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The European Space Agency's (ESA) Proba-2 satellite captured this ring from its viewpoint in space. Flying around Earth, the spacecraft witnessed the same solar eclipse no less than four times, including this perfect ring of fire at 11:31 Universal Time. The images were taken by the spacecraft's SWAP extreme ultraviolet imager, at a wavelength of 17.4 nanometres. Source: https://proba2.sidc.be/Eclipse17February2026 Credit: ESA/Royal Observatory of Belgium

Spectacular image of the annular solar eclipse of Feb 17, taken by the ESA Proba-2 satellite (725 km alt), at 17.4 nm wavelength, using the SWAP extreme ultraviolet imager.

From earth, the eclipse was visible only from the Antarctic region.

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Yesterday’s sidekick: Jupiter with two of its Galilean moons, Ganymede and Io.
Gear: 11" Schmidt–Cassegrain, 2600mm sensor, RGB filters.
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The nighttime River Nile delta seen from space.

The lights are a perfect illustration of how important water is to us and all life on Earth.

#astronomy

Image: NASA Earth Observatory

Wider angle view of the lunar Apennines and Hadley Rille.
Taken last night in average seeing 🔭

Curently onboard #WCRDarkTrain RX5 by @darktrain.bsky.social and loving "Tetsukuzu Grind" by @lemortedabby.com. Great stuff! 🌃🚂🎼🎵🎹😎
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For your #bandcampfriday needs. And a listening party on Monday!

An auxiliary telescope is visible at the centre of the picture, with the Milky Way in the background stretching across the sky.

In this image captured at Paranal, one of the Auxiliary Telescopes of our VLT is still asleep, with its spherical dome closed. 

But overhead, the night is wide awake and the #milkyway is putting on a stunning show!

Read more: https://www.eso.org/public/images/potw2607a/

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📷 A. Trigo/ESO

South Downs night sky images win photography competition An image of the Milky Way lighting up an abandoned barn scooped the top award in the competition.

South Downs night sky snaps win photography awards. 🔭 🧪 #astrophotography www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

🧪🔭 The Terra Hunting Experiment is *so close* to first light — our instrument HARPS3 is looking sharp!

If you wanna know more about our upcoming decade-long hunt for an exoplanet Earth, @sciencenews.bsky.social recently did this great article on what we’re up to: www.sciencenews.org/article/eart...

New moon 3% at sunset 20/01/2026

AstroBin's Image of the Day: "New moon 3% at sunset 20/01/2026" by Łukasz Żak
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Planet Jupiter looking starry at lower right. The bright star dots Castor and Pollux at left of centre. Many faint star dots.

The Jupiter/Castor/Pollux triangle from last night. 15 February 2026. 🔭 🧪 🎨 #astrophotography #SciArt #photography #StormHour #ThePhotoHour

The Sun as seen using a white light filter showing spots all on a dark background.

Today's Sun in white light. 14 February 2026. 🔭 🧪 🎨 #astrophotography #SciArt #photography #StormHour #ThePhotoHour

Currently onboard #WCRDarkTrain Px 3 by @darktrain.bsky.social and loving "Into The Fields" by #Trem77. Great stuff! 🌃🚂🎼🎵🎹😎
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Cosmic Storm at the Seagull's Wing

AstroBin's Image of the Day: "Cosmic Storm at the Seagull's Wing" by Gerardo Nicolás Rigiroli
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A nebula showing a glowing pink and white cloud of gas and dust set against a dense, star-filled background. Dark, branching dust lanes cut through the bright central region.

The Trifid Nebula is a favourite of astronomers, and this image shows just why.

So named for the dust bands that trisect its glowing heart, the nebula is a rare combination of three nebula types, revealing the fury of freshly formed stars.

More: https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso0930/ 🔭

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A picture of the Moon showing through labels and pointers all the locations where the Apollo astronauts landed.

Hopefully won't be too long before people are taking another amble on the Lunar surface, and I can add to the Moon landing sites on my picture. 🔭 🧪 🎨 #astrophotography #SciArt #photography #StormHour #ThePhotoHour

two color telescope images of jupiter. both show the great red spot, brown, tan, and white cloud bands, numerous festoons and white spots. the left image has a small orange disk just to the right of the limb. the disk is gone in the right but the great red spot has rotated for a better view. Taken with Meade 8" SCT with 2x Barlow and ZWO ASI662MC camera. Left image, the best 30% of 20,000 frames in a 3 min video were stacked in Aurostakkert and processed with Registax and Phtoshop. Right image, the best 30% of 12,000 frames in a 120 s video.

Cloudy last night so I had time to process more images from 2/3 when the seeing was good. The left shows Io about to disappear behind Jupiter while the Great Red Spot rotates into view. The right shows 13 minutes later. Still waiting for a perfect night of seeing! Details in ALT. #astrophotography

73.5% waning gibbous Moon.

Midnight Moon in London. Clear sky before bedtime. Goodnight all, have a great weekend! #astronomy #astrophotography @stormhour.com @photohour.bsky.social

In 1882, a comet appeared as the Moon blocked out the Sun during a solar eclipse.

As the eclipse took place in Egypt, astronomers named it Tewfik after the local ruler who had offered them such gracious hospitality.

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IC443, the Jellyfish Nebula. I've been working on this for three nights, each night as long as moonrise would allow. #Astronomy #Astrophotography

☄️ This is how comet C/2024 E1 (Wierzchos) looks from the Southern Hemisphere.
By mid-February, it will start to be visible from the Northern Hemisphere.
More information here 👇
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Image: Gerald Rhemann.
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The Tadpoles of IC 410

Here is my latest picture from the backyard using a portable deep-sky telescope setup: The Tadpoles of IC 410!

This is a great winter astrophotography target you can capture this month, as Auriga is still nice and high in the sky.

100 x 4-minutes (6.5 Hours Total) #astrophotography

NGC 2238 or The Rosette Nebula (also known as Caldwell 49) is an H II region located near one end of a giant molecular cloud in the Monoceros region of the Milky Way Galaxy. The open cluster NGC 2244 (Caldwell 50) is closely associated with the nebulosity, the stars of the cluster having been formed from the nebula's matter. The nebula has a shape reminiscent of a human skull, and is sometimes referred to as the "Skull Nebula". It is not to be confused with NGC 246, which is also nicknamed the "Skull Nebula".

(1 of 2) First narrowband attempt! 🌌 Rosette Nebula in Hα/OIII/SII with the RedCat 61mm and QHY MiniCam8—shot from my backyard. A rewarding step in my astro journey. More to come!

🔭 William Optics RedCat 61
📷 QHY MiniCam8
Total exposure: 2 h 25 min

#Astrophotography #Space #DeepSpace #Astronomy

A wide-field astronomical image showing a glowing pink and red nebula surrounded by countless stars against a dark sky. The nebula has a bright core and clouds of gas and dust spreading outward.

A feast for the eyes 🤩

This gorgeous starscape is a vista of the Lagoon Nebula. See the dark patches scattered all over it? They're huge, collapsing clouds of gas and dust that will soon give birth to clusters of young stars.

Read more: https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso0936/ 
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A wide, detailed view of the Orion Nebula showing swirling clouds of glowing gas and dust in soft blues, golds, purples, and reddish browns. At the center, a bright, misty core surrounds a cluster of young stars, while darker dust lanes cut through the luminous nebula. Scattered white stars dot the black background of space, giving depth and scale to the scene.

I took another shot at the Orion Nebula for the 2026 season, but this time I brought out my full astro rig rather than a smart scope. You can read more including my processing sets at my blog. Let me know how you'd improve this image!

#astrophotography #astronomy #space
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That sunspot cluster from earlier in the week continues to make its way across the solar disk (today Thursday 11AM eastern US time). AA4366. The biggest spot is about five Earth diameters wide.

#aa4366 #sunspot #astrophoto

The Moon at Full on a dark background.

I've just submitted my picture of this month's Full Moon to Astronomy Now magazine. 🔭 🧪 🎨 #astrophotography #SciArt #Photography #StormHour #ThePhotoHour

Currently onboard #WCRDarkTrain R2 by @darktrain.bsky.social and loving the awesome session by The Central Office of Information. Great stuff! 🌃🚂🎼🎵🎹😎
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Good evening!
It’s ℞ 2 on Moonday night and we have very special Cargill on board with The Central Office of Information’s DT mix.
Departing UFO Central [Warminster Community Radio] y Radio MINERVA at 2200 GMT//1800 ART.
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I sometimes despair that the camera can never really capture just how amazing the natural world can be. But sometimes, just sometimes, the winter light hits those reeds and all those reflections pop... #birds #birdphotography #birding #photooftheday #photography #NatureIsAmazing