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[without-ado]

Full Plankton Moon over Maldives l Petr Horálek via NASA APOD

[spacewonder19]

The Seagull Nebula © Gianni Lacroce

[lisamarieblair]

The Seagull Nebula

[thefirststarr]

The total solar eclipse seen in Dallas, Texas on Monday, April 8, 2024!! A total solar eclipse swept across a narrow portion of the North American continent from Mexico’s Pacific coast to the Atlantic coast of Newfoundland, Canada. A partial solar eclipse was visible across the entire North American continent along with parts of Central America and Europe.

Was anyone able to see it?

Image Credit & Copyright: NASA/Keegan Barber

[vibrantestvixen]

From NASA (Astronomy Picture of the Day - March 11, 2024)

What glows in the night? This night featured a combination of usual and unusual glows. Perhaps the most usual glow was from the Moon, a potentially familiar object. The full Moon's nearly vertical descent results from the observer being near Earth's equator. As the Moon sets, air and aerosols in Earth's atmosphere preferentially scatter out blue light, making the Sun-reflecting satellite appear reddish when near the horizon. Perhaps the most unusual glow was from the bioluminescent plankton, likely less familiar objects. These microscopic creatures glow blue, it is thought, primarily to surprise and deter predators. In this case, the glow was caused primarily by plankton-containing waves crashing onto the beach. The image was taken on Soneva Fushi Island, Maldives just over one year ago. Photographer credit: Petr Horalek

[aeontriad]

Supernova Remnant Simeis 147

[mizelaneus]

[spaceadvances]

Made with narrowband filters, this cosmic snapshot covers a field of view about the size of the full Moon within the boundaries of the constellation Cygnus. It highlights the bright edge of a ring-like nebula traced by the glow of ionized sulfur, hydrogen, and oxygen gas.

Embedded in the region's interstellar clouds of gas and dust, the complex, glowing arcs are sections of bubbles or shells of material swept up by the wind from Wolf-Rayet star WR 134, brightest star near the center of the frame. Distance estimates put WR 134 about 6,000 light-years away, making the frame over 50 light-years across.

Shedding their outer envelopes in powerful stellar winds, massive Wolf-Rayet stars have burned through their nuclear fuel at a prodigious rate and end this final phase of massive star evolution in a spectacular supernova explosion. The stellar winds and final supernovae enrich the interstellar material with heavy elements to be incorporated in future generations of stars.

📷: Craig Stocks

[briery]

An iridescent pileus cloud over China.

[capturingthecosmos]

Colors of the Moon via NASA https://ift.tt/U92nP51

[without-ado]

Andromeda Galaxy & Comet Pons-Brooks

l Petr Horálek l Revúca Slovakia l composited

[spacewonder19]

The Pleiades: Seven Sisters © Craig Stocks

[uzaydanhaberler]

İzlanda Üzerinde Ejderha Aurorası

Günün Astronomi Görseli 14 Ocak 2024 Görsel & Telif: Jingyi Zhang & Wang Zheng Daha önce gökyüzünde bir ejderha gördünüz mü? Gerçekte uçan ejderhalar var olmasalar da 2019’da, İzlanda’nın göklerinde şekli dev bir ejderhaya benzeyen bir aurora oluştu.  Aurora Güneş’in koronasındaki, Dünya’nın manyetosferine doğru değişen bir gezegenlerarası manyetik alanı izleyen, bir güneş rüzgarına yüklü…

[thefirststarr]

What's that at the end of the road? The Sun. Many towns have roads that run east-west, and on two days each year, the Sun rises and sets right down the middle. Yesterday, in some parts of the world (today in others), is one of those days: an equinox. Not only is this a day of equal night and day time, but also a day when the sun rises precisely to the east and sets due west. Displayed here is a picturesque rural road in Alberta, Canada that runs approximately east-west. The featured image was taken during the September Equinox of 2021, but the geometry remains the same every year. In many cultures, this March equinox is taken to be the first day of a season, typically spring in Earth's northern hemisphere, and autumn in the south.

Image Credit & Copyright: Alan Dyer, Amazingsky.com, TWAN

[beautyandtheuniverse]

NGC 1333: Stellar Nursery in Perseus Image Credit:Science - NASA, ESA, STScI, Processing - Varun Bajaj (STScI), Joseph DePasquale (STScI), Jennifer Mack (STScI)

[heracliteanfire]

“The featured image of Jupiter's clouds was composed from images and data captured by the robotic Juno spacecraft as it swooped close to the massive planet in August 2020.” 

(via APOD: 2023 May 23 – Jupiters Swirls from Juno)