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!
Andromeda in all her show stopping glory, a stunning capture by Rogelio Bernal Andreo.
WISE helps map the beautiful spiral arms of our galaxy Milky Way.
WISE mission – NASA
Credit : NASA/Twitter
The Pillars of Creation at the centre of M16 or the Eagle Nebula
Credits: NASA, ESA and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)
Earth, as seen from the Lunar surface, visualised
Have you guys watched the new Alien Worlds docuseries on Netflix?
What would you take to the Moon with you?
Barred Spiral Galaxy NGC 1300
Image Credit: Hubble Heritage Team,ESA, NASA
Galaxy M33//NGC 598 grabbed by Hubble
Credits: NASA/Hubble
South Of Carina Nebula
With natal dust clouds in silhouette against glowing atomic gas, this colorful and chaotic vista lies within one of the largest star forming regions in the Milky Way galaxy, the Great Carina Nebula. The telescopic close-up frames a field of view about 80 light-years across, a little south and east of Eta Carinae, the nebula's most energetic and enigmatic star. Captured under suburban skies improved during national restrictions, a composite of narrowband image data was used to create the final image. In it, characteristic emission from the nebula's ionized sulfur, hydrogen, and oxygen atoms is mapped to red, green and blue hues, a color palette also popular in Hubble Space Telescope. The celestial landscape of bright ridges of emission bordered by cool, obscuring dust lies about 7,500 light-years away toward the southern constellation Carina.
Image Credit & Copyright: Ignacio Diaz Bobillo
Source : Apod.nasa.gov