The Iris Nebula ✨️💫✨️

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Aurora Australis and the International Space Station 🚉 ✨️

This snapshot from the International Space Station was taken on August 11 while orbiting about 430 kilometers above the Indian Ocean, Southern Hemisphere, planet Earth. The spectacular view looks south and east, down toward the planet's horizon and through red and green curtains of aurora... (edited) read more

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The Trifid Nebula ✨️

Messier 20, popularly known as the Trifid Nebula, lies about 5,000 light-years away toward the nebula rich constellation Sagittarius. A star forming region in the plane of our galaxy, the Trifid does illustrate three different types of astronomical nebulae; red emission nebulae dominated by light... read more

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The Bat Nebula ✨️🦇

Can you see the bat? It haunts this cosmic close-up of the eastern Veil Nebula. The Veil Nebula itself is a large supernova remnant, the expanding debris cloud from the death explosion of a massive star. While the Veil is roughly circular in shape and covers nearly 3 degrees on the sky toward the... read more

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20d

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Supermoon Beyond the Temple of Poseidon 🌕

A supermoon occurred on August 19th. Supermoons appear slightly larger and brighter than most full moons because they reach their full phase when slightly nearer to the Earth, closer than 90 percent of all full moons. This supermoon was also a blue moon given the definition that it is the third of... read more

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The Andromeda Galaxy 💫✨️

The most distant object easily visible to the unaided eye is M31, the great Andromeda Galaxy. Even at some two and a half million light-years distant, this immense spiral galaxy, spanning over 200,000 light years, is visible, although as a faint, nebulous cloud in the constellation Andromeda. A... read more

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Sirius Star Twinkling 🌟

#universe #stars #sky #nature #cosmos I captured this video of the Sirius Star twinkling bright in the early morning sky during my night walk. You can see it flashing in the middle of the video clip. The Sirius Star is located approximately 8 light-years from Earth. It was shining brighter than... read more

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1mo

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Perseid Meteors & Milky Way over Stonehenge 💫✨️

What's happening in the sky above Stonehenge? A meteor shower: specifically, the Perseid meteor shower. A few nights ago, after the sky darkened, many images of meteors from this year's Perseids were captured separately and merged into a single frame. Although the meteors all traveled on straight... read more

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The Cocoon Nebula ✨️

Inside the Cocoon Nebula is a newly developing cluster of stars. Cataloged as IC 5146, the beautiful nebula is nearly 15 light-years wide. Soaring high in northern summer night skies, it's located some 4,000 light years away toward the constellation of the Swan (Cygnus). Like other star forming... read more

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1mo

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Aurora Meteor 💫

A single exposure made with a camera pointed almost due north on August 12 recorded this bright Perseid meteor in the night sky west of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. The meteor's incandescent trace is fleeting. It appears to cross the stars of the Big Dipper, famous northern asterism and celestial... read more

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The Dark Tower in Scorpius ✨️

In silhouette against a crowded star field along the tail of the arachnological constellation Scorpius, this dusty cosmic cloud evokes for some of the image of an ominous dark tower. In fact, monstrous clumps of dust and molecular gas collapsing to form stars may well lurk within the dark nebula, a... read more

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1mo

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Super Blue Moon Soon 💙🌕

In just a few days on August, 19th there will be a particularly special full moon, known as a blue moon. However, this blue moon is not the result of being the second full moon in a calendar month, but rather a seasonal blue moon. A seasonal blue moon occurs when there are four full moons in a... read more

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1mo

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Milky Way Galaxy over Tunisia ✨️

#universe #sky #outdoors #photography #stars That's no moon. On the ground, that's the Lars Homestead in Tunisia. And that's not just any galaxy. That's the central band of our own Milky Way galaxy. Last, that's not just any meteor. It is a bright fireball likely from last year's Perseids meteor... read more

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First-of-Its-Kind Detection Made in Striking New Webb Image ✨️

#universe #photography #space #science #stars Webb has captured a stellar phenomenon for the first time. See how those bright red, clumpy streaks in the top left are all slanted in the same direction to the same degree? They show aligned protostellar outflows, or jets of gas from newborn... read more

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Interacting Galaxies

#universe #space #photography #science To some, it looks like a penguin. But to people who study the universe, it is an interesting example of two big galaxies interacting. Just a few hundred million years ago, the upper NGC 2936 was likely a normal spiral galaxy: spinning, creating stars, and... read more

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Fireworks Galaxy ✨️💫✨️

#universe #stars #photography #space #science From our vantage point in the Milky Way Galaxy, we see NGC 6946 face-on. The big, beautiful spiral galaxy is located just 20 million light-years away, behind a veil of foreground dust and stars in the high and far-off constellation Cepheus. In this... read more

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King of Wings Hoodoo under the Milky Way 🌌 💫✨️

#outdoors #sky #stars #nature #cosmos #science This rock structure is not only surreal, it's real. Perhaps the reason it's not more famous is that it is smaller than one might guess: the capstone rock overhangs only a few meters. Even so, the King of Wings outcrop, located in New Mexico, USA, is... read more

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Meteor Misses Galaxy 💫✨️

#universe #space #science #stars #photography The galaxy was never in danger. For one thing, the Triangulum galaxy (M33), pictured, is much bigger than the tiny grain of rock at the head of the meteor. For another, the galaxy is much farther away, in this instance 3 million light years as opposed... read more

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Tadpole Galaxy 💫✨️

#universe #space #photography #science #stars Why does this galaxy have such a long tail? In this stunning vista, based on image data from the Hubble Legacy Archive, distant galaxies form a dramatic backdrop for disrupted spiral galaxy Arp 188, the Tadpole Galaxy. The cosmic tadpole is a mere 420... read more

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The Crab Nebula

#cosmos #space #science #photography #history The Crab Nebula is a cloud of material that resembles roaring fire, in shades of mostly red and orange. In the center of the nebula is a structure that resembles the shape of a spinning toy top, made of blue and white wispy clouds, resting on its... read more

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Oyster Star Cluster ✨️💫✨️

#space #cosmos #photography #science #stars The clouds may look like an oyster, and the stars like pearls, but look beyond. Near the outskirts of the Small Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy some 200 thousand light-years distant, lies this 5 million year old star cluster NGC 602. Surrounded by... read more

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A Beautiful Trifid ✨️💫✨️

#cosmos #space #science #photography #sagittarius The beautiful Trifid Nebula is a cosmic study in contrasts. Also known as M20, it lies about 5,000 light-years away toward the nebula rich constellation Sagittarius. A star forming region in the plane of our galaxy, the Trifid does illustrate... read more

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The Giant Squid Nebula

#space #cosmos #science #photography Squids on Earth aren't this big. This mysterious squid-like cosmic cloud spans nearly three full moons on planet Earth's sky. Discovered in 2011 by French astro-imager Nicolas Outters, the Squid Nebula's bipolar shape is distinguished here by the telltale blue... read more

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Serpens Nebula ✨️

#stars #space #science #photography #cosmos Jets of material blasting from newborn stars, are captured in this James Webb Space Telescope close-up of the Serpens Nebula. The powerful protostellar outflows are bipolar, twin jets spewing in opposite directions. Their directions are perpendicular to... read more

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Spiral Galaxy Messier 66

#space #cosmos #science #photography #learning Big, beautiful spiral galaxy Messier 66 lies a mere 35 million light-years away. The gorgeous island universe is about 100 thousand light-years across, similar in size to the Milky Way. This Hubble Space Telescope close-up view spans a region about... read more

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Dragons of Ara 🐲✨️

#cosmos #space #science #photography #dragons Do dragons fight on the altar of the sky? Although it might appear that way, these dragons are illusions made of thin gas and dust. The emission nebula NGC 6188, home to the glowing clouds, is found about 4,000 light years away near the edge of a... read more

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The Dark Doodad Nebula

#cosmos #space #science #funny #photography What is that strange brown ribbon on the sky? When observing the star cluster NGC 4372, observers frequently take note of an unusual dark streak nearby running about three degrees in length. The streak, actually a long molecular cloud, has become known... read more

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Colorful Stars & Clouds ✨️✨️

#stars #space #photography #science #cosmos Why is the sky near Antares and Rho Ophiuchi so colorful, yet dusty? The colors result from a mixture of objects and processes. Fine dust, illuminated by starlight, produces blue reflection nebulae. Gaseous clouds whose atoms are excited by ultraviolet... read more

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The Nebulous Realm of WR 134

#supernova #moon #space #cosmos #photography #science Made with narrowband filters, this cosmic snapshot covers a field of view over twice as wide as the full Moon within the boundaries of the constellation Cygnus. It highlights the bright edge of a ring-like nebula traced by the glow of ionized... read more

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Galaxy in Camelopardalis ✨️💫✨️

#space #science #photography #cosmos Magnificent galaxy NGC 2403 is like an island universe that stands within the boundaries of the long-necked constellation Camelopardalis. Some 10 million light-years distant and about 50,000 light-years across, the spiral galaxy also seems to have more than... read more

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M78 from the Euclid Space Telescope ✨️✨️✨️

#cosmos #photography #science #space Star formation can be messy. To help find out just how messy, ESA's new Sun-orbiting Euclid telescope recently captured the most detailed image ever of the bright star forming region M78. Near the image center, M78 lies at a distance of only about 1,300... read more

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Unraveling Spiral Galaxy

#space #cosmos #photography #science Spiral galaxy NGC 3169 looks to be unraveling like a ball of cosmic yarn. It lies some 70 million light-years away, south of bright star Regulus toward the faint constellation Sextans. Wound up spiral arms are pulled out into sweeping tidal tails as NGC 3169... read more

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Top of the Iconic Horsehead Nebula

#space #science #photography #cosmos ✨️✨️ The Horsehead Nebula is famously known for…looking like a horse’s head. But there is more to this cloud of dust and gas than meets the eye. Webb captured the top of the "horse's mane," giving us the sharpest infrared images of the region to date. The... read more

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Rings Around the Ring Nebula

#space #science #photography #cosmos The Ring Nebula (M57) is more complicated than it appears through a small telescope. The easily visible central ring is about one light-year across, but this remarkably deep exposure - a collaborative effort combining data from three different large telescopes... read more

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Dragon's Egg Bipolar Emission Nebula ✨️💫✨️

#space #mythology #science #photography #cosmos How did a star form this beautiful nebula? In the middle of emission nebula NGC 6164 is an unusually massive star. The central star has been compared to an oyster's pearl and an egg protected by the mythical sky dragons of Ara. The star, visible in... read more

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The Great Carina Nebula

#space #photography #science #cosmos A jewel of the southern sky, the Great Carina Nebula is more modestly known as NGC 3372. One of our Galaxy's largest star forming regions, it spans over 300 light-years. Like the smaller, more northerly Great Orion Nebula, the Carina Nebula is easily visible... read more