#HubbleAndChandra spot a free-roaming black hole: https://zorz.it/ZpNHK

#SoumyadeepMukherjee #SpacePhotography #roaming #BlackHole #CosmicWilderness #NASAObservatories #HubbleSpaceTelescope #CosmicNomads

Look up to the sky…

Our first capture of the Pelican Nebula (IC 5070), an emission nebula in Cygnus. It stretches roughly 10 light-years and glows as young, hot stars energize surrounding hydrogen gas. Its shape resembles a pelican’s head and neck—can you see it?

#astrophotography #lookup #bbcamping #connectwithnature #pelicannebula #CampingInPortugal #deepsky #cosmos #nightphotography #spacephotography #stargazing #nightsky #astronomy r #milkyway #seestar #onewithnaure #Alentejo

Weil ich heute schon den ganzen Tag diese Musik höre, noch ein paar Fotos vom wunderschönen #Jupiter... Die physikalischen und chemischen Prozesse, die diese tollen Wirbel und Strukturen verursachen sind auch super spannend.... Ich sollte mir noch mal das Buch dazu aus meinem Regal kramen...

#spacephotography

Sea Lake Astro Fest: A Deep-Space Side Quest

Sea Lake Astro Fest 2025 turned into one of those deep-space side quests that takes over your whole weekend in the best way possible.

I was lucky enough to help out again this year, MC’ing the talks, running the science Q&A panel, hosting the pub quiz, and volunteering at the Lake Tyrrell public viewing night.

But the real highlight wasn’t the microphone or the schedule, it was watching people experience the night sky together. The curiosity, the first-time telescope reactions, the quiet “wow” moments… that’s what this festival is all about.

Somewhere in between all that, I squeezed in a final astrophotography session with Krista before she headed back to America, one last night of star chasing together after years of shared sky adventures.

Sea Lake Astro Fest isn’t about any one person. It’s about sharing the universe with anyone who shows up with a sense of wonder.

And this year delivered that and more.

#SeaLakeAstroFest #AstroFest #Astrophotography #Stars #NightSky #MilkyWay #DeepSky #DeepSpace #Astronomy #SpacePhotography #AstroPhotography #AstroCommunity #Cosmos #Galaxies #ScienceFestival #ScienceCommunication #STEM #SciComm #SpaceNerd #SpaceLovers #Telescopes #Stargazing #Nebula #AstroLife #ExploreTheUniverse #UniverseToday #Skywatching

https://youtu.be/rFDSStg4mY8

Once again an amateur astronomer offers better photo than all the space agencies with all their probes.

🚨: 3I/ATLAS Just Broke Every Rule of Comet Physics — Again

Mitsunori Tsumura has once again captured an extraordinary view of 3I/ATLAS. Though the observation was made on November 22, the image was only released a few hours ago.

🔴 NON-COMET-LIKE ANOMALIES VISIBLE IN THIS IMAGE:

1. The ion/dust tail is extremely thin and sharply collimated

Unlike typical comets whose tails broaden with distance, this one stays unusually narrow, rigid, and linear, almost like a beam instead of a dust plume. This level of tail narrowness doesn’t match how normal comet dust or gas spreads out under sunlight or the solar wind.

2. No detectable curvature in the tail

Most comet tails curve due to the orbital motion relative to the solar wind flow. Here, the tail is almost perfectly straight, showing no curvature, which is highly atypical.

3. Tail brightness is inconsistent with coma brightness

The coma is bright and extended, but the tail fades in an unexpected, abrupt falloff, not a smooth logarithmic fade typical of dust scattering. This suggests the tail may not be composed of normal dust grains.

4. The coma shows an unusually symmetric, almost spherical core

Natural cometary comae typically show anisotropic jets or asymmetry due to irregular nucleus outgassing.
This one has a nearly perfect central glow with atypical smoothness — almost like a controlled emission, not chaotic sublimation.

5. A faint, extremely long secondary filament is visible parallel to the main tail

Instead of a dust + ion tail separation, it looks more like a second ray-like structure, extremely subtle but linear. The angular difference between the structures is too small for normal dual-tail physics.

6. The inner condensation is too compact

The nucleus region is star-like rather than fuzzy. That level of central concentration is more point-source-like than expected for a dusty, unresolved comet nucleus.

7. No visible debris clumps, striations, or tail “textures”

Dust tails normally show striations, clumps, streamers, or brightness knots. This tail is unnaturally smooth, uniform, and textureless.

One thing is clear: 3I/ATLAS is not behaving like anything we’ve seen entering our solar system. And this new image raises more questions than answers.

Via @forallcurious

#3iatlas "#comet" #aliens #space #SpacePhotography

Clearest Photo Yet of 3I/ATLAS Taken by Canadian Astrophotographer
https://atlas.whatip.xyz/post.php?slug=clearest-photo-yet-of-3iatlas-taken-by-canadian-astrophotographer
Breaking: In a captivating display of astronomical prowess
#spacephotography #astronomicalwonders #cosmicwanderer

M82 - Cigar Galaxy.
ZWO Seestar S50.
250mm, f5, 1888 exposures of 10’’.
#telescope #telescopes #zwo #zwoasi #zwoseestar #zwoseestars50 #seestar #seestars50 #astro #astrophoto #astrophotos #astrophotography #astrophotographer #spacephotography #astronomy #spaceexploration #nasa #universe #space #deepsky #deepsky #deepspace #galaxy #galaxies #cigar #cigargalaxy #m82 #messier82 #messier #ngc3034

NASA's $30 Billion Image Of 3I/ATLAS Out-Blurred By Amateur's Backyard Telescope
https://atlas.whatip.xyz/post.php?slug=nasas-30-billion-image-of-3iatlas-out-blurred-by-amateurs-backyard-telescope
"Backyard vs. Billion: Cosmic Clash Over Comet Image Sparks Controversy!"
#spacephotography #cosmicwonders #amateurvsprofessional

Hubble reveals the strange afterlife of a zombie star - Earth.com
https://www.earth.com/image/hubble-reveals-the-strange-afterlife-of-a-zombie-star/

#imageoftheday #hubble #EuropeanSpaceAgency #space #photography #SpacePhotography #eridanus

A very quick and dirty first test with my new Seestar S30, with only 20 minutes on target.
ZWO Seestar S30.
150mm, f5, 118 exposures of 10’’.
#telescope #telescopes #zwo #zwoasi #zwoseestar #zwoseestars30 #seestar #seestars30 #astro #astrophoto #astrophotos #astrophotography #astrophotographer #spacephotography #astronomy #spaceexploration #nasa #universe #space #deepsky #deepspace #galaxy #galaxies #andromeda #andromedagalaxy #m31 #messier31 #messier

After a 1.7 billion‑mile trek, Juno’s camera is sending back some of the most stunning Jupiter shots yet. The raw files are public, so hobbyists can crop, recolor, or stitch them into new views. It’s a real‑world invitation to do space art and science together 🌌🚀 Anyone been playing with JunoCam data? #Jupiter #JunoCam #CitizenScience #SpacePhotography

https://www.popsci.com/science/jupiter-stuns-in-new-images/

These photos are insane. They look fake, but are 100% genuine.

The photographer, Andrew McCarthy, lined up this shot out in the desert and shared other stills and videos of the process on imginn: https://imginn.com/p/DRBAaqLkvye/

I came across this on a space subreddit shared by the artist.

#space #SpacePhotography #Photography

And to cheerfully contradict myself, the Earth does move a little in the moon's sky, because of the moon's libration - its speed in its elliptical orbit varies but its rotational speed on its own axis doesn't.

Thus from a few locations on the moon you *would* get an earthrise - but a very slow one over the course of a year..

This video shows how much the earth moves in the moon's sky over a year.

https://youtu.be/2TbzOpV_t6Q

#Moon #Physics #Space #SpacePhotography

The famous photo 'earthrise' is a bit misleading - the title at least. An inhabitant of the moon wouldn't see the Earth move in the sky significantly, because the moon is tidally locked to the Earth. It was only an earthrise when seen from an orbiting spacecraft.

Tidal locking occurs when one body is deformed gravitationally by another. In this case the water of Earth's oceans is pulled by the moon. It is possible for both bodies to be tidally locked - Pluto and Charon are like this and thus fixed in each other's sky.

I don't know if it is possible for only the larger body to be tidally locked to its orbiting companion but I don't see why not. The moon would need to be more deformable than the planet I think.

#Moon #Physics #Space #SpacePhotography

Had some energy left last night and managed to get about 300 shots of the moon, 8 of which made it into the final stacked image.

I'm still happy about it, since the day before and today it's really cloudy. 🥳

8x 1/320s, ISO125, 600mm, f/6.3

Edited in #gimp

#canon #canoneos60d #eos60d #astro #astrophoto #astrophotos #astrophotography #astrophotographer #spacephotography #astronomy #spaceexploration #universe #space #solarsystem #moon #lunar #moonlovers #moonphoto #moonphotography