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The Lonely Neutron Star In Supernova Remnant E0102-72.3 (the blue dot at bottom left) blue represents X-Ray light captured by NASA'S Chandra observatory, while the red & green represent optical light captured by ESO'S telescope in Chile and NASA'S Hubble in orbit. (Text adapted from apod.nasa.gov)

Credit : X-Ray — Chandra Observatory & Optical light — ESO / HUBBLE

Simeis 147: Supernova Remnant 

The supernova remnant has an estimated age of about 40,000 years, meaning light from the massive stellar explosion first reached Earth 40,000 years ago. But the expanding remnant is not the only aftermath. The cosmic catastrophe also left behind a spinning neutron star or pulsar, all that remains of the original star's core.

Image Credit & Copyright: David Lindemann

Annular or the Ring Of Fire solar eclipse is tomorrow

The time of maximum eclipse, when that "ring of fire" event happens, will be at 2:40 a.m. EDT (0640 GMT) Sunday, June 21, when the moon crosses into the center of the sphere of the sun, from Earth's perspective. The eclipse starts at 11:45 p.m. EDT Saturday, June 20 (0345 GMT Sunday) and ends at 5:34 a.m. EDT (1034 GMT) June 20, according to NASA.

Regions in the path of visibility include the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Central African Republic, South Sudan, Sudan, Ethiopia, the Red Sea, Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Oman, the Gulf of Oman, Pakistan, India, China, Taiwan, the Philippine Sea (south of Guam), northern Australia and the north Pacific Ocean.

Picture description : An annular solar eclipse as seen by Japan's Hinode spacecraft on May, 20, 2012.

The arrangement of the spiral arms in the galaxy Messier 63, seen here in an image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, recall the pattern at the center of a sunflower.

 Credit: ESA/Hubble&NASA

Titan as seen through three different filters, captured on May 15th, 2013 via Imaging Science Subsystem (ISS) from 1.55 million miles (2.49 million kms) away.

Image Credit : NASA / JPL / SSI

Galaxy NGC 2768 as seen by Hubble on my birthday.

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I am speechless.

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

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Full Moon in full Colour - April the 6th of 2020

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Galaxy Wars: M81 and M82 

These two galaxies are far far away, 12 million light-years distant toward the northern constellation of the Great Bear. On the left, with grand spiral arms and bright yellow core is spiral galaxy M81, some 100,000 light-years across. On the right marked by red gas and dust clouds, is irregular galaxy M82. The pair have been locked in gravitational combat for a billion years. Their last go-round lasted about 100 million years and likely raised density waves rippling around M81, resulting in the richness of M81's spiral arms. M82 was left with violent star forming regions and colliding gas clouds so energetic the galaxy glows in X-rays. In the next few billion years, their continuing gravitational encounters will result in a merger, and a single galaxy will remain.

Image Credit & Copyright: Dietmar Hager, Torsten Grossmann