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X-ray Clues Reveal Destroyed Planet

This was shot from Roswell New Mexico using a canon 6D, rokinon 135mm, and star adventurer. I captured about 30x30" frames during the deepest part of the eclipse and stacked them here. All of the data for m45 and the faint nebula was acquired during the eclipse, no compositing from other images here!

Pastel clouds and ocean from the ISS ©

SH2-240 Spaghetti Nebula

2 panel mosaic

January 27-29, 2025

Zionsville, IN, Bortle 6-7

SVBONY SV550 APO 80 mm'

ZWO AM 5, ASIAIR plus, Guided

Antlia ALP-T Dual Narrowband Filter

ASI2600 MC PRO

Gain 100, -10C, darks, flats, bias

ca. 7 hrs per panel (7 hrs total per night)

Artemis II Stacking Operations Update

Teams with NASA’s Exploration Ground Systems Program continue stacking the SLS (Space Launch System) rocket’s twin solid rocket booster motor segments for the agency’s Artemis II mission, inside the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Currently, six of the 10 segments are secured atop mobile launcher 1 with the right […] from NASA https://ift.tt/1uI7Dtq

Cosmic Keyhole" (NGC 1999) Scientists first believed that the conspicuous hole in the center of this nebula was a Bok globule - a dense, cold cloud of gas and dust that blocks out background light. But later observations suggest that the dark patch is actually an empty void in space

Female Astronauts in History:

Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman to go to space in 1963.

She orbited the Earth 48 times, spent almost three days in space, is the only woman to have been on a solo space mission and is the last surviving Vostok programme cosmonaut.