The South Cheshire Astronomy Society will be participating in the Crewe Science Spectacular this Saturday in Crewe, Cheshire at Lyceum Square from 11 till 3. We will present 3 talks including a talk on telescopes from @engineeratomic.bsky.social. more info on our website: scastro.org

The South Cheshire Astronomy Society will be participating in the Crewe Science Spectacular this Saturday in Crewe, Cheshire at Lyceum Square from 11 till 3. We will present 3 talks including a talk on telescopes from @engineeratomic.bsky.social. more info on our website: scastro.org

Our first observation/club night of the new season is tonight! Join us at St Peter's Community Hall in Minshull Vernon, Cheshire. More info on our website. southcheshireastronomy.wordpress.com

In March 2025, Earth was hit by a fast radio burst as energetic as the sun but lasting only milliseconds.

Hours before its death, a massive star violently reshuffled its insides then exploded into Cassiopeia A. NASA’s Chandra data reveals this last-minute chaos, offering new clues into how stars live, die & transform the cosmos Credit: NASA/CXC/Meiji Univ./T. Sato et al.

Our 2025-6 season starts next week! Our first observation evening is this Monday night, 7.30pm, at the St Peter's Community Hall, Minshull Vernon. More details on our website:https://southcheshireastronomy.wordpress.com/

Day 5 of my Global Meteor Detection System. Just one camera at the moment but some nice Perseids captured last night despite the cloud cover and moonlight. #meteor #perseids @southcheshireastro.bsky.social

Fab #r4today @megschwamb.bsky.social on how Rubin Observatory commissioning just happened to be looking in the right place at the right time🧵👇 The ~7-mile-wide interstellar #3I/ATLAS comet roams through our galaxy, currently speeding through our solar system to pass Mars in early Oct!🔭🧪 📷: SkyLive

🧵 This nice Hubble image shows the intriguing nebula RCW 7 dotted with stars. Also known as Sh 2-302 and Gum 6, it is located some 5,300 ly away in Puppis. RCW 7 is an H II region, containing a massive binary protostar, IRAS 07299-1651, which is estimated to have a minimum total mass of... 🔭 🧪

Tangle of craters along the southern part of the first quarter Moon last night at 144x. Herschel is the small shadowed crater near the upper center. Below it is Ptolemaeus. Right of Ptolemaeus is Albategnius. Below Ptolemaeus is Alphonsus, and below that is Arzachel. #astronomy #astrophotography

The largest photomosaic of the Andromeda galaxy, assembled from Hubble observations, took more than 10 years of data collecting and was created from more than 600 snapshots! ➡️ And it's available for download in really large sizes: go.nasa.gov/44Uvyhc 🔭 🧪

From Abbé Whitford: In today’s astrobite we explore a new approach that has been developed to measure the Universal expansion rate, involving gravitational waves from merging black holes and the large-scale structure of the Universe.🔭✨☄️ astrobites.org/2025/07/17/l...

This is the East Veil Nebula. It is located 2400 light years from earth. I always think it looks like a creepy face to me! #astronomy #astrophotography #space @kat-astro-bot.bsky.social

Saturday afternoon quick images of the huge activity on the Sun... Astro Joe

A Stereo3D view captured yesterday by the Curiosity rover To go 3D: eyes' lines of sight parallel, left image for left eye, right image for right eye. #Mars June 27, 2025 - Sol 4582 🧪🔭 📷: NASA/JPL-Caltech

Astronomers may have found evidence of still-forming planets hidden in this close-up of the star RIK 113, taken with our VLT 📸 🪐 This and previous ALMA data suggest that the disc around the star may be shaped by hidden planets. Discover more: www.eso.org/public/image... 🔭 🧪 📷 ESO/C. Ginski et al.

This is RCW126, a Hydrogen Alpha nebula region 6,500 light years away in the constellation of Scorpius. Captured over multiple nights in May and June 2025 using my Edge HD8 telescope and ASI1600MM Pro camera. 25 hours of total imaging time #astrophotography @kat-astro-bot.bsky.social

📷 This was our #WeekInImages, 2-6 June 2025 👇 www.esa.int/About_Us/Wee... 🧪🔭

The Cygnus Wall is a giant cloud of hydrogen gas that is ionized by nearby stars, so it glows. From end to end, it's about 20 LY long. It's 1,500 LY away, so this is really what it looked like 1,500 years ago. HOO color palette. #astronomy #astrophotography #astro #science #cygnus #space #nebula

Hello to our fellow Astronomy organisations, professionals and enthusiasts, South Cheshire Astronomy has now moved to Bluesky, excited to make this our new digital home. Visit our website to read more about our society and our upcoming 2025-26 season dates. scastro.org