Cone Nebula

Spanning about 12 light-years, the Crab Nebula is 6,500 light-years away in the constellation Taurus.⠀

The most spaceporn food (by @naturally.jo) [1080x1080] by earthmoonsun

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Jupiter and three moons by glowworm6a Via Flickr: We were at Lower Goose Lake, Columbia WLR taking night photos, and I could see Jupiter real clear and I wondered if I could take a photo of it. Now usually you use a tracking head to keep the camera and lens on Jupiter but I didn’t have a tracking head. So I set up my 600mm and put a 1.7 extender and started shooting. I set my shutter at 1/800 sec and my fstop to f/6.3. I started at ISO 6400 and kept going up, well at ISO 81,275 I got this photo. Pretty good with out a tracking head. 07/13/2019

Murican Nebula by ktflory

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Capturing the Milky Way at Joshua Tree [OC] [4819 x 3855] by dahhello

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What glows there? The answer depends: sea or sky? In the sea, the unusual blue glow is bioluminescence. Specifically, the glimmer arises from Noctiluca scintillans, single-celled plankton stimulated by the lapping waves.

The plankton use their glow to startle and illuminate predators. This mid-February display on an island in the Maldives was so intense that the astrophotographer described it as a turquoise wonderland.

In the sky, by contrast, are the more familiar glows of stars and nebulas. The white band rising from the artificially-illuminated green plants is created by billions of stars in the central disk of our Milky Way Galaxy.

Also visible in the sky is the star cluster Omega Centauri, toward the left, and the famous Southern Cross asterism in the center.

Red-glowing nebulas include the bright Carina Nebula, just right of center, and the expansive Gum Nebula on the upper right.

📷: Petr Horálek / Institute of Physics in Opava, Sovena Jani

Milky Way, As Seen from Germany 14.10.18 by BlindGamerYT

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Stellar Armory Pins

Atelier Persephone on Etsy

The Day the Dinosaurs Died

A young paleontologist may have discovered a record of the most significant event in the history of life on Earth.

hey, @bunjywunjy - this might be your jam (and any other dinosaur enthusiasts, it’s a heck of a read)