Thursday, January 31, 2019

🔥 The surf is glimmering blue with the light of bioluminescent plankton. The picture was taken on the Iranian coast of Gulf of Oman. Credit: Taha Ghouchkanlu. 🔥


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An abstract water color of the blood moon we recently had. [OC]


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Venus, numerous bright stars ( most are closer than 100 light-years away), Zodiacal light (the diagonal beam of light crossing behind Venus) and Our Milky Way galaxy over Gulf of Oman. Credit: Taha Ghouchkanlu.


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New Horizons Black and White Image of Jupiter


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Luminous night sky consists of bright familiar stars of Orion the hunter & aldebaran,eyes of Taurus the bull over Salar de Uyuni, planet Earth's largest salt flat. Credit: Stephanie Ziyi Ye.


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Hubble just discovers that 13 billion years old dwarf spheroidals galaxy Bedin 1 - nearly as old as the universe itself. Credit:NASA, ESA, L. Bedin.


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International Space Station Commander Alexander Gerst viewed SpaceX’s Dragon cargo craft chasing the orbital laboratory on Dec. 8, 2018. [2048x1365]


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Earth atmosphere and the Moon - Pic by NASA/ESA [579x767]


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NGC 3344 - a relatively isolated barred spiral galaxy located 22.5 million light years away in the constellation Leo Minor [3158 x 3202]


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Liftoff of the behemoth Delta IV Heavy rocket, sending the Parker Solar Probe on its journey to "touch the sun" [2048 × 1638] [OC]


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The moon, Venus, Jupiter, Scorpius and Iridium 55 flaring!!


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I thought my new equipment did pretty well tonight (Orion Nebula)


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Wednesday, January 30, 2019

Ghost Nebula [4072x4133]


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Sharpless 308: Star Bubble Image Credit & Copyright: Laubing [2048x1642]


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Hubble captured the Kepler's supernova remnant that exploded in our Milky Way galaxy.


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Moonlit by @ThinkLumi


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This extraordinary view of Jupiter was captured by NASA’s Juno spacecraft on the outbound leg of its 12th close flyby of the gas giant planet. This new perspective of Jupiter from the south makes the Great Red Spot appear as though it is in northern territory. [1920 x 1080]


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What a difference 40 years makes. A color image of Charon from data gathered by the New Horizons spacecraft in 2015 shows a range of diverse surface features, significantly transforming our view of a moon discovered in 1978 as a “bump” on Pluto in a set of grainy telescope images. [4800 x 3600]


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Milky Way Galaxy and Zodiacal Light over North Jutland,Denmark. Zodiacal light is created by sunlight reflected from dust that was mostly expelled by comets that have passed near Jupiter, orbiting the Sun. Credit: Ruslan Merzlyakov


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Digital art ‘Planet Coi 2’ by Dylan Bray


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NASA's Cassini spacecraft made its final close approach to Saturn's moon Mimas on January 30, 2017. At closest approach, Cassini passed 25,620 miles (41,230 kilometers) from Mimas. This mosaic is one of the highest resolution views ever captured of the icy moon. [1700 x 1700]


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Our home supercluster Laniakea in a new, strikingly detailed image thanks to data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. Zoom in to have your mind blown (due to detail, it takes a minute to download)


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Northern lights from space. Now that’s some fucking space porn


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Hubble Sets Sights on a Galaxy with a Bright Heart [1143 x 1005]


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The spiral galaxy D100 with a 200k light-years long gas tail that is 400k times massive than our Sun & a star-forming region, moved through the hot gas in a coma cluster of galaxies. The red path is due to gravitationaly weak outer gases being stripped away by ram pressure. Credit:NASA,ESA,HUBBLE


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The Mars InSight Lander's exact location was found using HiRISE, a powerful camera on board the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, on November 26, 2018.


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The Milky Way rising high above the Catskills Mountains — this is a two shot blend with one tracked and one untracked shot to bring out more detail in our night sky.


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Tuesday, January 29, 2019

2018 Mars Apparition [2200 × 2573] - Damian Peach


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Cassini took a peek inside Saturn's rings. At the top is the A ring with its broader Encke and narrower Keeler gaps visible. At the bottom is F ring. The point of light between the rings is Earth & the pinprick of light to the left is Moon.


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Earth's and Jupiter's Moons [OC] [8750 x 6000]


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Supernova 1994D in the galaxy NGC 4526 [2608 x 2608]


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Thanksgiving skies over an abandoned barn in Eastern WA. [OC][2736x1824]


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An old medival castle under the Milky Way


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Bubble Nebula [7857x7462]


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Ultima Thule from New Horizon Spacecraft.


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A pair of interacting galaxies called Arp 273


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The moon, Venus, Jupiter, Scorpius and Iridium 55 Flare [OC]


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Monday, January 28, 2019

Old Moon in The New Moon's Arm. Credit: Yuri Beletsky


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Old Moon in The New Moon's Arm. Credit: Yuri Beletsky


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Milky Way over The King of Wings Hoodoo. The image credit goes to Wayne Pinkston.


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Milky Way over The King of Wings Hoodoo. The image credit goes to Wayne Pinkston.


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The Man, The Dog and The Sun. The image was taken from about a km away through a telephoto lens. The scattering of blue lights make the bottom portion of the Sun appear slightly more red. The image credit goes to Jens Hackmann


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Composition showing difference in brightness between the full Earth and Full Moon. [OC] [1500 x 1500]


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M82, the Cigar Galaxy [2160 x 2184]


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Triangulum Galaxy [7826x4402]


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I took a picture of the Tarantula Nebula from my backyard! [OC]


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Remember our brave souls who blazed the path for the future.


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Astronaut Robert Curbeam became the first person to perform 4 spacewalks on a single mission - Picture by NASA [1041x689]


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"So long, and thanks for all the fish!" (A Dolphin spotted on Jupiter by NASA's Juno spacecraft during a flyby conducted on 29-Oct-18)


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Sunday, January 27, 2019