#starcluster — Public Fediverse posts

https://www.europesays.com/ie/463851/ Hubble Captures Spiral Galaxy Packed with Brilliant Star Clusters: NGC 3137 #Éire #esa #Galaxy #Hubble #IE #Ireland #LocalGroup #nasa #NGC3137 #NGC3175Group #Science #SpiralGalaxy #star #StarCluster #StarFormation

Globular Cluster M3

https://youtube.com/shorts/QKKd2zN_S2I?si=VuZJSO7H45KwccVa

#educationalshorts
#starcluster
#astronomy
#M3
#globularcluster
#photography
#astrophotography
#smartphoneastronomy

Keeping up with the latest #astronomy news in the stargazing app #StarWalk. #dso #deepskyobject #visiblegalaxies #galaxy #starcluster #skytonight #starwalk #aprilsky #deepspace starwalk.space/ay/en/dso-apr

April Astrophotography Targets...

https://www.europesays.com/uk/825269/ Sun May Have Escaped Milky Way’s Crowded Core Billions of Years Ago #EarlySolarSystem #esa #GaiaSatellite #Galaxy #Migration #MilkyWay #Science #SolarSystem #SolarTwin #SolarTypeStar #Space #Star #StarCluster #sun #SunLikeStar #UK #UnitedKingdom

Sun May Have Escaped Milky Way’s Crowded Core Billions of Years Ago

Using a vast catalog of Sun-like stars built by ESA’s Gaia mission, astronomers have found strong evidence that…
#NewsBeep #News #Space #CA #Canada #EarlySolarSystem #ESA #Gaiasatellite #Galaxy #migration #MilkyWay #Science #SolarSystem #Solartwin #Solar-typestar #star #Starcluster #sun #Sun-likestar
https://www.newsbeep.com/ca/535712/

Sun May Have Escaped Milky Way’s Crowded Core Billions of Years Ago

Using a vast catalog of Sun-like stars built by ESA’s Gaia mission, astronomers have found strong evidence that…
#NewsBeep #News #Space #CA #Canada #EarlySolarSystem #ESA #Gaiasatellite #Galaxy #migration #MilkyWay #Science #SolarSystem #Solartwin #Solar-typestar #star #Starcluster #sun #Sun-likestar
https://www.newsbeep.com/ca/535712/

https://www.europesays.com/ie/384610/ Sun May Have Escaped Milky Way’s Crowded Core Billions of Years Ago #EarlySolarSystem #Éire #esa #GaiaSatellite #Galaxy #IE #Ireland #Migration #MilkyWay #Science #SolarSystem #SolarTwin #SolarTypeStar #Space #star #StarCluster #Sun #SunLikeStar

#Pleiades: The #SevenSisters #StarCluster
#Astronomy #Picture of the Day

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap260223.html

#APOD

The James #Webb Space Telescope would probably not be your first choice for observing the large open #StarCluster of the #Pleiades but the authors of the paper "JWST imaging of the Pleiades: anisotropy of turbulence in the cold neutral medium" - https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.03672 - did it anyway, to study the turbulent energy cascade in the CNM the cluster happens to move through right now. Here is what they saw, with the NIRCam and the F335M filter - for the four cuts from the JWST pictures at the bottom in detail see fig. 2 of the paper.

A cosmic-ray loaded nascent outflow driven by a massive #StarCluster: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-65592-4 -> NASA’s Fermi Spots Young Star Cluster Blowing Gamma-Ray Bubbles: https://science.nasa.gov/missions/fermi/nasas-fermi-spots-young-star-cluster-blowing-gamma-ray-bubbles/

🌌✨ Stellar surprise! The Pleiades (Seven Sisters) star cluster is 20x larger than we thought—thousands of hidden siblings uncovered via NASA’s TESS & ESA’s Gaia. A cosmic family reunion reshaping our view of the galaxy! Read more: https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-seven-sisters-star-cluster-is-20-times-larger-than-we-thought-48250

@goodnews

#GoodNews #Pleiades #StarCluster #SpaceDiscovery #AstronomyWin

🌌✨ Stellar surprise! The Pleiades (Seven Sisters) star cluster is 20x larger than we thought—thousands of hidden siblings uncovered via NASA’s TESS & ESA’s Gaia. A cosmic family reunion reshaping our view of the galaxy! Read more: https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-seven-sisters-star-cluster-is-20-times-larger-than-we-thought-48250

@goodnews

#GoodNews #Pleiades #StarCluster #SpaceDiscovery #AstronomyWin

🌌✨ Stellar surprise! The Pleiades (Seven Sisters) star cluster is 20x larger than we thought—thousands of hidden siblings uncovered via NASA’s TESS & ESA’s Gaia. A cosmic family reunion reshaping our view of the galaxy! Read more: https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-seven-sisters-star-cluster-is-20-times-larger-than-we-thought-48250

@goodnews

#GoodNews #Pleiades #StarCluster #SpaceDiscovery #AstronomyWin

🌌✨ Stellar surprise! The Pleiades (Seven Sisters) star cluster is 20x larger than we thought—thousands of hidden siblings uncovered via NASA’s TESS & ESA’s Gaia. A cosmic family reunion reshaping our view of the galaxy! Read more: https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-seven-sisters-star-cluster-is-20-times-larger-than-we-thought-48250

@goodnews

#GoodNews #Pleiades #StarCluster #SpaceDiscovery #AstronomyWin

🌌✨ Stellar surprise! The Pleiades (Seven Sisters) star cluster is 20x larger than we thought—thousands of hidden siblings uncovered via NASA’s TESS & ESA’s Gaia. A cosmic family reunion reshaping our view of the galaxy! Read more: https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-seven-sisters-star-cluster-is-20-times-larger-than-we-thought-48250

@goodnews

#GoodNews #Pleiades #StarCluster #SpaceDiscovery #AstronomyWin

So, here's another one.

This is basically the same as the last one, but I *cheated* in processing by using the Mantiuk Tonemapping operator as provided by #GIMP.

Fun fact about this; my wegde was in use at the time, so I just put the #Seestar out on its mini tripod and let it do a Mosaic of 1.4x the target area using 10s exposures;

* wanted a mosaic to have more pixels to play with
* it would cover the area regardless of eq/alt-az mode

Turned out really well, I think.

For comparison, the non-tonemapped variant is here: https://hachyderm.io/@fritschy/115511302281409427

#Astrodon #starcluster #astrophotography #beginner

This image, captured by the Hubble Space Telescope , shows the globular star cluster Omega Centauri which is located about 15,790 light-years from Earth.

Image Credits:- NASA/ESA/Hubble SM4 ERO Team

#NASA #space #universe #hubble #starcluster #picoftheday

A shape perfect in space, viewed as though some nostalgic dream of place you've never been...

My own artwork, "Galactic eye in sepia".

#art #digitalart #digitalpainting #painting #spaceart #stars #nebula #starcluster #galaxy

The Westerlund 1 star cluster

This view combines x-ray data from Chandra, infrared data from JWST, and optical data from Hubble.

Credits: X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO; Optical: NASA/ESA/STScI; IR: NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI; Processing: NASA/CXC/SAO/L. Frattare

https://www.nasa.gov/image-article/an-eye-catching-star-cluster/

#Westerlund1 #starcluster #chandra #jwst #hubble #astronomy #astrophysics #astrodon #stars #nasa #xray #sapce

The #Meteor and the #StarCluster
#Astronomy #Picture of the Day

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap250825.html

#APOD #Pleiades

📸 Messier 6 – The Butterfly Cluster

A cluster of about 100 young stars spreads its wings in Scorpius. Known as the Butterfly Cluster, Messier 6 glows with brilliant blue stars and one striking orange giant: BM Scorpii.
It spans 25 light-years near the heart of the Milky Way.

📷 Xinran Li / NASA APOD
#Messier6 #ButterflyCluster #Astrophotography #Space #Scorpius #StarCluster #StellarSnap

Image of globular cluster NGC 6397 in the constellation Ara (the Altar). The cluster is home to a highly unusual system consisting of a fast spinning pulsar and a bloated red companion star.

Credit:NASA, ESA and H. Richer (University of British Columbia)

#NASA #Space #StarsEverywhere #picoftheday #starcluster

Image of globular cluster NGC 6397 in the constellation Ara (the Altar). The cluster is home to a highly unusual system consisting of a fast spinning pulsar and a bloated red companion star.

Credit:NASA, ESA and H. Richer (University of British Columbia)

#NASA #Space #StarsEverywhere #picoftheday #starcluster

Image of globular cluster NGC 6397 in the constellation Ara (the Altar). The cluster is home to a highly unusual system consisting of a fast spinning pulsar and a bloated red companion star.

Credit:NASA, ESA and H. Richer (University of British Columbia)

#NASA #Space #StarsEverywhere #picoftheday #starcluster

Image of globular cluster NGC 6397 in the constellation Ara (the Altar). The cluster is home to a highly unusual system consisting of a fast spinning pulsar and a bloated red companion star.

Credit:NASA, ESA and H. Richer (University of British Columbia)

#NASA #Space #StarsEverywhere #picoftheday #starcluster

Image of globular cluster NGC 6397 in the constellation Ara (the Altar). The cluster is home to a highly unusual system consisting of a fast spinning pulsar and a bloated red companion star.

Credit:NASA, ESA and H. Richer (University of British Columbia)

#NASA #Space #StarsEverywhere #picoftheday #starcluster

The open star cluster Messier 21 as imaged by the Vera C. Rubin Observatory

Located near the Trifid Nebula, Messier 21 is relatively young and tightly packed with small, dim stars.

Credit: RubinObs/NOIRLab/SLAC/NSF/DOE/AURA
https://noirlab.edu/public/images/noirlab2521ag

@VRubinObs

#RubinFirstLook #CaptureTheCosmos #Astronomy #Astrophysics #Astrodon #Rubin #observatory #RubinObservatory #science #telescope #Messier21 #opencluster #starcluster #astrophotography

The open star cluster Messier 21 as imaged by the Vera C. Rubin Observatory

Located near the Trifid Nebula, Messier 21 is relatively young and tightly packed with small, dim stars.

Credit: RubinObs/NOIRLab/SLAC/NSF/DOE/AURA
https://noirlab.edu/public/images/noirlab2521ag

@VRubinObs

#RubinFirstLook #CaptureTheCosmos #Astronomy #Astrophysics #Astrodon #Rubin #observatory #RubinObservatory #science #telescope #Messier21 #opencluster #starcluster #astrophotography

The open star cluster Messier 21 as imaged by the Vera C. Rubin Observatory

Located near the Trifid Nebula, Messier 21 is relatively young and tightly packed with small, dim stars.

Credit: RubinObs/NOIRLab/SLAC/NSF/DOE/AURA
https://noirlab.edu/public/images/noirlab2521ag

@VRubinObs

#RubinFirstLook #CaptureTheCosmos #Astronomy #Astrophysics #Astrodon #Rubin #observatory #RubinObservatory #science #telescope #Messier21 #opencluster #starcluster #astrophotography

The open star cluster Messier 21 as imaged by the Vera C. Rubin Observatory

Located near the Trifid Nebula, Messier 21 is relatively young and tightly packed with small, dim stars.

Credit: RubinObs/NOIRLab/SLAC/NSF/DOE/AURA
https://noirlab.edu/public/images/noirlab2521ag

@VRubinObs

#RubinFirstLook #CaptureTheCosmos #Astronomy #Astrophysics #Astrodon #Rubin #observatory #RubinObservatory #science #telescope #Messier21 #opencluster #starcluster #astrophotography

The open star cluster Messier 21 as imaged by the Vera C. Rubin Observatory

Located near the Trifid Nebula, Messier 21 is relatively young and tightly packed with small, dim stars.

Credit: RubinObs/NOIRLab/SLAC/NSF/DOE/AURA
https://noirlab.edu/public/images/noirlab2521ag

@VRubinObs

#RubinFirstLook #CaptureTheCosmos #Astronomy #Astrophysics #Astrodon #Rubin #observatory #RubinObservatory #science #telescope #Messier21 #opencluster #starcluster #astrophotography

Rubin with M41 during First Look Observations

Credit: RubinObs/NOIRLab/SLAC/NSF/DOE/AURA/P. Horálek (Institute of Physics in Opava)

https://noirlab.edu/public/images/noirlab2521i/

@VRubinObs

#RubinFirstLook #CaptureTheCosmos #Astronomy #Astrophysics #Astrodon #Rubin #observatory #RubinObservatory #science #telescope #Messier41 #opencluster #starcluster #beehivecluster #astrophotography #nightskyphotography

The globular star cluster Messier 13 earlier tonight. Result of 3600 0.1-sec images made with my phone and (non-tracking) 20 cm f/3.8 telescope, combined in Siril and the background and color touched up in Gimp. Conditions at my moderately light-polluted site were okay but not great; transparency was poor. The colors of the stars in the image are subtle, just enough to tell the yellowish Red Giant Branch stars from the bluer Horizontal Branch and upper Main Sequence stars.

#Astronomy #Astrophotography #Messier13 #StarCluster

Young #StarCluster #NGC346
#Astronomy #Picture of the Day

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap250502.html

#APOD

Young #StarCluster #NGC346
#Astronomy #Picture of the Day

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap250502.html

#APOD

Young #StarCluster #NGC346
#Astronomy #Picture of the Day

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap250502.html

#APOD

Young #StarCluster #NGC346
#Astronomy #Picture of the Day

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap250502.html

#APOD

Young #StarCluster #NGC346
#Astronomy #Picture of the Day

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap250502.html

#APOD

This #Galaxy Was Mistaken for a #StarCluster – Then #Hubble Revealed Its Tentacles

https://scitechdaily.com/this-galaxy-was-mistaken-for-a-star-cluster-then-hubble-revealed-its-tentacles/

Keeping up with the latest #astronomy news in the stargazing app #StarWalk. #dso #deepskyobject #visiblegalaxies #galaxy #starcluster #skytonight #starwalk #aprilsky #deepspace starwalk.space/ay/en/dso-apr

Best Deep-Sky Objects by Month...

I don't talk about astronomy nearly enough, so let's change that!

One of the most groundbreaking developments in astronomy has been the absolutely mind-blowing work the James Webb Space Telescope has been putting out in a fraction of the time it took the old Hubble Space Telescope to produce similar work. Here are a couple of recent images I find particularly remarkable.

S1 LMC N79 – Dorado

Honestly, this image is just beautiful to look at. It’s even more breathtaking when you consider that this is just one cloud within this star-forming region of the Large Magellanic Cloud, which itself is an irregular galaxy located about 163,000 light-years from Earth. If you live in the Southern Hemisphere and find yourself a suitably dark place, you can gaze up and see this whole other galaxy as a milky blotch in the night sky.

You can read more about this image here.

A gravitationally lensed supernova in MRG-M0138 – Cetus

It's pretty wild seeing the immense force of gravity contained within these galactic clusters warp distant points of light in these visually striking ways. Each arc is a galaxy far beyond the cluster itself that allow us to peer further back in time. Sometimes these warped images mirror themselves on the complete opposite side of the cluster, like ripples on a pond. In the case of this distant supernova, the light emanating from that cataclysmic event is being reflected in such a way that it's reappearing further down the length of the arc, making it seem as though there are two supernovae happening when in fact they are the same.

You can read more about this image here.

#astronomy #jameswebbspacetelescope #starcluster #stellarnursery #molecularcloud #largemagellaniccloud #supernova #gravitationallensing #galaxies

Seasonal Object: vdB 21 – Maia Nebula

The Maia #Nebula is a #reflectionnebula associated with the #star #Maia in the #Pleiades #starcluster, located in the #constellation #Taurus approximately 400 light-years away from #Earth. It reaches its annual culmination at astronomical midnight in late November ...

detailed information: https://astrocamp.eu/en/vdb-21-maia-nebula/

Vixen ED80sf | Canon EOS M100

#astrophoto #astrophotography #nightsky #space #sky #astronomy #telescope #clearskies #picture #photography #naturephotography #astrodon

#M41: The #LittleBeehive #StarCluster
#Astronomy #Picture of the Day

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap250225.html

#APOD

#M41: The #LittleBeehive #StarCluster
#Astronomy #Picture of the Day

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap250225.html

#APOD

#M41: The #LittleBeehive #StarCluster
#Astronomy #Picture of the Day

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap250225.html

#APOD

#Globular #StarCluster #NGC6752
#Astronomy #Picture of the Day

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap200123.html

#APOD

The #Merope #Nebula is a #reflectionnebula associated with the #star #Merope in the #Pleiades #starcluster, located in the #constellation #Taurus approximately 400 light-years away from #Earth. It reaches its annual culmination at astronomical midnight in late November.

detailed information: https://astrocamp.eu/en/vdb-22-merope-nebula/

Vixen ED80sf | Canon EOS M100

#astrophoto #astrophotography #nightsky #space #sky #astronomy #telescope #clearskies #picture #photography #naturephotography #astrodon

Science Magazine Astronomy Covers - 2014

How far are these stars? Precise interferometry settles the question for the Pleiades.

Featuring a photography by Roberto Colombari.

https://www.science.org/toc/science/345/6200

#universe #stars #pleiades #starcluster #astrophotography #photography #astronomy #astrophysics #astrodon #space #science #magazine #sciencemagazine #cover #covers #sciencecovers #research #interferometry

Young #StarCluster #NGC346
#Astronomy #Picture of the Day

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap230113.html

Young #StarCluster #NGC346
#Astronomy #Picture of the Day

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap230113.html