Night view of an observatory at dusk with telescope domes in silhouette, while the Milky Way stretches across the sky above.
Congratulations, Babak Tafreshi, for being named National Geographic Explorer at Large! 👏
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Babak is author of many amazing pics of our observatories 🧵👇
Image 1: Sunset over the VLT
🔭 #flashback
The brief version of my previous argument: by insisting that cosmic expansion is not „motion through space,“ we are cutting ourselves off from the usual concepts of acceleration and force, which are derived from describing motion in space. But for questions like „if the cosmos expands, do 1/ 🔭🧪🎢⚛️
A complex nebula is shown that is mostly blue and red on the left half and mostly brown on the right. Several bright stars are visible, and many filaments run through, in particular on brown dust filamnents on the image right. Please see the explanation for more detailed information.
🔭 Orion: The Running Man Nebula
Image Credit & Copyright: Robert G. Lyons (Robservatory)
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A disc-shaped galaxy. It glows brightly at the centre and shines a faint white light all around it. The disc is made up of tightly-packed rings of dust, some darker and some lighter. Wide, long lanes of dark reddish dust cross the galaxy in front of its edge, blocking out some of its light; the long strands twist and break apart at each side. A couple of nearby stars and distant galaxies are also visible on the black background.
Hubble has captured the sharpest image yet of the lenticular galaxy NGC 7722 and its long, winding dust lanes!
Read more 👉 www.esa.int/ESA_Multimed...
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In a starfield glowing red, several features stand out. On the right is a diffuse white band, and on the upper right is some dark dust. Most prominently, though, are two blue structures in the center, one of which has a dark band running across near the middle. Please see the explanation for more detailed information.
🔭 M78: Reflecting Blue in a Sea of Red
Image Credit & Copyright: Daniel McCauley
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A galaxy is shown that has a lot of blue and red dots in it. The galaxy is an long elliptical blob across the middle and not a classic spiral. Please see the explanation for more detailed information.
🔭 NGC 55: A Galaxy of Nebulas
Image Credit & Copyright: Wolfgang Promper; Text: Ogetay Kayali (MTU)
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Musk speach in #Davos
Full size in 5k: www.flickr.com/photos/192271236@N03/54418306900/sizes/o/ See license below Credit: NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI/j.Roger/AndreaLuck CC BY NASA/ESA JWST Webb Space Telescope Title: Multi-band imaging of protostellar jet Target: Herbig-Haro 49/50 Distance: 625 light-years Time: 2024-08-06 Instruments: NIRCam, MIRI Filters: F200W, F335M, F444W, F470N, F770W Colours Assigned: Blue, Cyan, Green, Orange, Red Proposal ID: 6558 www.stsci.edu/jwst/science-execution/program-information?... Image created processing data from: mast.stsci.edu/ PI: Macarena Garcia Marin PI Institution: STSI - ESA - JWST Image created using data processed from: mast.stsci.edu/ Product IDs: jw06558-o026_t001_nircam_clear-f200w jw06558-o026_t001_nircam_clear-f335m jw06558-o026_t001_nircam_clear-f444w jw06558-o026_t001_nircam_clear-f444w-470n jw06558-o026_t001_nircam_clear-f770w Credit: NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI/j.Roger/AndreaLuck CC BY Feel free to share, giving the appropriate credit and providing a link to the original media on Flickr: creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
Herbig Haro 49/50 - NASA/ESA JWST Space Telescope - From Andrea Luck (andrealuck.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/2qUL3JG
Off the Shoulder of the Seagull
AstroBin's Image of the Day: "Off the Shoulder of the Seagull" by Ian Inverarity
www.astrobin.com/gy8082/
#astrophotography
#Canada is beginning a process of new western unification.
M33 in the constellation Triangulum. With the HII region NGC604 visible in the outer regions of the upper spiral arm. Imaged with my SW 130/650mm Newton and Canon EOS 750d on a SW HEQ5 Pro mount.
Image of M33 in the constellation Triangulum from ~August last year. It is always fascinating what an old DSLR can achieve with a bit of patience.
Of course a modern dedicated camera like a Asi 2600 is more efficient for #Astrophotography but at 5 to 6 times the price? Maybe a 2 GOTO mount instead?
India's astrotourism boom draws urban stargazers beyond city limits. 🔭 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
"Шановні пантери", "Очкуйте" замість "Очікуйте", "Дивіться додатки" - Їх не прикріплено, "Шановні олеги" Бувало? #спж
What is #solidarity?
Engli erected this stone in memory of his son Thorald, who was killed in Vitaholm — between Ustaholm and #Gardari
A tech city will emerge in #Zanzibar — #Dunia Cyber City is set to become a technological hub of East Africa.
" #Europe must clearly define its strategic objectives in Russia’s war against Ukraine, including the restoration of Ukraine’s territorial integrity, the payment of reparations, and regime change in Moscow" Habsburg says .
Good night
Really clear night. Got much better images of Orion nebula and Andromeda galaxy, M31, than posted last time. And took longer exposures. Enjoy
#karoshi An interesting topic: here’s what lies behind high development and the cult of high performance at any cost.
Far more than fantasy worlds. #LordoftheRings
Форма сучасного економічного поневолення. Роздумує Ватикан. #Vatican
Going through my collection of decent astro images over the past 18 months, thinking of having a few prints done. For every success there have been 3 failures I would think, mostly down to satellites leaving trails. Bad weather has been another major factor. Patience is a virtue in this game 😊🔭
