Astronomy and Space

08/04/2024

Watch live: The 2024 total solar eclipse🌑

05/03/2024

The Eagle Nebula

This soaring tower is 9.5 light-years or about 90 trillion kilometers high!

Credit: NASA, ESA, and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)

26/02/2024

26/02/2024

The closest picture ever taken of planet Mercury.
Photo credit: NASA

26/02/2024

Mars has gigantic volcanoes, bigger than those found on Earth. But Mars lacks the kind of plate tectonics that drives earthly volcanoes. So what caused the volcanoes on Mars? How did they form? 🌋🔴
It seems that vertical tectonics might have driven Mars' volcanoes. In other words, instead of a sideways movement of land plates as on Earth, Mars' crust might have undergone an up-and-down movement (uplift and subsidence). The work suggests that Martian volcanoes were more diverse than scientists once thought.
📸 China’s Tianwen-1 orbiter captured this view of the mighty Olympus Mons volcano on Mars on December 30, 2021. Clouds of water ice crystals, just like clouds on Earth, circle the volcano’s summit. Image via CNSA/ CLEP/ PEC/ MoRIC/ Andrea Luck.

24/02/2024

February’s Full Snow Moon rises tonight, the smallest full moon of 2024

The full moon will appear a bit more petite in the sky tonight as the smallest full moon of 2024 rises. February’s Full Snow Moon will occur while the moon approaches its farthest point from …

23/02/2024

Where Space begins

22/02/2024

Breaking: Strong Solar💥 Flare Erupts from Sun

The Sun emitted a strong solar flare, peaking at 5:34 p.m. EST on Feb. 22, 2024. NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, which watches the Sun constantly, captured an image of the event. Solar flares ar…

22/02/2024

The X6.3 flare was the largest of the three X-class flares that occurred in the past 24 hours.

22/02/2024

View of Ireland as seen from the ISS!

20/02/2024

Astronomers have discovered the brightest object in the universe. Quasar J0529-4351 is 500 trillion times brighter than the Sun.

20/02/2024

Pluto as captured by the New Horizon spacecraft

16/02/2024

A beautiful timelapse of the CME associated with the X2.5 solar flare.
GIF courtesy of Space Science and Engineering Center University of Wisconsin-Madison

15/02/2024

Beautiful northern lightsfimed by Air Portuagl pilots on a night flight between San Francisco to Lisbon.

[📹bestairplaneseat]

14/02/2024

The closest image ever taken of Jupiter.
courtesy: NASA

14/02/2024

Earth for scale.

14/02/2024

Southern Europe seen from the ISS

12/02/2024

The Andromeda Galaxy is truly the greatest galaxy. You can imagine how huge this legendary galaxy is.

10/02/2024

The line between Day and Night as seen from Space.

08/02/2024

Helix Nebula by Hubble

07/02/2024

In this striking image, lenticular clouds roll dramatically over the crater of Villarica Volcano in Chile. The photo, captured by Francisco Negroni, earned him the prestigious title of "Weather Photographer of the Year 2023."

Image Credit: Francisco Negroni

06/02/2024

This is what sunset looks like from space.

📽: ESA/NASA

06/02/2024

Rusty Red Waters in Madagascar
This image, taken by an astronaut on the International Space Station, shows the reddish-brown waters of the Betsiboka River Delta in Madagascar. The color is caused by the transport of iron-rich sediment.

Image Credit: NASA

05/02/2024

It took 10 years for the photographer Marcella Julia Pace to capture these 48 colours of the Moon 😍

04/02/2024

Spiral Galaxy NGC 6744

NGC 6744 is a spiral galaxy located in the constellation Pavo (the Peacock) in the southern sky. It is often referred to as the Milky Way’s twin because of its similarity in structure and app…

04/02/2024

One of the best solar eclipse compositions I've ever seen! 🌙

04/02/2024

Night skiing in Norway
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03/02/2024

Pluto in True Colour

03/02/2024

Devils Horns 🌓

02/02/2024

NASA releases new image of the Moon, taken from International Space Space.