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Perfectly timed for Halloween, NASA is showing off a remarkable image of a ‘ghost nebula’ captured by the Hubble Space Telescope.

The incredible "Ghost of Cassiopeia" image was captured by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. (NASA, ESA and STScI; Acknowledgment: H. Arab [University of Strasbourg])

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Perseid Meteor Shower 2021 by Jeff Sullivan (https://ift.tt/1cpZOga) On the second best night of the 2021 Perseid meteor shower, one night before peak, we had some luck in this location in Nevada, despite some wildfire smoke.

I’ll have some time-lapse footage available shortly. https://flic.kr/p/2mhjQJg

Utopia on Mars Image Credit: NASA, The Viking Project, M. Dale-Bannister (Washington University)

Explanation: Expansive Utopia Planitia on Mars is strewn with rocks and boulders in this 1976 image. Constructed from the Viking 2 lander's color and black and white image data, the scene approximates the appearance of the high northern martian plain to the human eye - NASA

'134340' - Bts but you're lost in Space

luna : unfiltered

Egg NebulaPhoto by geckzilla via flickr(cc)

Jets from Unusual Galaxy Centaurus A Image Credit: ESO/WFI (visible); MPIfR/ESO/APEX/A. Weiss et al. (microwave); NASA/CXC/CfA/R. Kraft et al. (X-ray)

The "ice giants" Uranus and Neptune appear to glow red-orange in new photos taken using Hawaii's Keck Observatory. The pictures show Uranus' rings and several moons, as well as Neptune's largest moon, Triton.

 credits : livescience.com

Moon over Andromeda

Composite Image Credit & Copyright: Adam Block and Tim Puckett

Happy Solstice 2020!

The evening began with a beautiful sunset:

...though pretty clouds meant Jupiter and Saturn's closest dance was a little fuzzy:

They'd traded places and moved much closer than on Saturday:

This longer Saturday exposure shows Saturn's biggest moon, Titan (arrow), and all four of Jupiter's Galilean moons:

...and here's Jupiter's moons plus Titan (arrow; another arrow points out Amalthea hugging its parent world) tonight:

Happy Great Conjunction Day!

Arecibo Observatory Collapse

Have you guys watched the new Alien Worlds docuseries on Netflix?

Saturn and Dione , 2005

credits : NASA

Through hardships, to the stars 🌌

My proudest shot.

By: @emspectrumimaging

Me and my favorite humans embarked on an adventure to moab to camp for 4 days. I came out here with an idea of what I wanted to do, see, and accomplish. I had no idea how blown away I would be, and how much I needed this. We spent the day hiking and swimming in the most beautiful watering hole I've ever seen, checked out the colorado river, and saw the most vivid sunset in the middle of a giant Arch. All smiles, awestruck by the beauty of it all. Once nightfall rolled around, we packed up a bunch of gear and went back to the arches for some astrophotography under the Arches, a bucket list I've had for sooo long. The experience was so surreal, we had the entire park to ourselves and stayed till 4AM because it was just SO FUCKIN FUN AND BEAUTIFUL. Incredibly grateful to have the greatest people in my life who are always down to pack up and venture out into the unknown. Y'all support my crazy visions and I'll love you forever for that.

guys check it out, im trying out youtube for the first time as a creator, please show me some love <3

What would you take to the Moon with you?

Earthrise, Bill Anders, 1968.

True colour (left) and false colour views of Uranus from Voyager 2 taken on 17th of January, 1986 from a distance of 5.7 million miles.

Credits : NASA

Saturn Behind the Moon

Image Credit: Peter Patonai (Astroscape Photography)

While appearing as a delicate and light veil draped across the sky, this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope actually depicts a small section of the Cygnus supernova blast wave, located around 2,400 light-years away. The name of the supernova remnant comes from its position in the northern constellation of Cygnus (the Swan), where it covers an area 36 times larger than the full Moon. 

Image Credit: NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope

Question of the day : How far is the Moon from planet Earth?

Mars as seen from Hubble, snapped on April 27th through May 6th, 1999.

Image Credit : NASA COMMONS

Earth and Moon from Saturn, a true color composite taken on July the 19th, 2013 from Cassini spacecraft at a distance of 898, 419, 474 miles or 1,445,865,990 kilometers away from Earth.

Credits : NASA/JPL/SSI/Composite by Val Klavans via Flickr

Happy eighth anniversary, rover Curiosity !

Picture Description: NASA's Curiosity rover took this selfie on Oct. 11, 2019, the 2,553rd Martian day, or sol, of its mission.

The rover drilled twice in this location, nicknamed "Glen Etive" (pronounced "glen EH-tiv"). About 984 feet (300 meters) behind the rover, Vera Rubin Ridge rises up. Behind it lies the floor of Gale Crater, which Curiosity is exploring, and the northern rim of the crater. (Text adapted from nasa.gov)

Credits: NASA

Saturn like Exo Planet discovered in the habitable zone of another star system by a bunch of relatively amateur astronomers — under the umbrella called Habitable Exoplanet Hunting Project. (HEHP)

Watch the video here : https://youtu.be/0A7gEaewOws

The Pillars of Creation at the centre of M16 or the Eagle Nebula

Credits: NASA, ESA and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)

GLOBAL VIEW OF VENUS IN ULTRAVIOLET FROM AKATSUKI

A false-color image using two ultraviolet channels from Akatsuki's UVI camera at 283 nm and 365 nm distinguishes different components of the Venusian atmosphere.

VENUS' NIGHTSIDE GLOW

This image shows the night side of Venus in thermal infrared. It is a false-colour image using data from Akatsuki.

VENUS' SOUTH POLE IN ULTRAVIOLET FROM AKATSUKI, JUNE 20, 2016

A false-color image using two ultraviolet channels from Akatsuki's UVI camera, showing details along a colourful band encircling Venus' south polar vortex in morning daylight.

Images Credit : JAXA / ISAS / DARTS / Damia Bouic

VENUS' COUPLED DYNAMICS AND SULFUR CHEMISTRY FROM AKATSUKI, JULY 23, 2016

A false-color image using two ultraviolet channels from Akatsuki's UVI camera. Venus' cloud dynamics are just as complex as Earth's.

Note : Akatsuki is a Japanese mission launched in 2010 to orbit Venus (which it failed the first time) but successfully entered Venus' orbit on December the 7th, 2015.

EQUATORIAL REGION OF VENUS FROM AKATSUKI

Images acquired during orbit number 13 of the Japanese probe Akatsuki show an incredible amount of detail on the equatorial, tropical, and extra-tropical clouds of the planet

VENUS IN INFRARED FROM AKATSUKI: CLOUD WAVE

This view of Venus was acquired by the Japanese Akatsuki spacecraft's IR2 camera, which observes—among other things—the "warmth" of the planet's atmosphere on its nocturnal side.

Variable star RS Puppis, about ten times more massive than our Sun and fifteen times more luminous.

Image Data : NASA/ESA/HUBBLE

Copyright & Mixing : Rogellio Bernal Andreo

I am speechless.

Comet Neowise over Lebanon, captured on 7th July, 2020 by Maroun Habib. Comet Neowise became one of the few naked-eye objects of the 21st century.