In case you missed it, here's a lightning strike over Italy. Photographed from the International Space Station

Carl Sagan on why books are human’s greatest invention:

A roughly rose-shaped and rose-colored nebula with an open cluster of bright young stars in its central dark space. This is the Rosette nebula, Caldwell 49, in the Monoceros constellation.

I turned away from drinking in the firehose of bad news last night to take my telescope out to a dark clearing in the forest. It was a bit cold, 4 degrees F, but stars shined bright overhead.🔭🧪

The lights with the snow is beautiful

200,000 light-years in the Small Magellanic Cloud is a young, bright star cluster known as NGC 602.
#NGC602 #NASA #ESA #JWST

1. M51
2. Supernova (SNR156)
3. M81 & M82

"The Deep Sky Collective" is a growing group of amateur astrophotographers. Don't let the word amateur fool you, they're much more than casual observers.
With some images taking weeks of observing time, this is some of their work.

#DeepSkyCollective #NASA

23 hour exposure of The Pleiades aka The Seven Sisters.
#NASA #Pleiades #SevenSisters
#FrancescoPelizzo

The eruption of the Sarychev volcano in Kamchatka as seen from the ISS.

New Deep Field from JWST

The Spiderweb Protocluster, located in the Hydra Constellation, shows galaxies in the early stages of their evolution.
#JWST #Spiderweb #Protocluster #ESA

NGC 300
Located 6 million light-years away in the Sculptor Constellation. This image was taken by the ground based telescopes in Chile, and took over 20 hours of exposure.

Split comparison of Hubble and JWST observing NGC 1566