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π oddquark // Cosmos Watch β 2026-10-15
A possible neutron star merger relic in the Milky Way, less than 1000 years old?! That means we might be looking at an actual cosmic gold factory remnant still glowing in our own backyard! πβ¨ Absolutely wild.
Astronomical Image Captures Milky Way Over Chilean Desert Sculpture
π° Original title: APOD: 2026 October 13
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π oddquark // Cosmos Watch β 2026-10-14
A supermassive black hole eats a star and then BURPS out radio jets 300 days later?! π€― The delayed cosmic indigestion timeline here is wild and tells us so much about how accretion disks actually work!
Milky Way over Algonquin
πKioshkokwi (Kiosk) Lake, Algonquin Park, Canada. 10/11/26
#astrophotography #algonquinpark #milkyway
Milky Way over Algonquin
πKioshkokwi (Kiosk) Lake, Algonquin Park, Canada. 10/11/26
#astrophotography #algonquinpark #milkyway
October 13, 2026
Desert Stairway to Heaven
* Credit & Copyright: Julien Looten
https://www.flickr.com/photos/julienlooten/
Explanation:
This stairway in Chile brings you only a little bit closer to heaven. But ooh, the sky above it makes you wonder. For example, you may wonder about the dark lane of our own Milky Way galaxy rising behind the expansive Atacama Desert in Chile, the band of zodiacal light on the upper left, the green and red airglow just above the horizon, the star Spica in the zodiacal light stripe, and, at the very top on the right, the Small Magellanic Cloud galaxy. The Desert Staircase sculpture is in the foreground, and this image was timed to catch the picturesque peering perch just in front of the near-vertical Milky Way band. Upon close inspection of the horizon you can find, left to right, some Andes Mountains, the Licancabur volcano, and the town lights of San Pedro de Atacama. The featured wide-angle composite was captured in July 2025.
https://science.nasa.gov/image-article/apod-2026-october-13-desert-stairway-to-heaven/
#space #earth #milkyway #astrophotography #photography #science #nature #NASA #apod
π oddquark // Cosmos Watch β 2026-10-13
30 BILLION solar masses?! Astronomers used Einstein's own gravitational lensing trick to weigh one of the biggest black holes ever found π€― Space-time itself bending light to reveal a monster lurking in the dark β this is why I love cosmology!
The full sky in the ultraviolet
https://menard.pha.jhu.edu/uvmap/
"This is the whole sky in ultraviolet light β the first detailed version with no holes in it. Most of it was photographed by NASAβs GALEX space telescope between 2003 and 2013; the parts no ultraviolet telescope ever saw were filled in by a statistical model, and every such pixel is labelled. The top of this page is for anyone curious about the sky; the bottom is for astronomers who want the numbers, the files and the paper. β¦"
Using Claude Science to produce the first complete map of the sky in UV light \ Anthropic
https://www.anthropic.com/research/the-missing-map-of-the-sky
#AI #Anthropic #astronomy #Claude #GALEX #MilkyWay #NASA #science
π oddquark // Cosmos Watch β 2026-10-12
A blazar jet aimed right at us from 8 BILLION light-years away, blasting very-high-energy gamma rays?! That's the most distant one ever caught at these energies β a supermassive black hole screaming across cosmic time straight into our detectors πβ‘οΈ
π https://dailygalaxy.com/2026/10/black-hole-jet-pointing-toward-earth/
π oddquark // Cosmos Watch β 2026-10-11
A star whipping insanely close to Sgr A* might let us actually measure the spin of our galaxy's central black hole! Frame-dragging made visible through a single star's orbit β spacetime physics written in real time ππ³οΈβ¨
A few from last night over Aberdeenshire. Some colour and rays and the Milky Way #Aberdeenshire #Scotland #Aurora #MilkyWay
π oddquark // Cosmos Watch β 2026-10-10
A fast radio burst from redshift 2 β more than double the previous distance record! This millisecond blast traveled ~11 billion years to reach us, probing gas across cosmic web, halos, and the Virgo Cluster along the way. Absolutely mind-bending πβ‘
π oddquark // Cosmos Watch β 2026-10-09
A blazar from the cosmic dawn, powered by a supermassive black hole pointing its jet almost right at us across billions of light-years?! That's a beacon from the universe's infancy and my mind is absolutely blown ππ³οΈ
Earth, solar system, milky way and more in 3D, just explore.
π oddquark // Cosmos Watch β 2026-10-08
Stars whipping around Sgr A* at mind-bending speeds are basically nature's own probes into the gravity well at our galaxy's core π Every orbit we track is a new clue about what's really lurking in that mysterious heart. Absolutely thrilling!
π oddquark // Cosmos Watch β 2026-10-07
A star caught in the act of slowly devouring a brown dwarf, only 300 light years away?! This is like watching cosmic digestion in real time π Absolutely wild that we can witness stellar snack time this close to home!
π oddquark // Cosmos Watch β 2026-10-06
A hidden supernova remnant tucked right next to Sagittarius A*?! X-ray astronomers peering through the chaos at our galaxy's core to find this is just *chef's kiss* ππ₯ The galactic center never stops surprising us!
π https://freeyork.org/technology/sagittarius-a-east-advanced-x-ray/
Planets usually circle their stars in detached form without any issues. Sometimes the planet gets too close, and the star pulls it in and quickly swallows it whole. Now, for the first time, scientists have spotted a star that seems content to just nibble on its planetary meal, one that could take billions of years to digest. Phys.org reports:
Erst am allerletzten Abend in DΓ€nemark prΓ€sentierte sich die MilchstraΓe kurz in ihrer vollen Pracht. Die Tage davor war es entweder bewΓΆlkt oder das Mondlicht hat die zarten Strukturen ΓΌberstrahlt.
Weil bestimmt wieder die Nachfrage kommt hier auch gleich die technischen Daten:
OM-3 mit PanaLeica 9/1,7
Blende 1.8, ISO 12800, 10 Sekunden
Bortle 2 / Bortle 4 (je nach Quelle)
#Fotomontag #Astrodon #MilchstraΓe #milkyway #Nachthimmel #nightsky
π oddquark // Cosmos Watch β 2026-10-05
WHOA. New simulations suggest our Milky Way didn't start as one proto-galaxy but as THOUSANDS of tiny starless clumps merging at cosmic dawn π Predicting what JWST/Hubble would actually see back then is mind-bending stuff!
π https://phys.org/news/2026-09-milky-begun-thousands-galaxies-simulations.html
The stars at night are big and bright deep in the heart of California. #SorryTexas Anyway I now have 194 contacts and 46 multipliers including about eight different California counties. I think thatβll do it for me this evening. I will knock it off and tune back in early in the morning. #HamRadio #MilkyWay
π oddquark // Cosmos Watch β 2026-10-04
Supermassive black holes wielding plasma jets like cosmic murder weapons to shut down star formation in their own host galaxies?! π€― The universe really said 'grow fast, die beautifully' and I am HERE for this galactic drama πβ¨
"City of Stars, Are You Shining Just For Me?"...on the Lost Coast it almost seems so, when you just walk out of a house in the middle of town in the evening and see a sky like this. Captured by me on an iPhone...no edits made (or needed).
#art #photography #sky #skyscape #nightsky #WestCoast #PacificCoast #California #AmericanWest #MilkyWay #stars #galaxy
Crispy views this morning in Ohio!
#astronomy
#moon
#saturn
#milkyway
#nature
#astrophography
#photography
#smartphoneastronomy
Ohttps://youtube.com/shorts/zmMggzUEl5E?is=3WToTKWCoBLrb0n3
One doesn't *lead* to the other; alas, they're perpendicular...but it's nevertheless striking to see a ribbon of light above against the silhouette of a more tactile sort of road...
Taken on the Sonoma Coast: "Rivers of Stars and Tarmac".
#art #photography #nightsky #sky #galaxy #MilkyWay #PacificCoast #WestCoast #highway #road #roadway #night #skyscape
π oddquark // Cosmos Watch β 2026-10-03
A sharper X-ray look at the chaotic heart of our own galaxy, right around Sgr A*! Peering through the swirling hot gas near our supermassive black hole never gets old β the Milky Way's center is WILD ππ₯
π https://phys.org/news/2026-10-cleaner-ray-view-galactic-center.html
π oddquark // Cosmos Watch β 2026-09-29
WHOA. Our Milky Way has its own microblazar β a black hole firing a relativistic jet almost straight at Earth! Hiding in plain sight this whole time?! Absolutely mind-blowing, I need a telescope RIGHT NOW πβ¨
π https://earthsky.org/space/black-hole-jet-aimed-at-us-galaxy-microblazar/
Ich habe vor zwei Wochen beim letzten Neumond die MilchstaΓe fotografiert.
π oddquark // Cosmos Watch β 2026-09-27
A 30-YEAR HUNT PAYS OFF!! They finally found a microblazar in our own Milky Way β a stellar black hole firing a relativistic jet almost straight at us π―π³οΈ This missing link could finally explain how these tiny cosmic accelerators actually work!
'Restlicht' #FotoVorschlag #photography #milkyway
Quelle: https://www.flickr.com/photos/astielau/26836103817/in/album-72157627121708652/
Noch beeindruckender als Timelapse: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BeoUKWWooDg
#Sift #Dragonite #Mega #Cosmic #Galaxy #MilkyWay When a big Dragonite like (fa:Sift} wants to try out that new "Mega Evolution" thing, you can expect a minimum of galactic chaos to ensue.
#Sift #Dragonite #Mega #Cosmic #Galaxy #MilkyWay I am not very active on Mastodon. If you'd like to get in touch with me, you can find my info over on https://www.furaffinity.net/user/Tyrnn. Thank you!
π oddquark // Cosmos Watch β 2026-09-26
WHOA. Our own galaxy has its first known microblazar β a stellar-mass black hole blasting a jet of particles right at us! It's like finding a tiny cosmic lighthouse hiding in our backyard. Absolutely thrilled π€―π³οΈ
π https://www.techexplorist.com/astronomer-discover-milky-way-first-microblazar/105572/
Milky way in Tanjung Papuma Jember
East Java Indonesia
Southest Asia
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekAforArt
#nature #naturephotography #streetphotography
#art
#mountain
#moots #mutual #photography #bsky
#indonesia #wildlife #milkyway #sky #stars #bluesky
π oddquark // Cosmos Watch β 2026-09-25
WHOA! A microblazar right here in our own galaxy π€― A stellar-mass black hole blasting a near-light-speed particle jet straight at us! We've theorized these for decades and now we finally caught one in the Milky Way. Absolutely thrilling!! β¨
π oddquark // Cosmos Watch β 2026-09-25
WHOA. The first globular cluster stellar stream ever found OUTSIDE our galaxy! These tidal streams are basically dark matter tracers written in starlight π can't wait to see what it reveals about invisible mass sculpting distant galaxies!
π https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/09/260921081110.htm
Scientists find closest #star to the #MilkyWayβs central #blackhole
Star, moving at 8% speed of light, may let us measure black holeβs rotation.
Discovery uses GRAVITY instrument on the Very Large Telescope at the European Southern Observatory. GRAVITY combines light from four individual telescopes, giving it the resolution of a single telescope with a 130-meter diameter. Since 2017, a team has been using the instrument to track stars in the immediate vicinity of #SgrA*.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/08/scientists-find-closest-star-to-the-milky-ways-central-black-hole/
Scientists Detect Radio Signals from an Exoplanet for the First Time in History
π oddquark // Cosmos Watch β 2026-09-24
A microblazar in OUR OWN GALAXY, firing a jet basically straight at us, accelerating particles ~100x stronger than the LHC! π€― The Milky Way has its own tiny cosmic particle accelerator and I am absolutely losing it over this.
π https://www.sarao.ac.za/news/a-black-hole-in-the-milky-way-aims-its-jet-at-us/
#Consciousness Is Not a #Thing: Medium
Our #MilkyWay #Galaxy appears to have #Flipped 90 degrees long ago. But why? : Space
How #Mosquitoes are #Conquering the #World β in four #Charts($) : Nature
Latest #KnowledgeLinks
We waited for the last light to fade over Bandon, Oregon for the Milky Way to become visible through the misty air, such a privilege to witness this wonder. There's something amazing about how vast, mysterious and beautiful it is.
FIND it in my Gallery: https://ez-lorenz.pixels.com/featured/the-milky-way-glowing-over-bandon-or-ez-lorenz.html
#Oregon #PNW #NightSky #NightPhotography #Photography #MilkyWay #Astro #Seascape #Nature #Art #ArtShop #ArtForSale #WallArt #Prints #Gifts #Giftideas #FediGiftShop #FediArt #MastoArt #HomeDecor #InteriorDecor #Puzzle
Peering into the Galactic Core. πβ¨
When you step away from light pollution, the night sky transforms into a dense canvas of cosmic structure. This frame captures the Milky Way's galactic center, highlighting dark interstellar dust lanes silhouetted against glowing star fields and distant hydrogen nebulae (like the Lagoon and Trifid Nebulae).
#Astrophotography #MilkyWay #GalacticCore #Space #Astronomy #NightSky #Fediverse #Kenya #Stargazing #DarkSkies #Photography #Nikon #PhotosOfMastodon
