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An orbital sunrise is featured in this image photographed by an Expedition 40 crew member on the International Space Station. Crew members onboard the space station see, on average, sixteen sunrises and sunsets during a 24-hour orbital period....
Hey everyone, I’m sorry for the bad news, but the instance lemmy.fmhy.ml is gone and all of the communites look to be gone with it. I’m not even positive that this post will work, but I’ve made a new community at lemmy.world/c/spacepics or !spacepics@lemmy.world and I hope that you will join me there....
Grains of cosmic dust streaked through night skies in early May. Swept up as planet Earth plowed through the debris streams left behind by periodic Comet Halley, the annual meteor shower is known as the Eta Aquarids. This year, the Eta Aquarids peak was visually hampered by May’s bright Full Moon, though. But early morning...
Charon is 1,214 kilometers (754 miles) across. That’s about 1/10th the size of planet Earth but a whopping 1/2 the diameter of Pluto itself, and makes it the largest satellite relative to its parent body in the Solar System. Still, the moon appears as a small bump at about the 1 o’clock position on Pluto’s disk in the...
The growth of this community continues to amaze me. We’ve made this the place for the most premier Space-related-beauty on Lemmy and continue to bring in new user’s at a huge pace. There’s a continued increase in user contribution as well and it’s great seeing the different celestial objects or image types that different...
Source: The Furthest Pictures of Earth Ever Taken mashable.com/…/earth-pictures-images-from-space
A river delta inside an impact crater? Yep. By woodgrainterrain.com
Hi, Just wanted to drop a line. I love all the awesome pictures being posted and I have always had an interest in astrophotography. I have a relatively inexpensive telescope and no idea what I’m doing, lol. But I e been doing a lot of research and am hoping to get some photos of the moon for example as a starting place in the...
[Image Description: A cluster of stars in warm and cool colours. The whole view is filled with small stars, which become much denser and brighter around a core just right of centre. Most of the stars are small, but some are larger with a round, brightly-coloured glow and four sharp diffraction spikes. Behind the stars, a dark...
cross-posted from: sh.itjust.works/post/1210989...
his tantalizing trio of galaxies sometimes called the Draco Group, is located in the northern constellation of Draco, the Dragon all found within this single telescopic field of view that spans a little more than the width of the full moon.
A mere 390 light-years away, Sun-like stars and future planetary systems are forming in the Rho Ophiuchi molecular cloud complex, the closest star-forming region to our fair planet. The James Webb Space Telescope’s NIRCam peered into the nearby natal chaos to capture this infrared image at an inspiring scale.
An increase in surface activity is expected because our Sun is approaching solar maximum in 2025. However, last month our Sun sprouted more sunspots than in any month during the entire previous 11-year solar cycle – and even dating back to 2002. The featured picture is a composite of images taken every day from January to June...
IMO the ‘heart’ looks more like a chode with huge balls...
NASA - Image Credit: Mark Hanson; Data: Mike Selby...
If our Sun were part of this star cluster, the night sky would glow like a jewel box of bright stars. This cluster, known as M53 and cataloged as NGC 5024, is one of about 250 globular clusters that survive in our Galaxy. Most of the stars in M53 are older and redder than our Sun, but some enigmatic stars appear to be bluer and...
This shows the Messier 16 Eagle Nebula region of the sky in true color, without the use of any filter. This region is most often captured in narrowband. You can see the wings of the eagle spanning in rich hydrogen alpha gas, and the bright stars lighting up the famous Pillars of Creation....
A spiral galaxy with a small central bar, M66 is a member of the Leo Galaxy Triplet, a group of three galaxies about 30 million light years from us. The Leo Triplet is a popular target for relatively small telescopes, in part because M66 and its galactic companions M65 and NGC 3628 all appear separated by about the angular width...
Deep in the South constellation Apus lies a truly spectacular field of nebulosity. Not far from the South Celestial Pole (at declination -80º), this nebula is very rarely captured, especially in full colour. This image shows a region catalogued by Steve Mandel and Michael Wilson in early 2000s as the 9th and last entry to their...
The growth of this community continues to amaze me. We’ve made this the premier Space-related sub on Lemmy and continue to bring in new user’s at a huge pace. There’s a continued increase in user contribution as well and it’s great seeing the different celestial objects or image types that different users prefer....
The Pelican Nebula is changing. The entire nebula, officially designated IC 5070, is divided from the larger North America Nebula by a molecular cloud filled with dark dust. The Pelican, however, is particularly interesting because it is an unusually active mix of star formation and evolving gas clouds. The featured picture was...
Why would the sky glow like a giant repeating rainbow? Airglow. The air glows all of the time, but it is usually hard to see. A disturbance however – like an approaching storm – may cause noticeable rippling in the Earth’s atmosphere. These gravity waves are oscillations in air analogous to those created when a rock is...
Europa is one of the moons of Jupiter. It is especially interesting because it is thought to have water oceans under it’s icy surface which could potentially harbor life!...
These three bright nebulae are often featured on telescopic tours of the constellation Sagittarius and the crowded starfields of the central Milky Way. In fact, 18th century cosmic tourist Charles Messier cataloged two of them; M8, the large nebula below and right of center, and colorful M20 near the top of the frame. The third...
