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Stargazing with Waddensky @waddensky.com · 9h
Image: NASA, ESA, and STScI, CC BY 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/...). Source: esahubble.org/images/heic1...
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Stargazing with Waddensky @waddensky.com · 9h
Meet the #SouthernCrabNebula, seen by #Hubble. A red giant’s shed gas falls onto a white dwarf companion, which blasts it out again in eruptions. It lies about 7,000 light-years away in Centaurus. 📸 NASA/ESA/STScI #Astrophotography #Astronomy
Hubble image of the Southern Crab Nebula: two nested hourglass shapes of glowing gas in blue, orange and red, extending up and down from a bright central star, against a field of stars.
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Stargazing with Waddensky @waddensky.com · 30/09/2026
Image: NASA/SDO (AIA). Public domain. Source: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Th...
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Stargazing with Waddensky @waddensky.com · 30/09/2026
The #Sun contains 99.8% of all the mass in our solar system, and #Jupiter accounts for most of the rest. All the planets, moons, comets and asteroids together are just a rounding error! 📸 NASA/SDO #Astronomy #Space
The Sun in extreme ultraviolet (SDO/AIA, 2010)
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Stargazing with Waddensky @waddensky.com · 29/09/2026
Image: NASA, Holland Ford (JHU), the ACS Science Team and ESA, CC BY 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/...). Source: esahubble.org/images/heic0...
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Stargazing with Waddensky @waddensky.com · 29/09/2026
This pillar of gas and dust is the #ConeNebula. Radiation from hot young stars above it has been eroding the pillar for millions of years. The whole pillar is 7 light-years long. 📸 NASA/H. Ford/ESA #Astrophotography #Astronomy
Hubble image of the Cone Nebula: a dark pillar of gas and dust with a rounded head and glowing edges, against a background of reddish glowing gas.
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