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The Right Light.
In the Right Place.
At the Right Time.
Keep telling your local planning authorities this.
More info darksky.org
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Jun 9
In 2023 JWST discovered some strange very distant "red dot" objects suspected to be early black holes surrounded by gas and dust.
A recent paper has confirmed these do appear to be supermassive black holes, but have formed Before their surrounding galaxy. This contradicts our previous understanding that SM BH's formed by assimilating stars and matter from centre of existing galaxies.
Image: NASA
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Surface image of asteroid Ryugu taken by Japan's space agency (JAXA) Hyabusa 2's twin Robots in 2018.
The picture showed in clear relief the rugged, boulder-strewn landscape.
Samples were returned to Earth and have been studied and exhibited in museums around world. Its composition including amino acids and nucleobases.
Image: JAXA
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Amazing Astronomy retweeted
Jun 6
I finally captured some cloud structure on Venus.
Filters: Antlia Venus-U and IR850.
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Jun 8
What does the night sky look like on Mars?
Are there any Real photos of Mars night sky?
🧵1/2....
There have been several recent posts going around by less-than-legit feeds trying to show Mars' night sky behind one of the NASA Rovers. These are All Fake.
Either a long exposure zoomed in image of Earth's sky is used, or to confuse even more an infrared image.
🤔What would it look like?
Almost the same as from Earth.
Mars is not far away enough to see any difference in the stars/nebula you would see.
The only real difference would be Earth/Moon and Mars' two Moons would be seen in the sky. The star & nebula would be in exactly the same position.
Although there is no light pollution and thinner atmosphere, there is so much dust in Mars' atmosphere, the stars would look fainter than from Earth.
Twilight is much longer due to the dust scattering the light.
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🧵2/2.....
Any photos?
Yes.
The lander/rover cameras are optimised for use in daylight. Why build a more complex, more sensitive tracking camera, to take night images, when there is no important scientific need. The images taken would be same as from Earth, or from space telescopes. A waste of mass/money/time.
There are a small handful of star images taken by the landers & rovers. A couple below.
Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech.
NASA/JPL-Caltech / Cornell / ASU
Sources:
space.com/mars-insight-m…
planetary.org/space-images/s…
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Amazing Astronomy retweeted
Jun 6
There is a lot going on right now on the @Space_Station, but fortunately we are all safe and witnessed a spectacular southern aurora show yesterday thanks to a recent solar event.
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Are all craters on Moon circular?
No.
There are oval/long craters, but not many. The impact speed creates a massive explosion the instant it hits, which creates a crater some 20x size of the asteroid. This obliterates any crater that would form from its size & direction alone.
Image: Messier Crater/NASA
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✨ The Eclipse That Started a Journey to the Stars
At just 26 years old, Willie Stickley turned a passion for photography into a passion for the cosmos after witnessing the 2024 Total Solar Eclipse.
Take a look at what he's captured.
Credit: Willie Stickley
#ZWO #Astrophotography #Astronomy #NightSky #DeepSky #Space
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Amazing Astronomy retweeted
Jupiter and Venus over the lake.
June 06, 2026
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Amazing Astronomy retweeted
21 Sep 2025
Todays partial solar eclipse.
Luckily the clouds stayed away until after maximum eclipse.
From South Canterbury, New Zealand
Lunt LS80tha and Grasshopper 3 camera
#Eclipse
ALT Partial solar eclipse, 70% of the left top of the sun is covered by the moon
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Jun 7
The True Color of Pluto.
This is the most accurate natural color image of Pluto taken by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft in 2015.
As would be seen by eye rather than the red/white/blue colorized IR image often posted without context by disinformation accounts 😄.
Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute.
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An almost final look at Saturn taken by NASA Cassini spacecraft as it prepared to end its mission by diving into Saturn in 2017. Image: NASA, JPL-Caltech, Space Science Inst., M. Macijauskas
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The south polar region of Saturn's Moon Enceladus taken during its closest ever dive past the active south polar region. The image was taken in visible light with the spacecraft’s wide-angle camera. The view was acquired at a distance of just 77 miles (124 km). Scale bar – 1 km. Image credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / Space Science Institute.
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Amazing Astronomy retweeted
May 22
Our Noctis-1 sensor is fully operational & monitoring satellites in orbit
We have published images taken this year by Noctis-1. This shows a @Starlink satellite in Low Earth Orbit, against a background of the Pinwheel Galaxy - 25 million light years away
gov.uk/government/news/new-s…
ALT A Starlink satellite in Low Earth Orbit, against a background of the distant Pinwheel Galaxy.
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The Sombrero galaxy. (M104) by NASA Hubble telescope.
(Original unedited color )
📷NASA and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)
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May 16
New Image of Volcanic Exoplanet JWST-I.LIE !!
NO!
Of course not.
We currently don't have any telescope that can resolve the surface features of an Exoplanet.
But it's amazing how many posts on disinformation accounts publish rubbish like this, with no clarification that its a random or vague guess as what it May look like.
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US Space Hardware Today and Tomirrow!
New York Mirror Magazine, 1963
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May 14
Every now and again take time to look up at the Night Sky.
Credit: Jack Kirby / Joe Sinnott
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