Mercury In Color

Perfectly timed for Halloween, NASA is showing off a remarkable image of a ‘ghost nebula’ captured by the Hubble Space Telescope.

The incredible "Ghost of Cassiopeia" image was captured by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. (NASA, ESA and STScI; Acknowledgment: H. Arab [University of Strasbourg])

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Jupiter and Ganymede in near – UV and blue, jointly captured by Juno aircraft, remastered by Judy Schmidt

Image Credit : Judy Schmidt via Flickr

Have you guys watched the new Alien Worlds docuseries on Netflix?

The Deep Lagoon also known as M8, captured at Mt. Lemmon Skycentre, Arizona, is located on the constellation of Sagittarius towards the centre of Milky Way.

Image Credit : Adam Block//Mt. Lemmon SkyCentre Arizona//Univ.Arizona

Mars as seen from Hubble, snapped on April 27th through May 6th, 1999.

Image Credit : NASA COMMONS

The Lonely Neutron Star In Supernova Remnant E0102-72.3 (the blue dot at bottom left) blue represents X-Ray light captured by NASA'S Chandra observatory, while the red & green represent optical light captured by ESO'S telescope in Chile and NASA'S Hubble in orbit. (Text adapted from apod.nasa.gov)

Credit : X-Ray — Chandra Observatory & Optical light — ESO / HUBBLE

Galaxy NGC 2768 as seen by Hubble on my birthday.

Check out what Hubble captured on your birthday here – https://www.nasa.gov/content/goddard/what-did-hubble-see-on-your-birthday

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Happy Solstice 2020!

The evening began with a beautiful sunset:

...though pretty clouds meant Jupiter and Saturn's closest dance was a little fuzzy:

They'd traded places and moved much closer than on Saturday:

This longer Saturday exposure shows Saturn's biggest moon, Titan (arrow), and all four of Jupiter's Galilean moons:

...and here's Jupiter's moons plus Titan (arrow; another arrow points out Amalthea hugging its parent world) tonight:

Happy Great Conjunction Day!

Arecibo Observatory Collapse

The arrangement of the spiral arms in the galaxy Messier 63, seen here in an image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, recall the pattern at the center of a sunflower.

 Credit: ESA/Hubble&NASA