Breath the Alps… captured at the Mt Pelvoux, France
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Breath the Alps… captured at the Mt Pelvoux, France
A rough, rubbly looking terrain that looks like that weird lint crap that builds up in crawlspaces.
This photo was taken on the surface of an asteroid.
James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) reveals Herbig-Haro 49/50—a dramatic protostellar jet from a forming star, with intricate gas and dust structures in near- and mid-infrared light. A chance alignment with a distant spiral galaxy adds a stunning cosmic backdrop. The color palette highlights different wavelengths of light, from near-infrared (NIRCam) to mid-infrared (MIRI). Credit: NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI/Jackie Branc, Program 6558, PI: Macarena Garcia Marin. NIRCam: F144W,F335M,F200W,F115W,F444W-F470N MIRI: F770W
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Multi-band imaging of protostellar jet
⛏️ Digging in the archives
2024-08-06
PI: Macarena Garcia Marin
NIRCam: F144W,F335M,F200W,F115W,F444W-F470N
MIRI: F770W
Credit: NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI/Jackie Branc
#protostellar #protostellarjet #Herbig-Haro49/50
PERSEVERANCE 1790 © NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/NeV-T
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Gigapan - gigapan.com/gigapans/238...
GIGAmacro - viewer.gigamacro.com/view/pY8areZ...
Gigapan Website - www.nev-t-gigamacros.com
#Mars #science #NASA
Comet C/2024 E1 Wierzchos
📸Gerald Rhemann
Feb 14, 2026 Farm Tivoli, Namibia
The dynamic of the comets ion tail is visible and the comet is moving along the sculptor dwarf galaxy in that animation of 19 luminance frames
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SN-H0pe | NIRCam #JWST
I had wanted to upload the image at the beginning of the year but I forgot. I will upload the observation from 2025-05-20 (Proposal ID: 4744) in the next few days.
Proposal ID: 4446
Filters: f090w, f150w, f200w, f277w, f356w, f444w.
Jupiter, with the great red spot and the shadow of Io, from Pioneer 10
Jupiter from Pioneer 10 near closest approach. Radiation caused the scanning photometer that built up this image to shift several times.
Ganymede from Pioneer 10
Jupiter and Io from Pioneer 10 as it left the Jovian system behind.
Today in 1972, Pioneer 10 was launched, becoming humanity's first spacecraft to cross the asteroid belt, encounter Jupiter, and leave the planetary system.
a yellow (false-color) nebula resembling the state of California
To California, from Kansas
NGC 1499, aka the California Nebula, in SHO. Just under 80hrs total exposure time, all from my backyard in Kansas.
#astrophotography
A jet coming out of a galaxy
Radio #galaxy (4C 00.58) with a black hole in the center spewing out an astrophysical jet of material. #JWST 🔭 NIRCam (F444W)
program: www.stsci.edu/jwst-program...
PI is Eileen Meyer @eileen-meyer-astro.bsky.social
#blackhole #jet #astronomy
Scoria Cones on Earth and Mars
The hill-shaped features are a sign of explosive volcanic activity - a rarity on the Red Planet. #Mars 🧪🔭
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"500 hrs with Andromeda Galaxy
I spent several of these months with M31,andromeda galaxy, shown here with a deep narrowband exposure.
📸Bray Falls
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Corona UV signals observed under a thunderstorm on 27 June 2024. (a) Approximate location of all 859 corona UV signals observed during the ∼1.5-hr observation period on a sweetgum tree. Each corona UV signal is colored by the number of total isotropic UV photons between 255 and 273 nm emitted by the corona discharge, as estimated from the illuminated pixels observed in that frame. The boxes depict the Corona Observing Telescope System (COTS) UV camera field of view, and the colors indicate the observation time for the branch within each box. Panel (b) as in (a), but for all 93 corona UV signals observed during the ∼20-min observation period on a loblolly pine tree. Locations of boxes and corona UV signals are only approximate because the wind blew the branches in and out of the COTS field of view. Note a corona UV signal is defined as a contiguous bundle of several illuminated pixels.
Coronae glow on the tips of spruce needles, induced by charged metal plates in a laboratory. These weak electric discharges subtly singe the tips of leaves and needles, and new observations indicate they may occur ubiquitously across treetops under thunderstorms. Credit: William Brune
During thunderstorms, electric discharges in the air cause trees to glow with an ultraviolet aura. You can't see it with your eyes, but researchers have finally managed to measure it & recreate it in the lab. 🧪🔭
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We have some really, really cool photos of the Moon.
This is one—of Malapert massif, one of the candidate Artemis III landing sites.
Taken from an oblique angle by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera on 3 March 2023, the image is about 50 km across in the foreground.
Credit: NASA/GSFC/ASU
A cool thing in these JWST 🔭 Uranus infrared images -- ASIDE from the (artificially-blue) polar cap & the dynamic bright clouds -- is the imaging of the aurora! It is the reddish glow extending above the clouds (e.g. 10 o'clock in the image on the right) www.scientificamerican.com/article/new-...
A snowy pine forest and a field of fresh snow, under a clear, starry sky with the clouds of colorful stars and dust in the Milky Way core. Uintah Mountains, Utah in February 2026. Photo: Bill Dunford
Galactic core and pines, life in the Milky Way galaxy.
Like fingers the nebula stretches to the upper left.
Eagle Nebula at 50% original resolution. #JWST NIRCam.
I did choose to not use the filters in order. F444W blue, F470N (molecular hydrogen) green, F335M red (PAHs)
program: www.stsci.edu/jwst-program...
Mars Perseverance Sol 1779: Left Mastcam-Z Camera | enhanced mosaic panorama. NASA's Mars Perseverance rover acquired this image using its Right Mastcam-Z camera. Mastcam-Z is a pair of cameras located high on the rover's mast. Feb. 20, 2026 (Sol 1779), 4 photos between 11:24-11:25 Source images: Mars_Perseverance_ZL0_1779_0824866278_394EBY_N0860000ZCAM09831_0630LMJ/0824866297/0824866228/0824866312 Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/Jackie Branc
🔴 #Mars #Perseverance Sol 1779: Left #Mastcam-Z Camera | enhanced mosaic panorama
Feb. 20, 2026 (Sol 1779), 4 photos between 11:24-11:25
Source images: Mars_Perseverance_ZL0_1779_0824866278_394EBY_N0860000ZCAM09831_0630LMJ/297/228/312
Credit: #NASA/ #JPL-Caltech/ #ASU/ Jackie Branc
#RedPlanet
Image of blue bands/spots and a violet extended spot near the lower-left lib
No spots or bands. 3.26 to 3.36 Microns
Emission at 4.35 Microns. Likely aurora.
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Planet #Neptune with #JWST NIRSpec. Observation date: 2025-11-27
First image (color) is a combination of blue (2.88 to 3.1 Microns) and orange (4.21 to 5.02 Microns) with emission around 4.35 Microns (aurora H3+ emission) in violet.
Fun little paper we published last month got picked up by earth.com. The author got it mostly right. There was no press release so he seemed to go above and beyond and read the paper and some citations in it and used references. Nice work. #scicomm 🧪 www.earth.com/news/antarct...
Comet C/2024 E1 Wierzchos on 2026 Feb.11.54UT.
By Mitsunoi Tsumura
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Image of the planet with a red polar cap and a blue spot near the cap.
At 3.1 to 3.87 Microns, spot still visible, but polar cap is not there.
Narrow emission at around 3.953 Microns. No polar cap. Brighter at the rim.
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#JWST NIRSpec observations of planet #Uranus from yesterday (2026-02-20).
I tried to get a colored image (first image). Blue is 2.88 to 3.1 Microns, orange is 4.21 to 5.02 Microns.
Thank you!
Since I already have a map in a simple cylindrical projection for Pluto, I posted it on my Flickr account.
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There were requests for textures from my maps in more suitable projection for use in other projects.
I have most of them directly in projections used in maps.
The exception is the Pluto map where I made the base map directly in the cylindrical projection, so here it is
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I'm not geologist so I can't comment much from that perspective but my favorite is entire Aphrodite Terra. There are multiple areas in it where are ~8 kilometer differences in topography on very short distance. For example drop between Atahensik Corona and Dali Chasma.
This is the first (correctly-exposed) photograph of Earth taken by a human from space, captured 64 years ago today by NASA astronaut John Glenn from inside his Friendship 7 capsule during the Mercury-Atlas 6 orbital mission on February 20, 1962.
There is an email address written at the bottom of description in every of my maps.
Also if your use meets the conditions of creativecommons.org/licenses/by-...
you don't need my direct permission at all!
A high-resolution image of the planetary nebula IC 5148. The nebula is a vibrant, glowing sphere, predominantly electric blue and pale turquoise. At its center is a tiny, bright white light, which is the progenitor star. The nebula is surrounded by a wispy outer halo of darker blue gas, and the entire nebula lies in front of a background of distant stars and galaxies.
This week’s image is of IC 5148! Gemini South’s GMOS was used to observe this planetary nebula, whose cloud of gas is expanding outwards at a speed of 180,000 km/hr! Check out the 🧵 for more papers involving GMOS data!
#Astronomy
All Members of the Solar System Beyond Saturn and Smaller Than 80 Kilometers In Diameter for Which We Have Disk-Resolved Imagery shown at 1 km/pixel (at least in the original version, Bluesky may alter the scale). Data for Pluto’s Moons (Styx, Nix, Kerberos, Hydra) and Arrokoth from New Horizons Courtesy NASA/SWRI/APL. Data for Naiad (Neptune), Belinda (Uranus), and Cordelia (Uranus) from Voyager 2 Courtesy NASA/JPL
These little worlds are fascinating. Given the little swarms around Uranus and Neptune, plus the whole host of KBO objects, it is enough to wet one's appetite, but our datasets are so limited.
The ultraviolet aurorae on Ganymede, based on Juno’s close-up observations from 7th July 2021. As Juno flew by Ganymede at high speed, its UV spectrograph could only acquire narrow strips, combined here to display the overall shape of the aurora Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/UVS/ULiège/Gusbin/Bonfond
From NASA
Nice glow up: Using data from NASA's Juno mission, scientists from the Laboratory of Atmospheric and Planetary Physics (LPAP) have observed fine details in the auroras on Jupiter's giant moon Ganymede for the first time. missionjuno.swri.edu/news/univers...
Only two filters but I've done a try
James #Webb Space Telescope #JWST
A Fundamental Study of Star and Planet Formation:
Spectroscopic Confirmation of Free-floating Jup. Mass Obj. in #NGC 2024
2025-02-10
De Furio, Matthew
NIRCAM 430m182m
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NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI/j. Roger
