouping of five galaxies located about
290 Mly away in the constellation Pegasus; clockwise from upper left: NGC 7320, NGC 7319, NGC 7318 (a and b), NGC 7317.

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Astronomy 🔭 @astronomy.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

This infrared view of the Pleiades (M45), captured by WISE spacecraft. Light & winds from the cluster’s stars shape the dust into filaments. Located 450 light-years away in Taurus, the image spans about 20 light-years. Credit: WISE, IRSA, NASA Processing: Francesco Antonucci

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Vincent Ledvina @vincentledvina.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

Planning a trip up to the Last Frontier? Check out my travel guides now live on my website. I have guides to Anchorage and Fairbanks, check out Fairbanks here: theauroraguy.com/pages/fairba...

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European Space Agency @esa.int · 12/01/2025

📷 This NASA/ESA/CSA James #Webb Space Telescope image shows NGC 346, one of the most dynamic star-forming regions in nearby galaxies, and the study of which recently solved a puzzle by proving a controversial finding made using NASA/ESA #Hubble over 20 years ago! www.esa.int/Science_Expl... 🔭🧪

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Astronomy 🔭 @astronomy.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

The Crescent Nebula (NGC 6888), located 4,700 light-years away in Cygnus, was formed by the massive Wolf-Rayet star WR 136. About 250,000 years ago, the star’s strong winds compressed surrounding gas into glowing shells. WR 136 is expected to go supernova within a million years. Credit: Team ARO

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Peter Gao @planetarygao.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

After the Sunset

Dusk over the ocean from the Pacific Coast Highway near Waddell Beach

Dusk over the ocean from Scott Creek Beach with colorful clouds in the sky

Dusk over the ocean from Scott Creek Beach with a clear sky

Dusk over the ocean from Scott Creek Beach with a clear sky, a little later in the evening

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Kenzie ✨ @notknz.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

Do I love video games? Yes. Am I a terrible video game player? Also yes.

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moonshine @moonshinegnomie.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

NGC 2359 thors helmet. 8 hours of exposure time over the past week in my backyard with an astrotech 72 edii telescope and a sony a6300 camera #astrophotography #nightsky #photography

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Jwst Feed @jwstfeed.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

The Orion Bar region by JWST. 🔭 🧪

An image made of three panels. The largest on the left shows the NIRCam image of a nebula with two bright stars. A skewed box in the top-right points to a second panel on the right, with a MIRI image of that area. A tiny box in the centre of that panel is blown up in a third panel below, with a zoomed-in, combined MIRI and NIRCam image of a yellow and orange blob.

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Astronomy 🔭 @astronomy.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

This image shows two supernova remnants: SNR G179.0+02.6 (upper left) and the Spaghetti Nebula (lower right). Both are thousands of light-years away, about 40,000–50,000 years old, and similar in size. Credit: Stéphane Vetter (Nuits sacrées)

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Journaling Happiness @alycearmstrong.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

🔆Playing with Light🔆 Sunset in Switzerland Swiss landscapes. On a summer day in August, I managed to capture this spectacular view. A deep glacial valley, meandering river and contrasting colors of the sunset…. Jakub Perlikowski #photography … continued in the comments...

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Jwst Feed @jwstfeed.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

High resolution image of a heavy star. 🔭 🧪

$The luminous, hot star Wolf-Rayet 124 (WR 124) is prominent at the centre of the James Webb Space Telescope’s composite image combining near-infrared and mid-infrared wavelengths of light. The star displays the characteristic diffraction spikes of Webb’s Near-infrared Camera (NIRCam), caused by the physical structure of the telescope itself. NIRCam effectively balances the brightness of the star with the fainter gas and dust surrounding it, while Webb’s Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) reveals the nebula’s structure. Background stars and galaxies populate the field of view and peek through the nebula of gas and dust that has been ejected from the ageing massive star. A history of the star’s past episodes of mass loss can be read in the nebula’s structure. Rather than smooth shells, the nebula is formed from random, asymmetric ejections. Bright clumps of gas and dust appear like tadpoles swimming toward the star, their tails streaming out behind them, blown back by the stellar wind.$

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All the Galaxies! @allthegalaxies.galaxyzoo.org · 10/01/2025

A spiral 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 (227.32253, 11.17854). 40 volunteers classified this galaxy in Galaxy Zoo 2.

A spiral galaxy from the Galaxy Zoo 2 project, classified by 40 volunteers.

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FLAVOR FLAV ⏰ @flavorflav.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

The 13th Amendment allows for modern day SLAVE LABOR. They risking their lives for pennies.

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Journaling Happiness @alycearmstrong.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Alpha Male In Snow European Grey Wolf in highland snowstorm. Colin McLatchie #photography

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Wisdom from his many years.

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AstroRick @therickman.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Here's a few of my recent #Astrophotography pictures

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European Space Agency @esa.int · 09/01/2025

Hello @bsky.app, here's to looking into more #bluesky and beyond... 😉

Image of the Moon, on a background of the blackness of space, and foreground at right of Earth's atmosphere in shades of blue, taken by ESA astronaut André Kuipers from the ISS in 2012.

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Space VFX @spacevfx.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

My deepest condolences to those affected by the California wildfires and to all suffering from wars around the world. We are living in turbulent times; our planet shows its pain, and society remains divided. Hopefully, one day we’ll polarize our perspectives less and recognize the power in our unity

This stunning image captures a vibrant galaxy set against a backdrop of deep space. The galaxy displays a prominent spiral structure, with bright swirling arms composed of pink and blue hues that signify regions of star formation and interstellar matter. A bright core is evident at the center, radiating light and energy, while streams of gas and dust stretch outward, hinting at dynamic cosmic activity.

Surrounding the galaxy, an array of sparkling stars is scattered throughout the dark expanse, each varying in brightness and size, creating a sense of depth and vastness. The overall composition offers a breathtaking view of the universe, celebrating the intricate beauty of galactic formations and the mysteries that lie beyond our own planet.

This space artwork serves as an inspiring representation of astrophysical phenomena, evoking wonder and curiosity about the cosmos and our place within it.

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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

lots of devastation and negativity on the feed today. i know this won’t solve anything, but maybe it’ll make someone smile and just forget for a small moment. the beauty of the cosmos 🌌

Large orange, yellow, and red clouds of dust and gas tower in the image, interspersed with a few pink stars.

A spiral galaxy with a wide, oval-shaped disk. It has a shining spot at the center from which two curving, pale red spiral arms emerge, wrapping once each around the galaxy. They’re surrounded by a whirl of bright threads and patches of dust, with spots of star formation scattered throughout. The glow of the disk fades smoothly into the background where some patches of dust can be seen, as well as foreground stars.

The Orion Nebula is an expansive and cloudy cosmic landscape. Sweeping clouds that shine in pink, yellow, orange, and other colors are bright against the black backdrop of space. Big stars are forming and glowing within the nebula.

$Hundreds of stars and galaxies in varying shapes, sizes and colors on a black background. Two of the largest, most prominent stars can be found in the top left quadrant and near the bottom right edge, respectively. They are tinged with blue and have an eight-point diffraction spike pattern. Near the center of this image is the ZS7 system, made up of a merger between two galaxies and their black holes. The ZS7 system is not easily seen by the naked eye in this image, as it looks like very small red dots.$

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Jwst Feed @jwstfeed.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Galaxy cluster MACS0416. Home to "Mothra", an extremely distant star that is magnified by a factor of at least 4,000 times due to gravitational lensing. 🔭 🧪

A field of galaxies on the black background of space. In the middle, stretching from left to right, is a collection of dozens of yellowish spiral and elliptical galaxies that form a foreground galaxy cluster. Among them are distorted linear features created when the light of a background galaxy is bent and magnified through gravitational lensing. At centre left, a particularly prominent example stretches vertically about three times the length of a nearby galaxy. It is outlined by a white box, and a lightly shaded wedge leads to an enlarged view at the bottom right. The linear feature is reddish and curves gently. It is studded with about a half dozen bright clumps. One such spot near the middle of the feature is labelled “Mothra"

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SlingbladeWilly @slingbladewilly.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Good morning old friend

Winter sunrise photo of a giant old tree with pastel colors in the sky

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Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

100 Planetary Nebulas - From Judy Schmidt (geckzilla.bsky.social) - flic.kr/p/oUdGQB

I have updated this to remove Gomez's Hamburger, which is not a planetary nebula but rather a protoplanetary disk. The picturesque Hen 2-437 has taken its place. See previous version of the collage, now renamed "99 Planetary Nebulas" (I could put "And a Protoplanetary Disk" as a subtitle, hehe!) here.

Also, Flickr seems to be allowing me to upload the 10000 pixel wide version now. The previous one was uploaded at half that size. It was bugging out or something last time I tried.

Here is a copy of the original description for your convenience, since it still applies:
Inspired by insect illustration posters, this is a large collage of planetary nebulas I put together bit by bit as I processed them. All are presented north up and at apparent size relative to one another--I did not rotate or resize them in order to satisfy compositional aesthetics (if you spot any errors, let me know). Colors are aesthetic choices, especially since most planetary nebulas are imaged with narrowband filters.

How many of them can you identify?

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Space VFX @spacevfx.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Introducing the Freesia Nebula – celestial dust of interstellar dreams. Our telescope is pure science fiction. Designed to observe in the infrared spectrum, it allows us to peer deeper into the universe than any other device ever created. P.S. Img and narrative are fictional.

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Journaling Happiness @alycearmstrong.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Astro #photography ~ Paul Zizka’s images of the aurora borealis above Division Mountain and the Lyell Icefall, deep in the Banff backcountry of Canada.

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