The Horsehead Nebula (also known as Barnard 33) is a small dark nebula in the constellation Orion. The nebula is located just to the south of Alnitak, the easternmost star of Orion’s Belt, and is part of the much larger Orion Molecular Cloud Complex. Credit: NASA/ESA & Hubble

Tonight in Star Gazing in the Park Photo credit JWEBB Milky Way, interstellar medium Swirling ribands of dust form ribands due to gravitational, electric and tidal forces which inhabit the spaces between stars. Typically invisible this image was brought to you by the light of Zeta Ophiuchi

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

Billions of years from now, only one galaxy will remain as spiral galaxies NGC 2207 (right) and IC 2163 (left) slowly merge. This composite of Hubble and Webb images shows their recent encounter, triggering star formation and tidal streams. Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI

First JWST image of 2025. Wolf-Rayet star WR 140. 🔭 🧪

Beautiful Mt. Fuji 🗻 🇯🇵 Japan

Photo I just took of Mars setting behind the Moon

This infrared image from NASA Spitzer Space Telescope shows the Helix nebula, a cosmic starlet often photographed by amateur astronomers for its vivid colors and eerie resemblance to a giant eye. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ.of Ariz.

The Milky Way above the Ring of Brodgar, on Orkney. In an otherwise clear sky, it was "disappointing" to have that band of cloud that just didn't want to disperse. The bright light on the clouds is from the town of Stromness, where we had docked a few hours earlier. #Photography

Sums it up nicely

#pixelart #art #space

The Milky Way above the Ring of Brodgar, on Orkney. In an otherwise clear sky, it was "disappointing" to have that band of cloud that just didn't want to disperse. The bright light on the clouds is from the town of Stromness, where we had docked a few hours earlier. #Photography

Pismis 24, an open star cluster around 8,000 light-years away in the core of the NGC 6357 nebula in the constellation Scorpius. Image Credit: NASA, ESA, and J. Maíz Apellániz, et al

JWST peers deep into space, taking a snapshot of over 20,000 galaxies, some whose light comes to us from over 12 billion light-years away. This image was presented today on AAS Nova.

The Milky Way in the skies of Western Australia photographed by Trevor Dobson🌌

The Milky Way in the skies of Western Australia photographed by Trevor Dobson🌌

Three years ago, at the urging of my dying mother, I purchased my very first camera and commenced my photography journey. After countless videos and articles on how to everything Canon R5 it has been worth it. A few of my favorite landscapes from year 3 #photography #canonusa #landscapephotography

A story in three parts, in just seven days.

A Whirlpool Galaxy |NASA|

Tonight in stargazing OH 231.8+04.2- The Rotten Egg Nebula Constellation Puppis Distance 5,000 light years Discovered by William Herschel 1786 Length 1.4 light years Named after its high sulfur content it's a star of similar size as our sun but in its early stages of planetary nebula formation

Tonight in stargazing OH 231.8+04.2- The Rotten Egg Nebula Constellation Puppis Distance 5,000 light years Discovered by William Herschel 1786 Length 1.4 light years Named after its high sulfur content it's a star of similar size as our sun but in its early stages of planetary nebula formation

Pillars of Creation.🔭 Credit: NASA, ESA/Hubble and the Hubble Heritage Team

NGC 6995: The Bat Nebula.🔭 Credit and Copyright: Josep M. Drudis

Sunset tonight

The Butterfly Nebula from Hubble.🔭 Image Copyright: Image Credit: NASA, ESA, Hubble; Processing: William Ostling Hubble Space Telescope

Mount Hood, Oregon 🌫️

Hubble Ultra Deep Field (HUDF) by JWST. This is what the universe looked like a few hundred million years after the Big Bang. 🔭 🧪

A Lake Michigan Sunset. #AlphabetChallenge #WeekAforAngles #Photography #Sunset

here is the picture of the Bubble Nebula from the Hubble Space Telescope.🔭

One of the Universe’s prettiest mysteries — Hoag’s Object, a ring galaxy around 600 million light-years away in the constellation Serpens. Image Credit: NASA/ESA, Processing: Benoit Blanco

Messier 57 (aka M57 or the Ring Nebula) is a planetary nebula around 2,000 light-years away in the constellation Lyra. Image Credit: ESA/Webb, NASA, et al

In Space tonight: Like delicate cosmic petals, these clouds of interstellar dust and gas have blossomed 1,300 light-years away in the fertile star fields of the constellation Cepheus. Sometimes called the Iris Nebula and cataloged as NGC 7023, this is not the only nebula in the sky to evoke 🌺

This guy is up for adoption at my local animal shelter, in case anyone is looking for a guy like this.

First clear night in forever, and little Moon, so I pointed the Origin 🔭 for three hours on this beautiful lesser-known star-forming region NGC 7822. Note the cluster of stars on the right, whose radiation and winds are sculpting the gas cloud into fantastic shapes and making it glow.

7,500 light years away from us...

Here’s something to think about as you kick off 2025: ✨We are all stardust.✨ Every atom of oxygen in our lungs, of carbon in our muscles, of calcium in our bones, of iron in our blood—was created inside a star before Earth was born. Image: NASA Hubble Space Telescope, CC BY 2.0, flickr

This article is 109 years old. And we still aren't doing enough to act on climate change.

Charles Bukowski said it best: doubt is the burden of the thoughtful. Confidence, unfortunately, often belongs to the clueless.

The birth of a star captured by JWST 💫✨💫😲💫✨💫

Full MIRI image of NGC 604. This region is a hotbed of star formation and home to more than 200 of the hottest, most massive kinds of stars, all in the early stages of their lives. 🔭 🧪

Here is a nice mushroom

Starry night over Banff

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Bertrand Russell wrote this over 100 years ago, in 1923. Hasn't aged a day.

The Red Emission nebula NGC-2014 and it's smaller blue neighbor NGC-2020 The Cosmic Reef Image credit Hubble Constellation Dorado Distance 163,000 light years Discovered 1826 James Dunlop The blue in NGC 2014 is the glow of oxygen, heated to 20,000°F by blasts of ultraviolet light.

Ringing in the eve of the New Year with NGC 6946 (aka the Fireworks Galaxy), an intermediate spiral galaxy around 25 million light-years away, bordering the constellations Cepheus and Cygnus. Image Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/MSSL/R.Soria et al, Optical: AURA/Gemini OBs