Hayley Young

🌠 If you've ever wanted to see a meteor shower try and spot this one! On 12-13 August the Perseid meteor shower peaks with up to 100 meteors per hour.

🧭 Look toward the east in the early hours, around 04:00.

✨ Top tips and more stargazing challenges: www.spacecentre.co.uk/news/space-n...

A nebula with a bright star at its center. The nebula has three distinct layers, and the pattern in the layers repeats in a way that implies there are more layers outside the image boundaries, though they would be faint. The shape of the nebula is something like nesting yin yangs, with the center smallest one bright and dense, shining, smooth and golden. The middle one is orange and textured like a sherpa blanket. The largest, outer shell is fainter, and red like an ember. Its texture has softened along with its dissipation into space. There are some small stars speckled around the image, and one annoyingly bright, spiky one that's got too many colors because of the way the light spreads from point sources through the telescope's optics. A pale haze of grayish cloud also covers the scene, but it is sheer and translucent.

Apep. JWST. It's weird. Just look at it.

From GO 5842: What lies beyond the inner spiral of Apep?
Principal Investigator: Yinuo Han

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Illustration showing a pair of Mirasaura perched on fern fronds. The green animals show their tall orange, brown and white crests while a small beetle flies over one of them

Here it is! Please welcome the AMAZING Mirasaura grauvogeli, a NEW MARVELOUS Drepanosaur published in NATURE today!
This astonishing reptile lived during the Middle Triassic in Europe and it possessed an amazing crest made of plume-like structures!

I was commissioned to bring it to life
#paleoart

Betelgeuse is a double! Fun to learn something new about a familiar star.

A scared looking black and white border collie dog, she is laying down on fluffy bedding in her big crate

Torrential rain with thunder & lightning over us currently, our poor dog is so scared of the thunder that she's gone to hide in her crate

Unique ice, 1.5m year old, to be melted to unlock mystery BBC News went inside -23C freezers to see the ice that could

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Distinct bands and waves of noctilucent clouds, coloured yellow low down and light blue higher up, with some trees in the foreground.

An example of the different colours of #NoctilucentClouds a display can exhibit (yellowish close to the horizon and light blue just a little higher up), from the display on 2-3 July 2025. #NLC #NLCs #Noctilucent #Astronomy

A Paleontologist Matched Two Halves of the Same Fossil Stored at Different Museums—and Discovered a New Species Meet Sphenodraco scandentis, a tree-dwelling, lizard-like reptile that roamed around with the dinosaurs during the Late Jurassic period roughly 145 million years ago

A Paleontologist Matched Two Halves of the Same Fossil Stored at Different Museums—and Discovered a New Species www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/a...

A dual left/right stereoscopic image capturing some fractured Martian rocks somewhere on the western edge of the rim of Jezero Crater. This dual image is intended to be used to obtain a Stereo3D rendition of the scene through parallel viewing, and not cross-eyed viewing.

Stereo3D view captured by Perseverance with her WATSON camera

To go 3D: eyes' lines of sight parallel, left image for left eye, right image for right eye.

#Mars July 12, 2025 - Sol 1562 🧪🔭
Credits images: NASA/JPL-Caltech

A close-up shot of the noctilucent clouds display on 29-30 June 2025, showing the varied forms and blue hues of these unique clouds. Taken with a DSLR and 300mm lens.

A close-up shot of the #NoctilucentClouds display on 29-30 June 2025, showing the varied forms and blue hues of these unique clouds. #Noctilucent #NLC #NoctilucentCloud #Astronomy

A photo of noctilucent clouds over a silhouetted landscape. The background sky has a strong twilight gradient from yellow-orange near the horizon to pastel blue at the top. The noctilucent clouds stand out as bright white-blue tendrils.

A photo of noctilucent clouds over a silhouetted landscape. The background sky has a strong twilight gradient from yellow-orange near the horizon to pastel blue at the top. The noctilucent clouds stand out as bright white-blue tendrils.

#NoctilucentClouds last night as seen from South Devon. Haytor on Dartmoor is visible silhouetted on the horizon.

Silurians in Gold 9/2019 24 X 24 inches [61 X 61 cm] Colored Pencil on Paper #sciart #gawoski #fossil #trilobite

Galactic Mystery: How “Ice Cubes” Survive in the Milky Way’s Blazing Bubbles - National Radio Astronomy Observatory A team of astronomers has made a surprising discovery using the U.S. National Science Foundation Green Bank Telescope (NSF...

A team of astronomers has made a surprising discovery using the Green Bank Telescope: eleven fast-moving clouds of cold, neutral hydrogen gas surviving deep inside the Fermi Bubbles, two enormous lobes of superheated plasma erupting from the center of our Milky Way Galaxy. 🧪🔭

Imagine a life spent riding currents, never touching solid earth! @mbarinews.bsky.social Senior Scientist Bruce Robison is a midwater ecologist; he suspects this pelagic octopus is Japetella diaphana. ROV pilots collected this footage during the 2023 #OctopusOdyssey expedition at 1,047 meters.

Tiny creature gorges, gets fat, and locks up planet-warming carbon Scientists find out how the epic deep sea migration of a tiny animal is storing planet-warming carbon.

Did you spot this fab article highlighting ground-breaking research on zooplankton by the BBC? ✍️

These fascinating organisms are often easy to overlook, but zooplankton's impact on the environment is striking.

💡Learn more here: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Meteor pieces may have landed on Ben Nevis, say experts The small meteor lit up the night sky on Thursday and may have landed as meteorites across a vast area of the west Highlands.

Experts believe pieces of a small meteor that lit up the night sky over parts of the UK on Thursday may have landed on and around Ben Nevis. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... #Astronomy #Meteor #Space

200 million year-old jawbone revealed as new species The newly discovered flying reptile is the oldest pterosaur in North America.

200 million year-old flying reptile species found. 🔭 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The 2026 Meteor Shower Calendar Is Here | IMO We are pleased to announce the release of the Meteor Shower Calendar for 2026, an essential resource for anyone interested in observing or studying meteor activity over the coming year. As in previous...

For all #meteor enthusiasts: The 2026 Meteor Shower Calendar Is Here www.imo.net/the-2026-met... #Astronomy #Space

Fascinating: ESA is now preparing the Comet Interceptor mission

The spacecraft will be launched in 2029 into a parking orbit, lying in wait for a suitable target – a pristine comet from the Oort Cloud, or, unlikely but highly appealing, an interstellar object. 🧪🔭

➡️ www.esa.int/Science_Expl...

Clingy planets can trigger own doom, suspect Cheops and TESS Astronomers using the European Space Agency’s Cheops mission have caught an exoplanet that seems to be triggering flares of radiation from the star it orbits. These tremendous explosions are blas...

What a cool result led by @astroilin.bsky.social ! She has shown that a close in planet can induce flares on its host star. Silly planet. Read all about it here : www.esa.int/Science_Expl...

Rubin Observatory beneath the vibrant blue sky of twilight. The observatory is a boot-shaped structure at center, with long white service building and vertical silver dome. The thin, faint streak of a comet appears to the left of the observatory. Text reads "New citizen science project using NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory data. Introducing: Comet Catchers. Join the hunt for comets in Rubin data!"

Think you can spot a comet? ☄️

Try your eye with the *very first* citizen science project on @zooniverse.bsky.social that uses data from NSF-DOE Rubin Observatory, Comet Catchers! 🔭🧪

We can't think of a more fitting project for #AsteroidDay 🤩

☄️ cometcatchers.net ☄️

A timelapse of last night's #NoctilucentClouds display as seen from North Yorkshire. This covers about 15 minutes in real time. #Noctilucent #NLC #NoctilucentCloud #StormHour #PhotoHour

Beautiful display!
We had low cloud covering them, it was so frustrating as I could see the brightness of them through the little gaps in the clouds! Glad you got to see and photograph them!

I managed to catch some Noctilucent clouds from near Cheltenham before the not so nice clouds rolled in! #noctilucentclouds

The young female astronomer who worked out what the sun is made of 100 years ago, Cecilia Payne deduced that the sun is mainly made of hydrogen - but was encouraged to downplay her findings by her PhD supervisor. Mike Sutton takes up the story

One hundred years ago, scientists assumed the Sun was made of pretty much the same mix of elements as the Earth. But PhD student Cecilia Payne’s careful analysis showed her the strong spectral lines must mean the Sun contains vast quantities of atomic hydrogen.

This image contains the GeoColor and group energy density (from the Geostationary Lightning Mapper) products from GOES-19 at 16:24 UTC on 26 June 2025.

A bolide, or large meteor, broke up over South Carolina and Georgia earlier today, creating a fireball that was bright enough to be captured by GOES-19.

Rocks and sand. The main focus rock is shiny and gray with some dust in the nooks and crannies. NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/Kevin M. Gill

A shiny rock near the Mars Perseverance Rover, imaged on Sol 1546 (yestersol) using MastCam-Z.

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It looks like it could be a longhorn caddisfly (Mystacides nigra)
observation.org/species/717391

A star field is shown in infrared light. In the center is an extremely complex nebula that is outlines an iconic heart. Glowing gas shades the center of the heart red. Please see the explanation for more detailed information.

🔭 W5: Pillars of Star Formation

Image Credit: NASA, WISE, IRSA; Processing & Copyright : Francesco Antonucci

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Vera Rubin: First celestial image from revolutionary telescope The telescope should detect killer asteroids and may even find the ninth planet in our solar system.

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