#CASSINI ORBITER #SATURN MISSION
Target: #Iapetus
Time: 2007-09-10
Body Center Distance (km): 72321.968
Camera: Wide Angle IR GRN Vio Filter
opus.pds-rings.seti.org/opus/#/COISS...
NASA/JPL/j. Roger
#CASSINI ORBITER #SATURN MISSION
Target: #Iapetus
Time: 2007-09-10
Body Center Distance (km): 72321.968
Camera: Wide Angle IR GRN Vio Filter
opus.pds-rings.seti.org/opus/#/COISS...
NASA/JPL/j. Roger
Nice work! I also like the color/filter indicator.
Maybe you could add the program ID to your image description so one can find out more about the image and when it was taken :)
NGC-2440 | NIRCAM #JWST
filters: f164n, f212n, f356w, f405n.
I played with the colors; if I followed the sequence of each filter like the Nircam chart, I didn't like the result.
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
On March 31, 2005, just minutes after the Cassini spacecraft's closest approach to Titan during the Titan (T-4) Flyby, Cassini viewed Saturn peeking through Titan's thick atmosphere. Saturn's rings are seen here casting dark, dramatic shadows across the planet's northern disk (upper left). This composite is made of images that were taken by the Cassini spacecraft's camera system, the Imaging Science Subsystem (ISS) on March 31, 2005 and received on Earth April 1, 2005. Cassini was approximately 1,200,000 km away from Saturn and 7,000 km away from Titan. The images were taken using red, green, and blue filters. Credit: NASA / JPL / SSI / Ian Regan / Val Klavans
Saturn through Titan's haze - From Val Klavans (valklavans.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/TbspjU
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A nebula with a dark line in the middle and parallel at the top and bottom two bright lines. The top nebula is redder than the bottom nebula.
Re-visiting of the flying saucer 🛸, a protoplanetary disk. It is a edge-on #protoplanetary disk discovered in 2003 with the Very Large Telescope (VLT).
#JWST 🛰️🔭 image with licence on wikimedia: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:JW...
This Image of the Week of the NGC 1269 galaxy was taken utilizing the Department of Energy-fabricated Dark Energy Camera (DECam), which is mounted on the U.S. National Science Foundation Víctor M. Blanco 4-meter Telescope at NSF Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory, a Program of NSF NOIRLab. NGC 1269 is an early-type spiral galaxy located about 33 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Eridanus. A bar, a feature common to many spiral galaxies, slices through the center of the galaxy. Surrounding the galactic core are both inner and outer disks, seeming to form ‘wheels’ around the core. Their presence is thought to be the result of a merger with another galaxy, and the inner disk is also believed to have been further shaped by density waves radiating outward from the galactic center. Data for this image came from the archive of the Dark Energy Survey (DES), operated by the DOE and NSF between 2013 and 2019 with the specially-designed DECam. The survey sought to study the nature of the elusive dark matter by imaging hundreds of millions of galaxies. Today, the DECam is available to other scientists for use on the Blanco telescope.
NOIRLab image of the week
The Cosmic Steering Wheel NGC 1269
Credit: Dark Energy Survey/DOE/FNAL/DECam/CTIO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA; Image processing: R. Colombari & M. Zamani (NSF NOIRLab)
noirlab.edu/public/image... 🧪🔭
Instrument: LANDER VISION SYSTEM ELM_0000_0666952787_500EDR_N0000005LVS_04000_0000LUJ01 LMST: Sol-00000M15:50:53.66559 Start time: 2021-02-18 20:41:17 UTC Height above ellipsoid: 7871 m Height above landing: 10108 m Speed: 514 km/h This image is a mosaic of 11 LCAM images taken at roughly 10km altitude shortly after heat shield separation. It was processed from RAW EDR images from the PDS and gamma adjusted to create a realistic representation of brightness and contrast. This version of the image was colorized using a mosaic of RDCAM images and Aster Cowart's Jezero Crater mosaic (flic.kr/p/2kymR7f) to create an authentic color representation how the descent would have looked to the human eye. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Aster Cowart/Simeon Schmauß CC BY NC SA
Perseverance landing LCAM mosaic colorized - From Simeon Schmauß (stim3on.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/2qMvNak
26.02.2026 12:00 — 👍 78 🔁 10 💬 0 📌 0It is time we stop this madness. Just because you can, doesn't mean you should. We have to stop these billionaires ruining our planet.
26.02.2026 09:12 — 👍 101 🔁 48 💬 3 📌 0A satellite re-entering every 3 minutes. Seems fine.
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James #Webb Space Telescope #JWST
MIRI and NIRCam observations of a planetary nebula
#Planetary Nebula Center
2025-03-31
PI: Garcia Marin, Macarena
MIRI 1800 1280 1130 1000 NIRCAM 444-470 444 187 150
yuval-harpaz.github.io/astro/jwst_l...
NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI/j. Roger
The colorful clouds of stars and dust at the core of the Milky Way crosses a clear night sky, above a snowy pine forest and a field of new snow. Photo: Bill Dunford
The sky a finished masterwork. The ground a blank page.
Uintah Mountains, Utah
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
These gravitational lens images are really cool to see.
24.02.2026 11:50 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I'm glad it's working for you!
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A long orange arc above the central galaxy. A smaller, but brighter orange arc on the right. A very curved arc at the bottom. A bright deformed galaxy to the left. A spiral galaxy (not deformed) on the upper left.
Gravitational lens around SDSS J1326+4806 with #JWST 🔭 NIRCam (F115W, F150W, F444W)
program: www.stsci.edu/jwst-program...
#galaxy #gravitationallens #astronomy
Very happy to see this being shared widely, AND people are submitting their comments and feedback in!
Keep it going - it's important!
We have to also think pro-actively. Today it is #SpaceX, tomorrow it going to be someone else.
We need to push for UNOOSA satellite caps + constellation approvals.
The Fellowship of the Telescopes: "For centuries, humanity has looked to the stars and wondered what lies beyond the veil of night. Once, our eyes were our only instruments, but today, our reach extends across the cosmos." www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8Fk...
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We humans are strongly influenced by the presence of companions over the course of our lives, shaping each other emotionally, culturally, or intellectually. This shaping effect is made literal in the case of stellar companions, which is the topic of today's Picture of the Week. The pair of points at the centre of the image, taken with ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), are an old stellar couple — a binary system officially called AFGL 4106. As most stars are born in pairs, a big question for astronomers is how does being in a couple impact a star's death? Before dying, stars expel huge amounts of gas and dust, ingredients for a growing nebula. The massive stars shown here are at close yet distinct late stages of their lifecycles, with one having blown off enough mass to produce a dusty surrounding envelope. In a new paper led by Gabriel Tomassini, a PhD student at the Université Côte d’Azur (France), researchers have mapped this debris, shown here in orange, and precisely characterised the central stars (marked in black). Imaging astronomical objects close to stars poses a challenge due to the overpowering effect of a star's brightness and, in fact, the stars themselves appear in black as their brightness saturated the detector of the instrument used to make this image. Fortunately, the SPHERE instrument on the VLT is well equipped to deal with large contrasts in light levels, enabling a detailed study of both the high luminosity stars and the faint surrounding nebula for the first time. Moreover, it can correct the blur caused by atmospheric turbulence, delivering very sharp images. The shape of the nebula reveals the significant impact the companion is having on the gas ejection of the dying star, introducing asymmetries and shifting the clouds of gas and dust away from a perfectly spherical shape. Further observations of star systems like this one allow scientists to better understand how the presence of companions affects the death of stars.
Très fier de Gabriel Tomassini, mon doctorant, pour cette image extraordinaire.
AFGL 4106, deux étoiles à 10000 années-lumière, ont vécu ensemble et meurent ensemble, formant cette étonnante nébuleuse grande comme 15 000 fois la distance Terre-Soleil. Voici les derniers moments de leur vie.
Mars Raw Utils is a fantastic program for anyone wanting to get into Mars image processing!
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On 17 February, there was an annular solar eclipse visible only from Antarctica… and from space!
👇ESA’s Proba-2 satellite recorded the same eclipse no less than four times as it whizzed round Earth!
📷Credit: ESA/Royal Observatory of Belgium
Starting this Friday, four separate #JWST programmes will be exploring physical processes in Jupiter's atmosphere and ionosphere. We're asking amateur astronomers to help provide context imaging over the next few weeks to understand how the atmosphere is changing with time. #planetaryscience
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A large mosaic of 700 thumbnails of declassified spy satellite images on spacefromspace.com
A screenshot of a dark world map with many coloured outlines representing the areas covered by satellite images on spacefromspace.com.
spacefromspace.com/declassified... is now home to over 700 georeferenced spy satellite images of locations all over the world taken between 1960 and 1984!
I've also published a new, very experimental, map view search method for all images available on the website: spacefromspace.com/declassified...
Mostly blue to orange clouds. A bright star on the bottom right with a blue ring-shaped nebula.
Outskirts of the Flame Nebula (NGC 2024) with #JWST 🔭 NIRCam (F182M, F430M) from this program: www.stsci.edu/jwst-program...
The star with a blue nebula at the bottom right is 2MASS J05413744-0149532. #FameNebula #star-formation
it's incredible how fast the last 5 years have flown by. Happy anniversary to #Perseverance landing on Mars! 🎂🥳
If you want to relive this incredible moment, look no further than this remastered video of the #EDL by @stim3on.bsky.social @theseaning.bsky.social
🔭🐡🧪🎨
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHhy...
4x4” acrylic painting of Perseverance rover with Ingenuity underneath
Perseverance celebrates 5 years on Mars! This is a painting of the day Ingenuity unfolded (rip 🥲🚁)
#space #astronomy 🔭🧪🐡
In this image a shot during landing of Nasa Perseverance from the perspective of the rover. The heat shield was already released and it's visible at the centre of the image. In the background the rim of the Jezero Crater and its delta. Colours assigned are from the dark of the more external atmosphere layers to the rusty red of the red planet surface.
5 years ago today! Can anyone send me to the next century, please?
Landing on Mars - NASA Persevererance
Full size image: flic.kr/p/2oA8d1p 🔭🧪
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Simeon Schmauß/AndreaLuck
A colourised version of the amazing mosaic processed by @stim3on.bsky.social (flic.kr/p/2ozrqnk)
From NASA on the fifth anniversary of the Perseverance landing
A new meaning to finding yourself📍
Our Perseverance Mars rover can now pinpoint its location without help from operators on Earth. Read more about the tech that makes it possible: go.nasa.gov/4rvMEwa
Happy birthday Perseverance. Now save MSR.
www.scientificamerican.com/article/nasa...
An image of Mars taken by the HiRISE camera aboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. It shows the Mars Perseverance rover on its descent to the surface, its parachute spread out above it, with the surface of Mars in the background. An inset image shows an zoomed-in view of the rover Entry-Descent-Landing stage.
Five years ago today! We imaged Perseverance on its descent to Mars, under fairly challenging conditions but we did it because we have a kickass team.
www.uahirise.org/ESP_068281_9...
