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01/08/2026

Constellations feel timeless, but they weren’t always familiar!⁠ ⁠ From 100,000 BC to 2025 AD, star patterns slowly drift into the shapes we recognize today.⁠ Initially, some barely resembled our modern constellations.⁠ ⁠ Which one was the hardest to recognize in the past?⁠ ⁠

La Nebulosa di Orione è stata la mia prima sfida nel profondo cielo, la mia prima vera lezione sull’attesa della luce✨ I...
01/08/2026

La Nebulosa di Orione è stata la mia prima sfida nel profondo cielo, la mia prima vera lezione sull’attesa della luce✨ Il mito lo racconta irruento, imperfetto, m0lest0; nel cielo, invece, è pazienza e ritorno, e mi ha insegnato a fermarmi🌌 In ogni mia immagine di M42 c’è un pezzo di me, del mio impegno vero e mai misurato❤️ Orione è amare il buio per catturare la luce, é il luogo che cerco quando mi sento un canguro in un mondo di soffitti troppo bassi 🦘 🔭📷💻S50_Siril_AdobeLR

01/02/2026

Who has the biggest “moon squad”? 🪐✨⁠ ⁠ Mercury — 0 😶⁠ Venus — 0 😶⁠ Earth — 1 🌍🌕⁠ Mars — 2 🔴🔹🔸⁠ Jupiter — 97 🤯⁠ Saturn — 274 👑💛 (yes, *two hundred seventy-four!*)⁠ Uranus — 29 🩵⁠ Neptune — 16 🔵⁠ ⁠ Some planets travel solo, others have whole families — and the numbers keep growing as we discover new tiny moons. 🔭✨⁠ ⁠ Could you live on a moon? If yes, which one? 🏠🌕⁠ ⁠

The N159 star-forming complex in the Large Magellanic Cloud, approximately 160 000 light-years awayHubble
01/02/2026

The N159 star-forming complex in the Large Magellanic Cloud, approximately 160 000 light-years away
Hubble

12/28/2025

Every Planet’s Moons Ranked!

NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day features the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS.On December 19, it made its closest pass to...
12/27/2025

NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day features the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS.
On December 19, it made its closest pass to Earth at 1.8 AU.
This deep exposure captures it earlier, on December 15.
The comet drifts across faint stars in the constellation Leo.
🎨 A yellow dust tail,
a blue ion tail,
and a greenish coma are visible.
🚀 Now leaving the Solar System at ~64 km/s.
✨ A true messenger from another star system.

Storm of a trillion stars ✨
12/19/2025

Storm of a trillion stars ✨

Here is the 75.6% illuminated moon from last night before the rain came later on. Happy December everyone, let’s have a ...
12/10/2025

Here is the 75.6% illuminated moon from last night before the rain came later on. Happy December everyone, let’s have a good one 😁🎄 Moon Age - 8.9 days old Waxing Gibbous 🌔 Moon distance to Earth - 365,839 km when this was taken at 5:04pm on 30th of November 2025 :) Equipment & Settings Nikon Coolpix 1000 Best 75% of 480 frames stacked :)

Long-distance friendships can be a beautiful thing 💞Two galaxies in the Arp 295 system stretch a 250,000-light-year brid...
12/09/2025

Long-distance friendships can be a beautiful thing 💞
Two galaxies in the Arp 295 system stretch a 250,000-light-year bridge of stars between them
Gravity pulls, bends, and reshapes their forms as they drift across cosmic space
Even our Milky Way will one day merge with Andromeda in a similar celestial embrace
A thin glowing stripe from Arp 295a reminds us that even across vast distances, light always finds a path

The number of galaxies in the observable universe is indecipherable! 😮 Estimates range from billions to trillions of ind...
12/08/2025

The number of galaxies in the observable universe is indecipherable! 😮 Estimates range from billions to trillions of individual galaxies; & this is JUST galaxies WITHIN VIEW. Now think of the numbers of stars found within the galaxies. Each galaxy contains at least millions or billions of stars; some even host a trillion stars! The universe is incomprehensibly scaled & filled with astronomical objects that cannot be numbered. In this composite image are examples of such sights: galaxies, stars, and planets. 📸 Composite Image by .a.harris Image Credit: NASA, ESA, NOIRLab et al.

12/07/2025

The Elephant Trunk Nebula as seen through the Seestar telescope.

Mars, Jupiter, Venus and Saturn 🪐
12/05/2025

Mars, Jupiter, Venus and Saturn 🪐

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