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  1. Dafür dass ich so gar keine Ahnung von dem Thema habe, als Frist blood / erste "alles Auto" Aufnahme bin ich schon begeistert #m31 #smarttelescope #dwarf3

  2. Here is the next image for the Dwarf Mini - #M110 #Galaxy / #M31 #TheAndromedaGalaxy / #M32 Galaxy. Last of the long duration observation for the Dwarf Mini. #dwarflabs #dwarfmini #space #astronomy #amateur

  3. #M31 #Andromeda from the backyard, 2.5 million light-years out. Squeezed 37 mins of clean broadband data between passing clouds, heavy dew, and yard sprinkler timers. Dust lanes and companion galaxies M32 & M110 resolved nicely.

    222 x 10s

    #Astrophotography #Space #Galaxy

  4. #QuickAndDirty #FirstLight of my new #astronomy equipment last night. A series of single pictures stitched together and stacked. Altogether 4 minutes of capturing in non-ideal evironment (edge of a city with lots of interfering light). Nonetheless ... I never had a better photo of this.
    #M31 #Andromeda #Galaxy
    #ErstesLicht #Galaxie

  5. APOD: 2026 June 17 – Longmore 8: The Hamster Wheel Nebula

    APOD: 2026 June 17 – Longmore 8: The Hamster Wheel Nebula Discover the cosmos! Each day a different…
    #NewsBeep #News #Space #Andromeda #galaxy #M31 #Science #UK #UnitedKingdom
    newsbeep.com/uk/643179/

  6. 31.03.2012 In #Frankfurt kesselt die Polizei hunderte #M31 Demonstrierende. Der Kessel wird später für rechtswidrig erklärt und die Polizei Frankfurt muss bis zu 750 Euro Schmerzensgeld pro Person zahlen, insgesamt über 100.000 Euro. #PreviousPosting

  7. 31.03.12: In Frankfurt am Main rockt der europäische Aktionstag gegen Kapitalismus. #M31 Videozusammenfassung des ereignisreichen Tages: vimeo.com/39575124

  8. The star that vanished: Andromeda’s Black Hole Mystery The star that vanished, M31-2014-DS1, represents a rare cosmic event where a massive star bypassed a supernova explosion to collapse directl...

    #Research #Astronomy #BlackHole #JWST #ScienceNews #StellarEvolution #Supernova #Andromeda #M31

    Origin | Interest | Match
  9. Supergiant Star Collapsed into Stellar-Mass Black Hole in Andromeda Galaxy

    Using archival data from NASA’s NEOWISE mission along with data from other space and ground-based observatories, astronomers identified…
    #NewsBeep #News #Space #andromedagalaxy #AU #Australia #Blackhole #ESA #hubble #IR #M31 #M31-2014-DS1 #Messier31 #NASA #Neowise #NGC6946-BH1 #Science #star #Stellar-massblackhole #Supergiantstar
    newsbeep.com/au/480219/

  10. Good Saturday morning. Yesterday was a pretty busy morning, so forgot to share the images that were taking that morning. Starting from top to bottom - #M110 #Galaxy / #M31 #TheAndromedaGalaxy / #M32 Galaxy. #seestar #S50 #space #astronomy #amateur

  11. Weekly Update from the Open Journal of Astrophysics – 17/01/2026

    It’s Saturday once more so time for another update of activity at the Open Journal of Astrophysics. Since the last update we have published seven papers, bringing the number in Volume 9 (2026) to 11 and the total so far published by OJAp up to 459. This week has been quite busy; for only the second time in recorded history we published at least one paper each working day.

    I will continue to include the announcements made on our Mastodon account (on Fediscience) to encourage you to visit it. Mastodon is a really excellent service, and a more than adequate replacement for X/Twitter which nobody should be using.

    The first three papers this week were all published on Monday January 12th in the folder Astrophysics of Galaxies.

    The first paper to report this week is “Rotational Kinematics in the Globular Cluster System of M31: Insights from Bayesian Inference” by Yuan (Cher) Li & Brendon J. Brewer (U. Auckland, New Zealand), Geraint F. Lewis (U. Sydney, Australia) and Dougal Mackey (independent researcher, Australia). This study uses Bayesian modelling to explore the kinematics of globular clusters in the Andromeda Galaxy, revealing distinct rotation patterns that suggest different subgroups were added at separate times.

    The overlay is here:

    You can find the officially accepted version on arXiv here and the announcement on Fediverse here:

    https://fediscience.org/@OJ_Astro/115881522738421378

    The second paper is “DESI Data Release 1: Stellar Catalogue” by Sergey Koposov (U. Edinburgh, UK) and an international cast of 67 other authors. This paper introduces and describes the stellar Value-Added Catalogue (VAC) based on DESI Data Release 1, providing measurements for over 4 million stars, including radial velocity, abundance, and stellar parameters.

    The overlay for this one is here:

    The official version of the paper can be found on arXiv here and the Fediverse announcement here:

    https://fediscience.org/@OJ_Astro/115881586884465975

    Next we have “On the origins of oxygen: ALMA and JWST characterise the multi-phase, metal-enriched, star-bursting medium within a ‘normal’ z>11 galaxy” by Joris Witstok (Cosmic Dawn Centre, Copenhagen, Denmark) and 37 others in locations dotted around the world. This paper presents new ALMA observations of the JADES-GS-z11-0 galaxy confirm the presence of the [O III] 88 µm line, suggesting it consists of two low-mass components undergoing star formation and enriched in metals.

    The overlay is here:

    The official version can be found on arXiv here and the Fediverse announcement is here:

    https://fediscience.org/@OJ_Astro/115881659633273777

    The fourth paper this week is also in the folder Astrophysics of Galaxies. but was published on Tuesday 13th January. It is entitled “Accelerated calibration of semi-analytic galaxy formation models” by Andrew Robertson and Andrew Benson (Carnegie Observatories, USA). This paper presents a faster calibration framework for galaxy formation models, using fewer simulations for each evaluation. However, the model shows discrepancies suggesting the model needs to be made more flexible.

    The overlay is here:

    You can find the officially accepted version on arXiv here and the Mastodon announcement here:

    https://fediscience.org/@OJ_Astro/115887131054018297

    Next one up, published on Wednesday 14th January in the folder Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics, is “Constraints from CMB lensing tomography with projected bispectra” by Lea Harscouet & David Alonso (U. Oxford), UK), Andrina Nicola (U. Manchester, UK) and Anže Slosar (Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA). This study presents angular power spectra and bispectra of DESI luminous red galaxies, finding that the galaxy bispectrum can constrain the amplitude of matter fluctuations and the non-relativistic matter fraction. The overlay is here:

    You can find the officially accepted paper on arXiv here and the Mastodon announcement here:

    https://fediscience.org/@OJ_Astro/115893813149036197

    The sixth paper this week is “Universal numerical convergence criteria for subhalo tidal evolution” by Barry T. Chiang & Frank C. van den Bosch (Yale U., USA) and Hsi-Yu Schive (National Taiwan University, Taiwan). This was published on Thursday 15th January in the folder Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics; it presents an analysis of a simulation suite that addresses the ‘overmerging’ problem in cosmological simulations of dark matter subhalos, showing that up to 50% of halos in state-of-the art simulations are unresolved. The overlay is here:

    The final accepted version of this paper can be found on arXiv here. The Mastodon announcement follows:

    https://fediscience.org/@OJ_Astro/115898339098021093

    Finally for this week we have “Detectability of dark matter subhalo impacts in Milky Way stellar streams” by Junyang Lu , Tongyan Lin & Mukul Sholapurkar (UCSD, USA) and Ana Bonaca (Carnegie Observatories, USA). This was published on Friday 16th January (i.e. yesterday) in the folder Astrophysics of Galaxies. The study develops a method to estimate the minimum detectable dark matter subhalo mass in stellar streams, ranking them by sensitivity and identifying promising lines for further research.

    The overlay is here:

    The officially accepted version can be found on arXiv here and the Fediverse announcement here:

    https://fediscience.org/@OJ_Astro/115904083514716420

    That concludes the update for this week. I will do another next Saturday.

    #ALMA #arXiv250207781v3 #arXiv250514787v3 #arXiv250707968v2 #arXiv250722888v4 #arXiv250900143v2 #arXiv251026901v2 #arXiv260105380v2 #AstrophysicsOfGalaxies #BayesianMethods #CosmologyAndNonGalacticAstrophysics #DarkEnergySurvey #darkMatter #DES #DiamondOpenAccess #DiamondOpenAccessPublishing #galaxyFormation #JWST #M31 #MilkyWay #OpenAccess #OpenAccessPublishing #OpenJournalOfAstrophysics #Oxygen #semiAnalyticModels #subhalos #TheOpenJournalOfAstrophysics #Tomography #weakGravitationalLensing

  12. Andromeda and Sprites over Australia

    What’s happening over that tree? Two very different things. On the left is the Andromeda galaxy, an object that is older than humanity and will last billions of years into the future. Andromeda (M31) is similar in size and shape to our own Milky Way Galaxy. On the right is a red sprite, a type of lightning that lasts a fraction of a second and occurs above violent thunderstorms.

    Image Credit & Copyright: JJ Rao

    #astrophotography
    #RedSprites
    #M31
    #APOD

  13. Apart from the moon, I also set the s50 to observe #M31 #TheAndromedaGalaxy. This is the last image of the evening as conditions are getting worst out there. #seestar #S50 #space #astronomy #amateur

  14. The battery ran out on the Odyssey Pro. Here is what I caught of #M31 #TheAndromedaGalaxy.

  15. Weekly Update from the Open Journal of Astrophysics – 15/11/2025

    It’s Saturday again, so it’s time for the usual update of the week’s new papers at the Open Journal of Astrophysics. It has been quite a busy week. Since the last update we have published another seven papers, which brings the number in Volume 8 (2025) up to 175, and the total so far published by OJAp up to 410.

    First on the menu for this week is “Dynamical friction and measurements of the splashback radius in galaxy clusters” by Talia M. O’Shea (U. Wisconsin-Madison, USA), Josh Borrow & Stephanie O’Neil (U. Pennsylvania, USA) and Mark Vogelsberger (MIT, USA). Published on Tuesday 11th November in the folder Cosmology and NonGalactic Astrophysics, this one presents a study suggesting that dynamical friction does not play a major role in reducing the radius of the splashback feature in real data compared to numerical simulations.

    The overlay is here:

    You can find the officially accepted version on arXiv here.

    The Fediverse announcement is here:

    Open Journal of Astrophysics

    @[email protected]

    New Publication at the Open Journal of Astrophysics: "Dynamical friction and measurements of the splashback radius in galaxy clusters" by Talia M. O'Shea (U. Wisconsin-Madison, USA), Josh Borrow & Stephanie O'Neil (U. Pennsylvania, USA) and Mark Vogelsberger (MIT, USA)

    doi.org/10.33232/001c.147125

    November 11, 2025, 8:36 am 3 boosts 1 favorites

     

    The second paper of the week is “Microlensing of lensed supernovae Zwicky & iPTF16geu: constraints on the lens galaxy mass slope and dark compact object fraction” by Nikki Arendse (Stockholm University, Sweden) and and international cast of 11 others based in Sweden, UK and France. This one was published on 11th November 2025 in the folder Astrophysics of Galaxies. It is about combining observations of two supernovae, iPTF16geu and SN Zwicky, with microlensing magnification maps to probe the properties of the lens galaxy.

    The overlay is here:

     

    You can find the official version of this one on arXiv here. The federated announcement on Mastodon is here:

    Open Journal of Astrophysics

    @[email protected]

    New Publication at the Open Journal of Astrophysics: "Microlensing of lensed supernovae Zwicky & iPTF16geu: constraints on the lens galaxy mass slope and dark compact object fraction" by Nikki Arendse (Stockholm University, Sweden) and 11 others based in Sweden, UK and France

    doi.org/10.33232/001c.147126

    November 11, 2025, 8:53 am 1 boosts 1 favorites

     

    Next one up is “Neutrino Constraints on Black Hole Formation in M31” by Yudai Sawa (U. Tokyo, Japan) and 11 others all based in Japan. This was published on Tuesday 11th November in the folder High-Energy Astrophysical Phenomena. It presents a calculation of the neutrino emission expected from the collapse of massive stars and its use in constraining black hole formation using neutrino detectors.

     

    The overlay is here:

    You can find the official accepted version on arXiv here. The fediverse announcement is here:

    Open Journal of Astrophysics

    @[email protected]

    New Publication at the Open Journal of Astrophysics: "Neutrino Constraints on Black Hole Formation in M31" by Yudai Sawa (U. Tokyo, Japan) and 11 others all based in Japan

    doi.org/10.33232/001c.147127

    November 11, 2025, 9:04 am 0 boosts 1 favorites

    The fourth paper this week is “Redshift Drift in Relativistic N-Body Simulations” by Alexander Oestreicher (U. Southern Denmark, DK), Chris Clarkson (QMUL, UK), Julian Adamek (U. Zürich, CH) and Sofie Marie Koksbang (U. Southern Denmark, DK). This one was published on Wednesday 12th November in the folder marked Cosmology and NonGalactic Astrophysics. It presents numerical calculations of the cosmological redshift drift effect for comparison with future surveys.

    The overlay is here:

     

     

    You can find the official published version on arXiv here. The Fediverse announcement follows:

    Open Journal of Astrophysics

    @[email protected]

    New Publication at the Open Journal of Astrophysics: "Redshift Drift in Relativistic N-Body Simulations" by Alexander Oestreicher (U. Southern Denmark, DK), Chris Clarkson (QMUL, UK), Julian Adamek (U. Zürich, CH) and Sofie Marie Koksbang (U. Southern Denmark, DK)

    doi.org/10.33232/001c.147178

    November 12, 2025, 8:35 am 1 boosts 0 favorites

     

    The fifth paper for this week is “Attributing the point symmetric structure of core-collapse supernova remnant N132D to the jittering jets explosion mechanism” by Noam Soker (Technion, Haifa, Israel). This one, published on Wednesday November 12th in the folder High-Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, presents a discussion of the morphology of a supernova remnant and possible explanation for it in terms of the explosion mechanism.

    The overlay is here:

     

    The officially accepted version can be found on arXiv here. The Fediverse announcement is here:

    Open Journal of Astrophysics

    @[email protected]

    New Publication at the Open Journal of Astrophysics: "Attributing the point symmetric structure of core-collapse supernova remnant N132D to the jittering jets explosion mechanism" by Noam Soker (Technion, Haifa, Israel)

    doi.org/10.33232/001c.147183

    November 12, 2025, 8:46 am 1 boosts 0 favorites

    The sixth paper to report this week is “Witnessing downsizing in the making: quiescent and breathing galaxies at the dawn of the Universe” by Emiliano Merlin (Osservatorio Astronomico di Roma, Italy) and an international cast of 20 others based in Italy, Germany, UK, USA, Switzerland, Spain and China. This one was published on Friday November 14th in the folder Astrophysics of Galaxies.

    You can find the officially-accepted version on arXiv here. The fediverse announcement is here:

    Open Journal of Astrophysics

    @[email protected]

    New Publication at the Open Journal of Astrophysics: "Witnessing downsizing in the making: quiescent and breathing galaxies at the dawn of the Universe" by Emiliano Merlin (Osservatorio Astronomico di Roma, Italy) and 20 others based in Italy, Germany, UK, USA, Switzerland, Spain and China

    doi.org/10.33232/001c.147267

    November 14, 2025, 8:38 am 1 boosts 1 favorites

    And finally (for this week) we have “Beyond No No Tension: JWST z > 10 Galaxies Push Simulations to the Limit” by Joe McCaffrey (NUI Maynooth, Ireland), Samantha Hardin & John Wise (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA) and John Regan (Maynooth). This one was also published on Friday 14th November, in the folder marked Astrophysics of Galaxies. It asks the question whether newly-discovered high redshift galaxies are consistent with simulations of galaxy formation. The overlay is here:

    You can find the officially acceopted version on arXiv here. The fediverse announcement is here:

    Open Journal of Astrophysics

    @[email protected]

    New Publication at the Open Journal of Astrophysics: "Beyond No No Tension: JWST z > 10 Galaxies Push Simulations to the Limit" by Joe McCaffrey (NUI Maynooth, Ireland), Samantha Hardin & John Wise (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA) and John Regan (Maynooth)

    doi.org/10.33232/001c.147278

    November 14, 2025, 9:02 am 2 boosts 0 favorites

    And that concludes the update for this week. There will be another next Saturday.

    #250419510v2 #arXiv240518468v2 #arXiv250101578v2 #arXiv250419510v2 #arXiv250504731v2 #arXiv250700757v2 #arXiv250907695v2 #arXiv250909764v3 #AstrophysicsOfGalaxies #blackHoles #Cosmology #CosmologyAndNonGalacticAstrophysics #DiamondOpenAccess #DiamondOpenAccessPublishing #downsizing #dynamicalFriction #Explosion #galaxyFormation #gravitationalMicrolensing #HighEnergyAstrophysicalPhenomena #jitteringJets #JWST #M31 #neutrinos #OpenAccess #OpenJournalOfAstrophysics #redshiftDrift #splashbackRadius #supernovae #TheOpenJournalOfAstrophysics

  16. Good Tuesday morning. Here are some results from last night. The s50 took the following mosaic with 454 individual 20 second exposures. Here is the latest observation of #M31 #TheAndromedaGalaxy. #M110 is visible at the top of the image while #M32 is to the lower right. #seestar #S50 #space #astronomy #amateur

  17. Październik nie rozpieszcza. Jedna długa sesja, jedna krótka i kilka z września. Całość, to około 11 godzin materiału.
    Galaktyka Andromedy, M31 i okolice, czyli M33, M110 i NGC206.
    Obróbka:
    Siril, GraXpert, ASTAP, Cosmic Clarity I trochę wyciągnięte w LightRoomie.

    #seestars50 #andromeda #m31 #astrophotography #astrofotografia

  18. Wie verloren ich mich in (vermeintlich) absoluter Dunkelheit fühle! Erst recht im Angesicht dessen, was sich über mir auftut...
    Fujifilm X-E2, Samyang 12/2, 58", f2,0, 6400 ISO
    #52wochenfotochallenge #52wfc25 #astrophotography #M31 #milky_way

  19. Forgot to share this mosaic image of #M31 - #TheAndromedaGalaxy using the moon and sky light filter. Not sure I seem much improvement for this image from the filter. As you can see some satellites got caught in one of the mosaic images. #seestar #S50 #space #astronomy #amateur

  20. Meet the neighbours: The Andromeda Galaxy, M 31 M 32 is the little ball of stars to the lower left. M 110 is the little galaxy to the right. #astrophotography #seestar #m31

  21. Decided to do an another mosaic of #M31 #AndromedaGalaxy. Though the SeeStar app noted 1:50 time necessary to do it, it didn’t finish. Here is the failed mosaic. To the bottom right of Andromeda, you ca see #M110, that is a dwarf elliptical galaxy that orbits Andromeda. To the left of the bright center of Andromeda, you will see M32 with also orbits the larger galaxy. #seestar #S50 #space #astronomy #amateur

  22. Meet the neighbours. A quick mosaic of the Andromeda Galaxy M31 between the clouds at the Okie-Tex Star Party. M32 is the ball of stars to the left, M110 is the cloud on the right. #astrophotography #seestar #m31

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