SteamPlantSpo
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Apr 30
Happy National Astronomy Day! 🌌✨ From twinkling stars to distant galaxies, let's celebrate the beauty and mysteries of the universe together. Join us in exploring the endless possibilities of the night sky!

#AstronomyDay #Stargazing #restaurant #spokane

Next on #AstronomyDay is this strange looking lenticular galaxy NGC 4753 by #Hubble.

Those are dust lanes twisting around the galactic nucleus and are likely the result of a merger with a dwarf galaxy about 1.3 billion years ago.

The gas and dust in the galactic disk got twisted by "differential precession" and are seen as the complex shapes seen edge-on from earth.

Most of the unseen mass in the galaxy lies in a slightly flattened, spherical halo of dark matter.

https://science.nasa.gov/missions/hubble/hubble-views-cosmic-dust-lanes/
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Let's celebrate #AstronomyDay with this image taken today by Mars rover Perseverance's SHERLOC Autofocus and Context Imager (ACI).

This is the first such image of a rock sample since Dec 16, 2023, when the dust cover of the camera and laser spectroscopy instrument got stuck. It is still stuck, but in an open position and its auto-focus mechanism is nonoperational.

The camera took a sequence of images from different distances; the middle ones are in focus.

🎉
https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/multimedia/raw-images/
#Mars
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Exploring the cosmos one leap at a time! Happy Astronaut Day to the dreamers and stargazers!

#internationalastronomyday #astronomy #stargazing #astronomyday #like #planets #vocabulary #planetsinenglish #livestreamingapp #livestreaming #livestreamingnow #live #livestream #streaminglive #livestreamingvideo #nowstreaming

What a weekend! Yesterday #AstronomyDay and today #InternationalJazzDay
Tomorrow isn't so ordinary either, it's #Mayday 😆

Happy International Astronomy Day!
Pictured: Conjunction of Moon, Venus, and Mercury the evening of March 3, 2018.
Photo by James Guilford.

#astronomy #astronomyday #internationalastronomyday

Happy spring astronomy day! These are planets for a mobile that my wife made. *Not to scale.

#astronomy #astronomyday #springastronomyday #planets

#Jupiter zum #Astronomietag, aber leider bei schlechtem Seeing.

Jupiter for the #Astronomyday but under unfavorable seeing conditions.
https://www.astropage.eu/wp-content/gallery/jupiter/jupiter01102022_lab.jpg

#Astrofotografie #Astrophotography #Planet #Amateurastronomy #Amateurastronomie #Planetenfotografie #planetaryimaging

WAS WIR hier machen
..
(mit einiger unverständlicher Behinderung durch teils deutlich
UNWISSENDE)

Astronomie & Co zu Menschen bringen
..
macht auch
#AstronomieTag
#AstronomyDay
(VA gibt es wohl seit 1973)
Quelle
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astronomietag GER AT CH ..

In honour of Int'l #astronomyday, here's an image I've not put out there before:
NGC 3718 from 3rd April

A strikingly pretty & often overlooked galaxy below the big dipper.
Also visible - Hickson 56 galaxy cluster.

🔭Esprit 150
📷QHY128C
⏲️37x5min (3hr 5m)

#nlastro

Saturday May 7th is International Astronomy Day.
https://earthsky.org/space/international-astronomy-day/

Check out your local astronomy club for possible public outreach activities. In Canada, that would be a #rasc centre such as #rascNL
:
http://stjohnsrasc.ca/astroday/astroday-promo-intl.shtml

#astronomyday
#nlastro