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Stargazing Dreams "To the people who look at the stars & wish. To the stars who listen and the dreams that are answered." Ad Astra, Per Aspera 🌠🌌✨️🌟

FULL MOON April 1, 2026. Photo taken by our skywatcher astrophotographer Mr. Roland Roman Roldan
03/04/2026

FULL MOON April 1, 2026. Photo taken by our skywatcher astrophotographer Mr. Roland Roman Roldan







Good morning, world! 🌎We have spectacular new high-resolution images of our home planet, all of us looking back through ...
03/04/2026

Good morning, world! 🌎

We have spectacular new high-resolution images of our home planet, all of us looking back through the Orion capsule window at our NASA Artemis II astronauts as they continue their journey to the Moon. That's us, together.

In the first image, Earth peeks through the capsule window, reminding us that a view like this relies on the ingenuity and hard work of countless people back home.

In the second image, we see our home planet as a whole, lit up in spectacular blues and browns. A green aurora even lights up the atmosphere.

We’ve all seen a crescent Moon. But very few people have ever seen a crescent Earth. This was the Artemis II crew’s view...
03/04/2026

We’ve all seen a crescent Moon. But very few people have ever seen a crescent Earth. This was the Artemis II crew’s view from 41,756 miles up.

High detail Widefield Milkyway taken with a Phone - Lucas Gonçalves (Xiaomi 12)
03/04/2026

High detail Widefield Milkyway taken with a Phone - Lucas Gonçalves (Xiaomi 12)

NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory's eyes are open 👁️From Cerro Pachón in Chile, Rubin Observatory is ready for the night...
03/04/2026

NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory's eyes are open 👁️

From Cerro Pachón in Chile, Rubin Observatory is ready for the night.

That open dome means the telescope is in action with its mighty eye! Rubin uses its 3200-megapixel LSST Camera, the largest digital camera ever built at about the size of an SUV vehicle 🚗(yes, really), to scan the entire southern sky.

What makes Rubin special? It isn’t just the size, it’s what it can see. Extremely faint objects that don't emit or reflect much light, like ultra diffuse galaxies. By studying them, scientists can test theories of dark matter, uncover clues about how galaxies grow and interact, and explore the leftovers of cosmic collisions.

📷 NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory/NOIRLab/SLAC/AURA/H. Stockebrand

Webb and Hubble: IC 5332Explanation: What does the universe look like through infrared goggles? Our eyes can only see vi...
01/03/2026

Webb and Hubble: IC 5332

Explanation: What does the universe look like through infrared goggles? Our eyes can only see visible light, but astronomers want to see more. Today’s APOD shows spiral galaxy IC 5332 as seen by two NASA telescopes: Webb in mid-infrared and Hubble in ultraviolet and visible light. To toggle between the two space-based views just slide your cursor over the image (or follow this link). The Hubble image highlights the spiral arms of the galaxy separated by dark regions, whereas the Webb image reveals a finer, more tangled structure. Interstellar dust scatters and absorbs light from the stars in the galaxy, causing the dark dust lanes in the Hubble image, and then emits heat in infrared light, so dust glows in this Webb image. The Mid-InfraRed Instrument on Webb needs to operate at a chilling temperature of -266ºC (or - 447ºF), otherwise it would detect infrared radiation from the telescope itself. Combining these observations, astronomers connect the “small scale” of gas and stars to the truly large scale of galactic structure and evolution.

Image Credit: ESA/Webb, NASA, CSA, J. Lee and the PHANGS-JWST and PHANGS-HST Teams
Text: Cecilia Chirenti (NASA GSFC, UMCP, CRESST II)

Centaurus A is the fifth brightest galaxy in the sky -- making it an ideal target for amateur astronomers -- and is famo...
01/03/2026

Centaurus A is the fifth brightest galaxy in the sky -- making it an ideal target for amateur astronomers -- and is famous for the dust lane across its middle and a giant jet blasting away from the supermassive black hole at its center. Cen A is an active galaxy about 12 million light years from Earth. This 2014 X-ray image comes from a collaboration that combines data from amateur astronomers with data from mission archives of the NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory.

Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO; Optical: Rolf Olsen; Infrared: NASA/JPL-Caltech

One is an infrared image of the star-forming region known as W39 from our retired WISE (Wide-Field Infrared Explorer) an...
01/03/2026

One is an infrared image of the star-forming region known as W39 from our retired WISE (Wide-Field Infrared Explorer) and Spitzer space telescopes. In the center is a giant bubble that has been carved out of cosmic dust by massive stars. As bubbles like this push outward, they can trigger further star formation, including massive stars that can blow their own smaller bubbles within the larger bubble! Two such smaller bubbles can be seen here in yellow on the rim of the larger bubble.

Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Wisconsin

Image description: The W39 star-forming region appears in shades of green, red, and yellow on a black starry background. A rough egg shape dominates the center of the image, outlined by red clouds that are thick on the top and sides but barely visible along the bottom. Surrounding this is a line of yellow and green clouds that just hug the red oval on the left but then widen out to fill the image on the right. Several bright white and red spots dot the image, with two prominent ones lying on the edge of the large red oval.

01/03/2026

AI has revealed 800 never-seen-before cosmic anomalies 🌌

Our researchers developed an AI tool that allows them to inspect millions of astronomical images in a fraction of the time it would take a human.

They developed what’s called a neural network, an AI tool that uses computers to process data and search for patterns in a way that is inspired by the human brain. Their neural network, is trained to search for and recognise rare objects like jellyfish galaxies and gravitational arcs.
The team trained their tool and demonstrated its capabilities using the Hubble Legacy Archive. They sifted through nearly 100 million image cutouts in just two and a half days, uncovering nearly 1400 anomalous objects, more than 800 of which had never been documented before.

Most of the anomalies were galaxies in the process of merging or interacting, taking on unusual shapes or trailing long tails of stars and gas. Many others were gravitational lenses, in which the gravity of a foreground galaxy bends spacetime and warps the light from a distant background galaxy into a circle or arc.

The team also discovered examples of several other rare objects such as galaxies with huge clumps of stars, jellyfish galaxies with gaseous ‘tentacles’, and planet-forming disks seen edge-on, giving them a hamburger-like or butterfly-like appearance. Perhaps most intriguing of all, there were several dozen objects that defied classification altogether.

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🎞️/📸 ESA/, D. O’Ryan, P. Gómez (European Space Agency), M. Zamani (ESA/Hubble) by 4.0 INT

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