Catherine Ryan Hyde Mars in the Beehive cluster this morning. I had a second sequence all set up to get much shorter exposures that didn't blow out Mars. Unfortunately, the sky completely fogged over before I got there. #Astronomy #Astrophotography
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Astrophysica Spiral galaxy NGC 2566, 76 million light-years away. This James Webb Space Telescope image highlights the galaxy’s compact bright core and tendrils of interstellar dust.
Corey S. Powell Out of a wreckage of a dying star, a new planet was born. And now that planet is evaporating like a comet, leaving a trail that whips around the star every 4 days. It's a remarkable story written in chemical clues. Nobody has ever seen anything like it before. 🧪🔭 esahubble.org/news/heic2613/
James Webb 🔴 Gallery NASA's James Webb Space Telescope on Flickr (Jul 10, 2022) Webb captures the first clear evidence of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere of exoplanet WASP-39 b, revealing its unique light curve during transit. flic.kr/p/2nGvETL
Ele Willoughby For #spacetober_challenge day 11 prompt crew or cargo spacecraft, my portrait of mathematician, aeronautical engineer, philanthropist and Cherokee ‘hidden figure’ of the space race: Mary Golda Ross (1908-2008). 👩🏻🔬🎢🔭🧪🐡 #histsci Great-great-granddaughter of Chief John Ross, who was forced to lead
Astronomy Bot International Space Station Tracking The ISS is currently over Italy Latitude 41.563287270814 Longitude 12.458322268139 Orbiting at 17,133.00 miles/hour Altitude of 490.97km At 13 : 30 UTC, in 1 hour time, the ISS will be passing over 638W29G2+GF, -3.9737163407587,-141.64875170791 At 14 : 30...
WFLA News Channel 8 ON THIS DATE | On October 11, 1968, Apollo 7, the first crewed flight of the Apollo program, was launched from Florida with astronauts Walter Schirra Jr., Donn F. Eisele and R. Walter Cunningham aboard. wfla.com
Stargazer Daily The MTM separation is BepiColombo’s first step toward Mercury orbit, a milestone for probing the planet’s extreme environment. If this sparked another question, keep going here (Ad AmazonAffiliate)→ https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CPM58YC6?tag=wtsr0f-20 #Mercury
AstroBin AstroBin's Image of the Day: "SATURN 2026/09/26 2349 color and mono mixed" by Pierre GILET www.astrobin.com/6zvrmt/ #astrophotography
Astronomy Unlocked The sequence began when BepiColombo’s Mercury Transfer Module separated on 3 Sep 2026, after an eight‑year trek, with signal acquisition. For the astronomy-curious, this is worth exploring (Ad AmazonAffiliate)→ https://www.amazon.com/dp/197712691X?tag=wtsr0f-20 #Mercury
JBGarrity Photography For the spooky season, I'll feature a Hallowtober deep-space object each week. Week two: Casper the Friendly Ghost Nebula. Its nebulosity consists of blue reflection (eyes), dark dust (face/shading), and red Hα emission. #astrophotography #astronomy #nature #longexposure #eastcoastkin #photography
James Webb 🔴 Gallery ESA/Webb (@esa.int) images (Jun 25, 2025) Using the James Webb Space Telescope's MIRI, astronomers detected TWA 7b, a young planet with a mass similar to Saturn, orbiting the star TWA 7. esawebb.org/images/weic2512/
American Mathematical Society Marcus Khuri, Stony Brook University, will give an Invited Address on “Geometric Inequalities and Black Holes” today at the AMS SE Sectional meeting at Kennesaw State University. Read more: https://meetings.ams.org/math/fall2026se/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/59141
DoctorTheopolis A Stanley Kubrick joint TODAY IN HISTORY: Happy Birthday, NASA! The National Aeronautics and Space Administration became operational on October 1, 1958.
Astronomy Bot International Space Station Tracking The ISS is currently over 766W8QHH+35 Latitude 14.327728876016 Longitude -81.222025890733 Orbiting at 17,131.00 miles/hour Altitude of 486.82km At 11 : 30 UTC, in 1 hour time, the ISS will be passing over 4Q4J3P42+FP, -47.943846740888,132.70184553961 At 1...
Telescope What is Webb observing? Target: 2M2139+02 Target Category: Exoplanet Atmospheres And Habitability Research Program: The Polar Expedition: Extracting Spectra of Polar Regions in Planetary-mass Objects and Brown Dwarfs […] [Original post on stefanbohacek.online]
The Astronomer After eight years, BepiColombo’s Mercury Transfer Module separated on 3 Sep 2026, beginning the arrival sequence at Mercury with signal acquisition. If this sparked another question, keep going here (Ad AmazonAffiliate)→ https://www.amazon.com/dp/197712691X?tag=wtsr0f-20 #Mercury
SempaiScuba 11 October 1968: The launch of Apollo 7. This was the first crewed flight in NASA's #Apollo program. #History #Space #exploration
Kym @ The Evening Sky Map The planet Mars is currently passing through the Beehive star cluster (aka M44). The celestial event is visible worldwide in the morning sky and makes for a wonderful photo opportunity. 🔭 More sky events: skymaps.com/sc2610/
Michael Merrifield Last night’s observation was of the nebula Sh2-140, which illustrates two ways to see a molecular cloud: the dust in it hides myriad background stars in the lower half of the image; and a massive young star that formed from it illuminates its edge with ionising light, making the gas there glow. 🔭🧪
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Astronomy Picture of the Day 🪐 🔭 Ice Fishing for Cosmic Neutrinos Credit: NSF, B. Gudbjartsson, IceCube Collaboration ap261011
Dalmars Curiosity Rover Image is he pointing
ESA Space Science Are we there yet? 😜 After eight years in space, Bepi and Mio can finally say: almost there! Send them a #WelcomeToMercury message and you could win a trip to ESA in Darmstadt, Germany, this December. Say hello 👇 esa.int/WelcomeToMercury 🔭