#sky and telescope

[inkyvoids]

It has been worth the wait: NASA gave the public a first look today at what’s inside the sample return capsule, newly arrived from the small carbonaceous asteroid 101955 Bennu. The sample represents the largest collection of asteroid material to date, and it will offer researchers a first-hand look at pristine material from the primordial solar system. Today's reveal previews some of the science that's in store.

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Mars, Jupiter, Venus, Saturn, 25.01.25, by Manusia dan Langit (composite picture of the alignment also called “planet parade”)

[spacewonder19]

Hubble's new 35th anniversary images ©

[the-wolf-and-moon]

Aurora of Jupiter

[without-ado]

Hubble's anniversary images (2019-2025)

"I believe our future depends on how well we know this Cosmos in which we float like a mote of dust in the morning sky." —Carl Sagan

[ancientsstudies]

Supermoon by garrastro.

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[tenkuu-otoshi]

The first image of Saturn from the James Webb Space Telescope

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[eclipse-astro]

hi everyone 👋

astronomy is cool and space is cool

this is my telescope, and the photos i've taken with it below \/

jupiter, saturn and the moon (with mars passing behind in a rare conjunction)

(jupiter/saturn both imaged separately in the sky and put together into one image for convenience)

[inkyvoids]

Astronomers have discovered a ghost-like galaxy twice as large as our own Milky Way but no more massive than the puny Small Magellanic Cloud, our galaxy’s dwarf satellite. Since the new galaxy’s stars are spread out over a huge volume, it’s invisible to most telescopes, like a Halloween specter. The origin of Nube (Spanish for “cloud”), as astronomers are calling the new find, may challenge popular ideas about the nature of dark matter.

[chl0420]

01/05/2025

first pic with my telescope

she’s beautiful

[spacewonder19]

Hubble's edge-on galaxy NGC 3432

[the-wolf-and-moon]

W3/W4/W5 Complex, Star Formation

[without-ado]

Webb captures the Rings of Giant Planets

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𝗡𝗔𝗦𝗔 𝗛𝘂𝗯𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗦𝗽𝗮𝗰𝗲 𝗧𝗲𝗹𝗲𝘀𝗰𝗼𝗽𝗲 𝗶𝗺𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗘𝗮𝗴𝗹𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝗯𝘂𝗹𝗮 (𝙈𝙚𝙨𝙨𝙞𝙚𝙧 𝟭𝟲). Infrared photograph, September 2014.