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Synoptic map of the sun

- low solar flare activity
- 5 rather simple sunspot groups on the visible disk; 4384 is showing development
- negatively polarised coronal hole CH29- will cross the central meridian soon and could bring fast solar wind in 3-5 days

This one looks like a piece of jade to me with these colors. The colors are, of course, representative or "false" color, depending on how you want to word that. As an example, here is another rendition of this nebula using almost the same data. For this, the bluer patches indicate slightly stronger OIII emissions while the greener ones are slightly stronger in H-alpha. There are tiny little red things to the left and right of the nebula glowing in NII which look something like slightly smudged stars. I presume they are tiny FLIERS. Red: hst_11956_04_wfpc2_f658n_wf_sci Green: hst_11956_04_wfpc2_f656n_wf_sci Blue: hst_11956_04_wfpc2_f502n_wf_sci North is NOT up. It's 33.3° clockwise from up.

IC 289 - From Judy Schmidt (geckzilla.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/ihJRKD

How many missions built so far will eventually leave the Solar System for good?
Not that many. There are only 6.

Only 6 spacecraft will ever escape Solar System

No human has ever left the Solar System,& only 6 already-launched spacecraft will ever exit it. Will Voyager 1 remain the most distant?

Meteor 30th January 2026 @11.25pm
Marlborough, New Zealand

📸Lynda Mai
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Satellite photo of the Namib Desert. The top two-thirds are covered in red, undulated sand dunes, leading down to a dry river bed, seen in bands of blue and white. Along the river bed, black dots of vegetation curl around the pointed tips of dunes.

#PPOD: Korea’s Kompsat-2 satellite captured this image over the sand seas of the Namib Desert on 7 January 2012. The blue-and-white area is the dry riverbed of the Tsauchab. Black dots of vegetation are concentrated close to the river’s main route, while salt deposits appear bright white. 🧪

A bright source with long stretching diffraction spikes in the middle. A jet comes out towards the lower right. Parts of a possible counter-jet are seen towards the upper left. Other galaxies are also in the image.

Another #galaxy with a jet. The center of the galaxy is bright because of the active galactic nucleus (in other words the active black hole and its environment).

ESO 362-21 (target name: 0521-365) with #JWST NIRCam (F444W) from this program: www.stsci.edu/jwst-program...

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aurora from February 14-16, Skjervøy - Norway.
Lumix s5 raw pics
18mm, f1.8, iso variable depending on photos between 2500-4000, variable pose time between 1/250 when ultra bright and 3 sec
📸GGhesquiere Photography
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🔤 EHT A-Z
We’re breaking down the science behind the Event Horizon Telescope - one letter at a time.

📡 W is for Water Vapor
Our atmosphere sustains life, but water vapor absorbs the faint radio signals from black holes.

That’s why our telescopes typically sit on high, dry mountaintops.

11th Feb, 2026, Jokulsarlon Glacier Lagoon, Iceland. A short time lapse, shot with a Canon R5 Mark 2, & Sigma 14-24mm lens. 4 seconds per frame, f2.8, ISO 3200. 90 frames total.

📸Danny Reardon
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Iceland, February

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Iceland, February

📸Danny Reardon
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Early last week, 22nd Feb - Southern Tasmania.

📸Bruny Island Aurora Photography
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M43

AstroBin's Image of the Day: "M43" by Deep Space Remote Observatories - Steve Mandel, Bob Fera, and Steeve Body

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#astrophotography

data: SN-2007IT, released: 2026-02-28, processed: C.Blanchard

🔭 JWST Program 6049, T.Szalai (PI) - Populating the Gap in Dust-Formation History of Type IIP Supernovae: www.stsci.edu/jwst-program...

data: SN-2007IT, released: 2026-02-28
NASA, ESA, CSA, STSci/ #JWST MIRI 1500, 1000, 560

The corresponding view in white light, showing several active regions -1.3.26

Right to left: AR 4378, 4380 and 4381. Nothing particularly impressive so far, all three are classified as beta regions by the SWPC with relatively low flare potential.

Jure Atanackov
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Small and beautiful plasma eruption from SE side of☀️-1.3.26

Helioviewer

About 5 hours after lunar sunset on March 16, 2025, the solar-powered lander's batteries depleted and communications were lost. The mission's end was officially declared at 23:25 UTC.

Firefly thus became the first commercial company to complete a fully successful soft landing on the Moon. As part of NASA's Commercial Lunar Payload Services program, the mission delivered ten scientific and technological experiments to advance future human exploration under the Artemis program.

Blue Ghost Mission 1 was a robotic Moon landing mission by Firefly Aerospace (Firefly) that launched on January 15, 2025, and soft-landed on the lunar surface on March 2, 2025, at 08:34 UTC.

1 y ago
"Firefly land on Moon! After identifying surface hazards & selecting safe landing site, #BlueGhost landed directly over the target in Mare Crisium. Historic moment on 2.3.25 we'll never forget. We have Moon dust on our boots! #BGM1 "

📸 Firefly Aerospace(full👇)
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Amazing. How the lunar eclipse from Earth (14.3.25), looks like from the Moon(solar eclipse) by Blue Ghost lander, Firefly aerospace

otal Solar Eclipse seen on the moon by Blue ghost
Blue Ghost turns 🔴
The red hue is the result of sunlight refracting through the Earth's atmosphere as the sun is blocked by our planet, casting a shadow on the lunar surface.
The glowing ring of the eclipse is again seen on Blue Ghost’s solar panel.

Firefly’s Blue Ghost lander captures image of Earth reflecting off the solar panel with the Moon on the horizon above Earth. Firefly’s X-band antenna and NASA’s LEXI payload are also shown on the top deck of the lander.
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Sun sets on the moon and lander Blue Ghost captured amazing views.

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1 supernova has been observed in NGC 2775. SN 1993Z (Type Ia, mag. 13.9) was discovered by Leuschner Observatory Supernova Search (LOSS) on 23 September 1993.
By September 25, spectral analysis showed that it had peaked about four weeks earlier.
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NGC 2775 - JWST (close up)

By Jac Berne, NGC 2775

NGC 2775 or Caldwell 48 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Cancer. Discovered by William Herschel in 1783

SN1993z is the only known supernova in this galaxy.

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