Jupiter looking at Earth
A Picasso-like face appears to emerge from the turbulent atmosphere in a phenomenon called #pareidolia, in which viewers spy faces and other recognizable objects within random patterns.
https://edition.cnn.com/2023/10/31/world/nasa-jupiter-face-ghostly-hand-nebula-scn/index.html
Herschel Views the Milky Way
Credits: ESA, SPIRE & PACS Consortia
#nature #space #astrophotography
South Celestial Rocket Launch
Credits: Brendan Gully
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Galileo's Europa
Credits: Galileo Project, Univ. Arizona, #JPL, #NASA
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Il y a du monde sur cette photo!
Du haut et de gauche à droite :
NGC 4402, M 86, M 84, NGC 4387, NGC 4435, NGC 4438, NGC 4488, NGC 4425, NGC 4413, NGC 4431, NGC 4440.
#astrophotography
#SeestarS50
I'm sure you've all asked yourselves the question that used to keep me up at nights - "If the moon were transparent, what would an eclipse look like?" - right?
You never asked yourself that question? Why not?
Well, never mind, here is your answer. I commissioned the local mad scientist to create a moon transparenciser and a gravity gun to change the orbit to get a solar eclipse just where we wanted it.
We put it back afterwards, I'm sure no-one noticed. And the transparenciser wore off after a few minutes. But it was enough for me to get this photo.
#astrophotography #Astrodon #astronomy #MadScience
(Or maybe it is just a #DoubleExposure )
The Perseus Cluster's X-Ray Skull
Credits: IoA Cambridge, #NASA
#nature #space #astrophotography
IC 418: The Spirograph Nebula
* Image Credit: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA); Acknowledgement: R. Sahai (JPL) et al.
https://science.jpl.nasa.gov/people/Sahai/
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/
https://www.aura-astronomy.org/
https://www.stsci.edu/
https://www.nasa.gov/stem-content/the-hubble-heritage-project/
https://esahubble.org/
https://www.nasa.gov/
Explanation:
What is creating the strange texture of IC 418? Dubbed the Spirograph Nebula for its resemblance to drawings from a cyclical drawing tool, planetary nebula IC 418 shows patterns that are not well understood. Perhaps they are related to chaotic winds from the variable central star, which changes brightness unpredictably in just a few hours. By contrast, evidence indicates that only a few million years ago, IC 418 was probably a well-understood star similar to our Sun. Only a few thousand years ago, IC 418 was probably a common red giant star. Since running out of nuclear fuel, though, the outer envelope has begun expanding outward leaving a hot remnant core destined to become a white-dwarf star, visible in the image center. The light from the central core excites surrounding atoms in the nebula causing them to glow. IC 418 lies about 2000 light-years away and spans 0.3 light-years across. This false-color image taken from the Hubble Space Telescope reveals the unusual details.
https://science.nasa.gov/asset/hubble/the-spirograph-nebula-ic-418/
https://observing.skyhound.com/archives/jan/IC_418.html
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1997A%26A...320..125H/abstract
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IC_418
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2009A%26A...507.1517M/abstract
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planetary_nebula
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/planetary_nebulae.html
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap100221.html
https://www.historyoftheuniverse.com/?p=redgiant.htm#gsc.tab=0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7E-0j90Cwpk
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap000910.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stellar_wind
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spirograph
https://www.wordsmith.org/~anu/java/spirograph.html
https://science.nasa.gov/missions/hubble/hubbles-spirograph/
https://www.stsci.edu/hst
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aso/tryit/atom/
https://spaceplace.nasa.gov/light-year/en/
https://spaceplace.nasa.gov/galaxy
https://spaceplace.nasa.gov/nebula
https://spiralator.com/
A Year on the Sun
Credits: #NASA, Solar Dynamics Observatory
#nature #space #astrophotography
Jupiter's Dry Spots
Credits: Galileo Project, #JPL, #NASA
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Arp 299: Black Holes in Colliding Galaxies
Credits: #NASA, JPL-Caltech, GSFC, Hubble, NuSTAR
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#UMPlus - NGC 6106 by Jerry Yesavage
https://www.universomagico.net/2025/04/ngc-6106-por-jerry-yesavage.html
This image by astronomer Jerome Yesavage shows the spiral galaxy NGC 6106, visible in the direction of the constellation of Hercules, located at a distance of about 67 million light-years from the Milky Way. NGC 6106 is notable for having hosted two recent supernovae, in 2020 and 2024, called AT 2020kog and.....
#astronomy #space #astrophysics #astrophotography
#UMPlus - NGC 6106 by Jerry Yesavage
https://www.universomagico.net/2025/04/ngc-6106-por-jerry-yesavage.html
This image by astronomer Jerome Yesavage shows the spiral galaxy NGC 6106, visible in the direction of the constellation of Hercules, located at a distance of about 67 million light-years from the Milky Way. NGC 6106 is notable for having hosted two recent supernovae, in 2020 and 2024, called AT 2020kog and.....
#astronomy #space #astrophysics #astrophotography
Pretty good results for M27 and M51 last night with EQ mode on the #seestars50 #astrophotography #astrodon
M27: Not a Comet
Credits: Martin Pugh
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