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YouTube video by MC Box Mariah Carey DOESN'T KNOW what an ELECTRICITY BILL is!

Well… she also doesn’t know about bills. youtu.be/RL6zoDy7mG8?...

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Lunar Occultation of Antares and Occultation by Asteroid 2002 NZ47 YouTube video by The Wonky Astronomer

Yes that's fine. The video is taken from a live stream which includes the disappearance of Antares and an attempted asteroid occultation too. You can use any part of that video too if you like. Full video here: www.youtube.com/live/BHs0NLH...

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I observed an occultation of binary star Antares by the moon. The smaller star of the pair reappeared on the moon's dark limb a few seconds before the brighter star. #astronomy #occultation #moon

NASA’s Webb Images Young, Giant Exoplanets, Detects Carbon Dioxide - NASA Science NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has captured direct images of multiple gas giant planets within an iconic planetary system. HR 8799, a young system 130

Nothing to see here. Just JWST 🔭 IMAGING A PLANETARY SYSTEM AROUND ANOTHER STAR. Look at the different planet colors! Go NASA science!!! science.nasa.gov/missions/web...

YouTube video by The Wonky Astronomer Two Occultations in 12 minutes - March 13 2025

Tonight I'm live steaming from Hazelbrook Observatory. Two asteroid occultations in 12 minutes. Starting at 12:30 UTC March 13. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3OMi...

This timelapse series captured on October 14 is set against the sunrise view from Sunset Point, Bryce Canyon, planet Earth. Of course on that date the New Moon caught up with the Sun in the canyon's morning skies. Local temperatures fell as the Moon's shadow swept across the high altitude scene and the brilliant morning sunlight became a more subdued yellow hue cast over the reddish rocky landscape. In the timelapse series, images were taken at 2 minute intervals. The camera and solar filter were fixed to a tripod to follow the phases of the annular solar eclipse.

My friend Martin Ratcliffe recently shared his photo montage of the 2023 annular solar eclipse over Bryce Canyon, Utah.

I may be biased, but I think it's spectacular (and it got selected for an astronomy picture of the day). 🧪🔭

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On Sunday night, at a club observing session with the 30-inch telescope, I took this 30 second exposure of the scene and accidentally caught #comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) in the background. The bright object on the right is the crescent moon. #Astronomy

Saturn, the Moon and Venus, tonight (1 Feb’25) over Port Phillip Bay, Melbourne. (Neptune is in there too for those with good eye-sight). @davidbflower.bsky.social

Europa and it's shadow transits across Jupiter! Beautiful sequence taken over 2 hours with a Celestron 14" EHD telescope and QHY678m camera. (R, 3910mm FL) 📷🔭

#Asteroid 2024 YR4 may impact Earth on Dec. 22 2032 (1.3% chance). Official statement from the International Asteroid Warning Network. iawn.net/documents/NO...

🌟 This stunning image of C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) was captured just 2 hours ago from southern Australia. The streamers of gas and dust, known as synchrones, are caused by the breakup of the comet's nucleus.🔭
#astrophotography #comet

Exp: 23 x 30s
Scope: Askar SQA55
Rig details: skymaps.com/ir0/

A long ago collision of two galaxies stirred up this far off star system called the Black Eye Galaxy (M64) and resulted in all this dark galactic dust obscuring the active starburst core. I photographed this using a 16 inch vintage telescope and modern ccd camera

#astrophotography #space #galaxies

Stellarium graphic showing the shadow of Titan transiting across Saturn's disc on 23 January 2025.

23rd: The shadow of Titan transits low across #Saturn's disc between 15:28 and 21:00 UT this evening.

Memo to NASA employees announcing the end of DEI across the agency.

So I guess the crew of Artemis 3 will be four straight white guys. #DEI

Human Altitude xkcd.com/3039

The image shows a comet with a long arching tail set against a colourful twilight sky featuring red, orange, pale blue and dark blue colours.

Comet C/2024 G3 ATLAS photographed about one hour after sunset tonight from West Beach, located near Adelaide in South Australia. Despite the twilight conditions, many passersby were able to see the comet with just their eyes.
Exposure: 1x10sec
Equipment: skymaps.com/ir0/
Credit: Kym Thalassoudis

I took this photo of the #moon 12 years ago today with an iPhone 5 through my 12-inch Dobsonian telescope. Not sure I could do any better with a modern phone! #Astronomy #Astrophotography

While here in eastern Australia we have clouds and rain for the next week…

YouTube video by Jean-François Gout Mars egress

Video of #Mars egress from behind the #moon by Jean-François Gout. Recorded at ~2FPS with an ASI2600MC on a C8 at F/7.0. Played back at 12x real speed. youtu.be/_hc6Q3b53oM
#Occultation

It's not over-sharpened and looks much better than the first photo.

Messier 83 (Southern Pinwheel) is a spectacular face-on spiral galaxy in the constellation Hydra at a distance of 14.7 million light years. The galaxy is quite bright, so the image appears instantly when my telescope lands on it. Using a monochrome camera helps. #M83 #Astronomy #Astrophotography

Lunar occultation of Elnath just now from Kuala Lumpur.Due to very cloudy sky, I couldn’t make any good recording with the IOTA-VTI .I was frantically adjusting the exposure in & out! In fact I thought I might have totally missed it 30 seconds before ingress! #astronomy #astrophotography

YouTube video by Janusz Wiland Zakrycie Saturna 4.01.2025

A nice video of the occultation of Saturn (and triple star 83 Aquarii) on Jan. 4th from Poland. credit: Janusz Wiland. #Astronomy #Saturn #moon www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzqO...

The Beames Observatory dome at night with the milky in the background and a smaller telescope on the ground.

An observer on a stepladder at night, looking through a telescope with the milky way in the backgroud.

A night at Linden Observatory. The Beames Dome contains a vintage 24-inch telescope which is not in useable condition. The second pic shows a 16-inch dobsonian telescope in use while the red light on the battery pack lights the scene. #Astronomy

Io specular reflections An animation showing how the specular highlights on Jupiter's satellite Io vary when the viewing geometry changes. The illumination geometry is constant. The…

An animation showing how Io's specular highlights change with changing viewing geometry. The illumination geometry is constant. The highlights are rendered using a preliminary illumination model - the specular reflections are based on the Phong specular reflection model.

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The dark Horsehead Nebula seen against a red background. The white Flame Nebula at bottom left.

The Horsehead and Flame Nebulae, located in the constellation Orion about 1400 light years away. The Bright star between them is Alnitak, the easternmost star in Orion's belt. This image is stack of 36 x 30sec exposures with a ZWO ASI533MC camera. #Astronomy #Astrophotography

Taking up the central area of the image is the colorful supernova remnant DEM L 190, which is made of intricate tendrils of cosmic material glowing in shades of purple, yellow, orange, and blue. The edges of the image are black and scattered with red and purple-ish stars.

Thousands of bright stars shine against black space, more tightly condensed near the image’s center. The stars glint in shades of white, blue, and red, and diffraction spikes are visible around the foreground stars.

The giant nebula NGC 3603 is a prominent star-forming region in the Carina spiral arm of our galaxy, about 20,000 light-years away. Within its core is nestled a stellar "jewel box" of thousands of sparkling young stars, one of the most massive young star clusters in the Milky Way Galaxy. The cluster is surrounded by purple clouds of interstellar gas and dust — the raw material for new star formation. This bubble provides an unobstructed view of the cluster and reveals stages in the life cycle of stars.

A prominent, eight-pointed star shines in bright white at the center of this image. A clumpy cloud of material surrounds this central star, with more material above and below than on the sides, in some places allowing background stars to peek through. The cloud material is a dark yellow closer to the star, and turns a pinkish purple at its outer edges. Combined together, the central star and its cloud resemble the delicate petals of a cherry blossom. The black background features many smaller white stars scattered throughout.

space fireworks to celebrate the new year 🎆