In this infrared image of M66 from the Spitzer Infrared Nearby Galaxy Survey (SINGS), we see a stark contrast between the blue core and bar with a concentration of blue older stars, and the pink bar ends and spiral arms that show dust heated by actively forming stars.
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Since its launch in 2011 until this year, when it is being returned to Earth, NASA's NEOWISE mission detected more than 3000 objects with the potential to collide with our home planet.
The planetary defence mission will be replaced by an improved system in 2027, which leaves us wondering what happens for the next three years without asteroid monitoring.
The King of Wings, a hoodoo in New Mexico, forms from hard rock over softer eroding layers. Planning its night-sky photoshoot took a year, balancing artificial foreground lighting with the Milky Way's natural glow. The final image was captured in May 2016.
The k’niPatn k’l⌣ stk’masqt outrigger (KKO) telescope.
The site is on the traditional territory of the #Similamix People in #BritishColumbia. The Upper #Similkameen#Indian Band offered the name, which means “a listening device for outer space”.
On a cold winter day, it aims for the sun and warms himself with its gentle warmth.
The sun isn't always strong enough to warm our lives, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't try to catch every single ray that life offers.
Tech detail: Photo taken with the Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra. I've taken similar ones with the iPhone 13 Pro Max and the Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra. The significant difference is that with the other two devices, the bokeh around the flower was noticeably off, blurring even the petals. The S24 seems to do a significantly better job.
Today's #Hubble favorite is M51. It's a pair of two interacting galaxies, NGC 5194, the Whirlpool Galaxy, and its companion galaxy NGC 5195. The image was taken to celebrate Hubble's 15th anniversary in 2005.
The Whirlpool Galaxy is a grand design spiral. Its arms may be so prominent because of a series of close encounters with NGC 5195, the small, yellowish galaxy behind the outermost tip of one of its arms.
Has anyone been successful setting up their #Samsung#Android phone to use a private #DNS like that provided by dns.hostux.net? I can set my firefox app to, but the setting for the whole device just gives me errors and then nothing can access the internet. #Hostux#Galaxy A51 #foss4g@valere
Look, the Very Large #Telescope has imaged a cosmic #flower! 🌼 The blue "petals" are actually multiple images of the same object, a distant #galaxy seen when the #universe was only 20% of its current age. Light rays from this faraway galaxy were bent by the gravity of a foreground galaxy (the orange one at the centre) creating separate images of the distant source – a so-called Einstein Cross.
ESA just released some beautiful #JWST images of M51, the Whirlpool Galaxy.
In the near-infrared image, dark red features trace the filamentary warm dust, while colors of red, orange, and yellow show gas ionized by recently formed star clusters.
In the mid-infrared image, dust grains and molecules glow, heated by starlight. Empty cavities and bright filaments alternate, giving the impression of ripples propagating from the spiral arms.