The Orion Nebula (M42), M43 And The Running Man Nebula.

A “Mão do Deserto”, escultura no Atacama, Chile. Na foto, tentando alcançar a Via Láctea. . “The Hand of the Desert”, a sculpture at Atacama, Chile. In this picture, it tries to reach the Milky Way. . Credit: Kiko Fairbairn @kikofairbairn . #hand #desert #mao #deserto #atacama #atacamadesert #chile #astrophoto #astropicture #astrophotography #astrogram #astrofoto #astrofotografia #galaxy #milkyway #astronomia #astronomy #pictureoftheday #instagood https://www.instagram.com/p/B8zO-E4pKqH/?igshid=m2k5zrtozk40

2025 January 27

Pleiades over Half Dome Image Credit & Copyright: Dheera Venkatraman

Explanation: Stars come in bunches. The most famous bunch of stars on the sky is the Pleiades, a bright cluster that can be easily seen with the unaided eye. The Pleiades lies only about 450 light years away, formed about 100 million years ago, and will likely last about another 250 million years. Our Sun was likely born in a star cluster, but now, being about 4.5 billion years old, its stellar birth companions have long since dispersed. The Pleiades star cluster is pictured over Half Dome, a famous rock structure in Yosemite National Park in California, USA. The featured image is a composite of 28 foreground exposures and 174 images of the stellar background, all taken from the same location and by the same camera on the same night in October 2019. After calculating the timing of a future juxtaposition of the Pleiades and Half Dome, the astrophotographer was unexpectedly rewarded by an electrical blackout, making the background sky unusually dark.

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Canaries Sky

Credits: A. Vannini, G. Li Causi, A. Ricciardi, A. Garatti

From Auriga to Orion

Mongolia by Patrick J. Burkhart

NGC7293 Helix/ God’s Eye Nebula

M104, Sombrero Galaxy

During partial moon eclipse, on July 16th.

Milky Way over Canadian Forest, August 2019.

whale breaks off

by Slater Moore