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A meteor streaks through the Pleiades, leaving a green glow from vaporized metals. 🌠

This chance capture happened during an hour-long exposure in al-Ula, Saudi Arabia. Alongside the bright blue stars and reflection dust of M45, the surprise visitor transformed the photo into something extraordinary.

📷 Yousif Alqasimi & Essa Al Jasmi
📅 Aug 25, 2025 (APOD)

#Pleiades #M45 #Meteor #Astrophotography #StellarSnap #NightSky

A green meteor flashes across the sky — right in front of the Andromeda Galaxy.

Captured during a 2016 exposure, this meteor flared multiple times as it entered Earth’s atmosphere, likely from the Delta Aquariid shower. Behind it lies M31, 2.5 million light-years away.

📷 Fritz Helmut Hemmerich
📅 August 6, 2025 (APOD)

#MeteorShower #AndromedaGalaxy #DeltaAquariids #Astrophotography #StellarSnap

A dying star carved this tangled cloud of gas and dust.

NGC 6072, captured in infrared by the Webb Space Telescope, shows overlapping disks and outflows that hint at a chaotic past—possibly shaped by a multi-star system.

📅 Aug 5, 2025
📷 NASA / ESA / CSA / STScI / JWST
🔭 #NGC6072 #PlanetaryNebula #JWST #InfraredAstronomy #Astrophotography #StellarSnap

Faint blue arcs stretch across the sky near Andromeda. But they aren’t part of that galaxy.

SDSO 1 is now recognized as a Ghost Planetary Nebula, a newly defined class. It belongs to our own Milky Way.

Discovered by amateurs. Confirmed with 550 hours of data.

📅 Aug 4, 2025
📷 Patrick Ogle et al.
#SDSO1 #PlanetaryNebula #Andromeda #DeepSky #Astrophotography #StellarSnap

Faint blue arcs stretch across the sky near Andromeda. But they aren’t part of that galaxy.

SDSO 1 is now recognized as a Ghost Planetary Nebula, a newly defined class. It belongs to our own Milky Way.

Discovered by amateurs. Confirmed with 550 hours of data.

📅 Aug 4, 2025
📷 Patrick Ogle et al.
#SDSO1 #PlanetaryNebula #Andromeda #DeepSky #Astrophotography #StellarSnap

Faint blue arcs stretch across the sky near Andromeda. But they aren’t part of that galaxy.

SDSO 1 is now recognized as a Ghost Planetary Nebula, a newly defined class. It belongs to our own Milky Way.

Discovered by amateurs. Confirmed with 550 hours of data.

📅 Aug 4, 2025
📷 Patrick Ogle et al.
#SDSO1 #PlanetaryNebula #Andromeda #DeepSky #Astrophotography #StellarSnap

Faint blue arcs stretch across the sky near Andromeda. But they aren’t part of that galaxy.

SDSO 1 is now recognized as a Ghost Planetary Nebula, a newly defined class. It belongs to our own Milky Way.

Discovered by amateurs. Confirmed with 550 hours of data.

📅 Aug 4, 2025
📷 Patrick Ogle et al.
#SDSO1 #PlanetaryNebula #Andromeda #DeepSky #Astrophotography #StellarSnap

What if time moved slower… just because of where you are?

Earth vs. near Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole.

This is real. This is relativity.

Try it yourself: https://stellarsnap.space

#TimeDilation #GeneralRelativity #BlackHole #Astronomy #StellarSnap

What if time moved slower… just because of where you are?

Earth vs. near Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole.

This is real. This is relativity.

Try it yourself: https://stellarsnap.space

#TimeDilation #GeneralRelativity #BlackHole #Astronomy #StellarSnap

What if time moved slower… just because of where you are?

Earth vs. near Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole.

This is real. This is relativity.

Try it yourself: https://stellarsnap.space

#TimeDilation #GeneralRelativity #BlackHole #Astronomy #StellarSnap

What if time moved slower… just because of where you are?

Earth vs. near Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole.

This is real. This is relativity.

Try it yourself: https://stellarsnap.space

#TimeDilation #GeneralRelativity #BlackHole #Astronomy #StellarSnap

A tiny dark cloud floats in the Eagle Nebula, known as a Bok globule.
These small, dense knots of gas and dust are some of the coldest, darkest places in the galaxy.
They may be small, but they carry the seeds of stars yet to be born.

📷 Peter Bresseler
🔗 Learn more: https://stellarsnap.space/glossary/Nebula
#BokGlobule #Nebula #EagleNebula #APOD #Astrophotography #Space #StellarSnap

📸 Supernova 2025rbs in NGC 7331

Detected on July 14, 2025rbs is a Type Ia supernova in the galaxy NGC 7331, 50 million light-years away. Likely caused by a white dwarf's thermonuclear explosion, it's now the brightest supernova in Earth's sky.

📷 Ben Godson

#Supernova2025rbs #NGC7331 #TypeIa #Astronomy #StellarSnap #DeepSky

📸 Supernova 2025rbs in NGC 7331

Detected on July 14, 2025rbs is a Type Ia supernova in the galaxy NGC 7331, 50 million light-years away. Likely caused by a white dwarf's thermonuclear explosion, it's now the brightest supernova in Earth's sky.

📷 Ben Godson

#Supernova2025rbs #NGC7331 #TypeIa #Astronomy #StellarSnap #DeepSky

📸 Supernova 2025rbs in NGC 7331

Detected on July 14, 2025rbs is a Type Ia supernova in the galaxy NGC 7331, 50 million light-years away. Likely caused by a white dwarf's thermonuclear explosion, it's now the brightest supernova in Earth's sky.

📷 Ben Godson

#Supernova2025rbs #NGC7331 #TypeIa #Astronomy #StellarSnap #DeepSky

📸 Supernova 2025rbs in NGC 7331

Detected on July 14, 2025rbs is a Type Ia supernova in the galaxy NGC 7331, 50 million light-years away. Likely caused by a white dwarf's thermonuclear explosion, it's now the brightest supernova in Earth's sky.

📷 Ben Godson

#Supernova2025rbs #NGC7331 #TypeIa #Astronomy #StellarSnap #DeepSky

📸 Coronal Loops on the Sun

Loops of plasma rise from the Sun’s surface, shaped by magnetic fields. These coronal loops can last for days and reach sizes big enough to surround Earth.

This panel shows four loops captured in 2024 and 2025 from Mantova, Italy, in light emitted by hydrogen.

📷 Andrea Vanoni

#CoronalLoops #SolarProminence #SunActivity #Astrophotography #StellarSnap #SpaceWeather

📸 Coronal Loops on the Sun

Loops of plasma rise from the Sun’s surface, shaped by magnetic fields. These coronal loops can last for days and reach sizes big enough to surround Earth.

This panel shows four loops captured in 2024 and 2025 from Mantova, Italy, in light emitted by hydrogen.

📷 Andrea Vanoni

#CoronalLoops #SolarProminence #SunActivity #Astrophotography #StellarSnap #SpaceWeather

📸 Coronal Loops on the Sun

Loops of plasma rise from the Sun’s surface, shaped by magnetic fields. These coronal loops can last for days and reach sizes big enough to surround Earth.

This panel shows four loops captured in 2024 and 2025 from Mantova, Italy, in light emitted by hydrogen.

📷 Andrea Vanoni

#CoronalLoops #SolarProminence #SunActivity #Astrophotography #StellarSnap #SpaceWeather

📸 Coronal Loops on the Sun

Loops of plasma rise from the Sun’s surface, shaped by magnetic fields. These coronal loops can last for days and reach sizes big enough to surround Earth.

This panel shows four loops captured in 2024 and 2025 from Mantova, Italy, in light emitted by hydrogen.

📷 Andrea Vanoni

#CoronalLoops #SolarProminence #SunActivity #Astrophotography #StellarSnap #SpaceWeather

📸 A Helix Nebula Deep Field

The Helix Nebula (NGC 7293) looks like a giant cosmic eye, but it's actually a planetary nebula — a glowing cloud of gas from a dying Sun-like star.

This deep field image, captured over 12 hours from Greece, highlights glowing hydrogen and reveals complex knots of gas near the nebula’s edge.

📷 George Chatzifrantzis

#HelixNebula #NGC7293 #PlanetaryNebula #Astrophotography #StellarSnap #DeepSky

📸 A Helix Nebula Deep Field

The Helix Nebula (NGC 7293) looks like a giant cosmic eye, but it's actually a planetary nebula — a glowing cloud of gas from a dying Sun-like star.

This deep field image, captured over 12 hours from Greece, highlights glowing hydrogen and reveals complex knots of gas near the nebula’s edge.

📷 George Chatzifrantzis

#HelixNebula #NGC7293 #PlanetaryNebula #Astrophotography #StellarSnap #DeepSky

📸 Lightning over the Volcano of Water

Captured in July 2019, this lightning bolt strikes from antennas near the summit of Volcán de Agua in Guatemala.

Lightning forms when storm clouds build up electric charge from collisions between ice and snow. The discharge heats air hotter than the Sun’s surface.

📷 Sergio Montúfar

#Lightning #VolcanDeAgua #Guatemala #StormPhotography #Astrophotography #StellarSnap #Weather

📸 Lightning over the Volcano of Water

Captured in July 2019, this lightning bolt strikes from antennas near the summit of Volcán de Agua in Guatemala.

Lightning forms when storm clouds build up electric charge from collisions between ice and snow. The discharge heats air hotter than the Sun’s surface.

📷 Sergio Montúfar

#Lightning #VolcanDeAgua #Guatemala #StormPhotography #Astrophotography #StellarSnap #Weather

📸 Lightning over the Volcano of Water

Captured in July 2019, this lightning bolt strikes from antennas near the summit of Volcán de Agua in Guatemala.

Lightning forms when storm clouds build up electric charge from collisions between ice and snow. The discharge heats air hotter than the Sun’s surface.

📷 Sergio Montúfar

#Lightning #VolcanDeAgua #Guatemala #StormPhotography #Astrophotography #StellarSnap #Weather

📸 Lightning over the Volcano of Water

Captured in July 2019, this lightning bolt strikes from antennas near the summit of Volcán de Agua in Guatemala.

Lightning forms when storm clouds build up electric charge from collisions between ice and snow. The discharge heats air hotter than the Sun’s surface.

📷 Sergio Montúfar

#Lightning #VolcanDeAgua #Guatemala #StormPhotography #Astrophotography #StellarSnap #Weather

📸 Globular Cluster Omega Centauri

Omega Centauri, or NGC 5139, is the largest and brightest globular cluster in the Milky Way. Located 15,000 light-years away, it holds about 10 million stars — some older than the Sun.

Its mixed stellar ages and compositions hint that it may be the remnant core of a dwarf galaxy.

📷 Data: SkyFlux Team
🛠️ Processing: Leo Shatz

#OmegaCentauri #GlobularCluster #NGC5139 #Astronomy #Astrophotography #StellarSnap

📸 Globular Cluster Omega Centauri

Omega Centauri, or NGC 5139, is the largest and brightest globular cluster in the Milky Way. Located 15,000 light-years away, it holds about 10 million stars — some older than the Sun.

Its mixed stellar ages and compositions hint that it may be the remnant core of a dwarf galaxy.

📷 Data: SkyFlux Team
🛠️ Processing: Leo Shatz

#OmegaCentauri #GlobularCluster #NGC5139 #Astronomy #Astrophotography #StellarSnap

📸 Globular Cluster Omega Centauri

Omega Centauri, or NGC 5139, is the largest and brightest globular cluster in the Milky Way. Located 15,000 light-years away, it holds about 10 million stars — some older than the Sun.

Its mixed stellar ages and compositions hint that it may be the remnant core of a dwarf galaxy.

📷 Data: SkyFlux Team
🛠️ Processing: Leo Shatz

#OmegaCentauri #GlobularCluster #NGC5139 #Astronomy #Astrophotography #StellarSnap

📸 Globular Cluster Omega Centauri

Omega Centauri, or NGC 5139, is the largest and brightest globular cluster in the Milky Way. Located 15,000 light-years away, it holds about 10 million stars — some older than the Sun.

Its mixed stellar ages and compositions hint that it may be the remnant core of a dwarf galaxy.

📷 Data: SkyFlux Team
🛠️ Processing: Leo Shatz

#OmegaCentauri #GlobularCluster #NGC5139 #Astronomy #Astrophotography #StellarSnap

📸 Twelve Years of Kappa Cygnids

Unlike the bright and busy Perseids, the Kappa Cygnid meteor shower is subtle — just a few meteors per hour. But over 12 years and 51 nights, their beauty adds up.

This composite captures meteors from 2012 to 2024, layered over the Milky Way above Elafonisi Beach, Crete.

📷 Petr Horálek, Josef Kujal, Tomáš Slovinský
🙏 Mahdi Zamani

#KappaCygnids #MeteorShower #MilkyWay #Astrophotography #StellarSnap

📸 Titan Shadow Transit

Every 15 years, Saturn’s rings appear edge-on from Earth. The view may be narrow, but it reveals rare transits of Saturn’s moons and their shadows.

In this image from July 18, Titan crosses Saturn’s face, casting a dark round shadow on its cloud tops.

📷 Volodymyr Andrienko

#Titan #Saturn #ShadowTransit #Astronomy #Astrophotography #StellarSnap #NightSky #PlanetaryAlignment

📸 Titan Shadow Transit

Every 15 years, Saturn’s rings appear edge-on from Earth. The view may be narrow, but it reveals rare transits of Saturn’s moons and their shadows.

In this image from July 18, Titan crosses Saturn’s face, casting a dark round shadow on its cloud tops.

📷 Volodymyr Andrienko

#Titan #Saturn #ShadowTransit #Astronomy #Astrophotography #StellarSnap #NightSky #PlanetaryAlignment

📸 Titan Shadow Transit

Every 15 years, Saturn’s rings appear edge-on from Earth. The view may be narrow, but it reveals rare transits of Saturn’s moons and their shadows.

In this image from July 18, Titan crosses Saturn’s face, casting a dark round shadow on its cloud tops.

📷 Volodymyr Andrienko

#Titan #Saturn #ShadowTransit #Astronomy #Astrophotography #StellarSnap #NightSky #PlanetaryAlignment

📸 Titan Shadow Transit

Every 15 years, Saturn’s rings appear edge-on from Earth. The view may be narrow, but it reveals rare transits of Saturn’s moons and their shadows.

In this image from July 18, Titan crosses Saturn’s face, casting a dark round shadow on its cloud tops.

📷 Volodymyr Andrienko

#Titan #Saturn #ShadowTransit #Astronomy #Astrophotography #StellarSnap #NightSky #PlanetaryAlignment

📸 Fireball over Cape San Blas

A fireball is a meteor so bright it can rival Venus or even the full Moon. These rare events burn through Earth's atmosphere, often leaving a smoky trail as they break apart.

This one was spotted last week from a deadwood beach in Cape San Blas, Florida.

📷 Jason Rice
#Fireball #Meteor #CapeSanBlas #BrightMeteor #NightSky #Astrophotography #StellarSnap #Astronomy

📸 Fireball over Cape San Blas

A fireball is a meteor so bright it can rival Venus or even the full Moon. These rare events burn through Earth's atmosphere, often leaving a smoky trail as they break apart.

This one was spotted last week from a deadwood beach in Cape San Blas, Florida.

📷 Jason Rice
#Fireball #Meteor #CapeSanBlas #BrightMeteor #NightSky #Astrophotography #StellarSnap #Astronomy

📸 Fireball over Cape San Blas

A fireball is a meteor so bright it can rival Venus or even the full Moon. These rare events burn through Earth's atmosphere, often leaving a smoky trail as they break apart.

This one was spotted last week from a deadwood beach in Cape San Blas, Florida.

📷 Jason Rice
#Fireball #Meteor #CapeSanBlas #BrightMeteor #NightSky #Astrophotography #StellarSnap #Astronomy

📸 Fireball over Cape San Blas

A fireball is a meteor so bright it can rival Venus or even the full Moon. These rare events burn through Earth's atmosphere, often leaving a smoky trail as they break apart.

This one was spotted last week from a deadwood beach in Cape San Blas, Florida.

📷 Jason Rice
#Fireball #Meteor #CapeSanBlas #BrightMeteor #NightSky #Astrophotography #StellarSnap #Astronomy

📸 A Double Detonation Supernova

Can a supernova explode twice? In SNR 0509-67.5, a white dwarf’s surface ignites first, triggering a second, full Type Ia supernova deep inside.

This remnant, captured by the Very Large Telescope, shows two shells that support the theory. But no one saw it 400 years ago — and its companion star is missing.

📷 ESO / P. Das et al. / NASA / Hubble

#Supernova #SNR0509 #TypeIa #Astronomy #Astrophotography #StellarSnap

📸 A Double Detonation Supernova

Can a supernova explode twice? In SNR 0509-67.5, a white dwarf’s surface ignites first, triggering a second, full Type Ia supernova deep inside.

This remnant, captured by the Very Large Telescope, shows two shells that support the theory. But no one saw it 400 years ago — and its companion star is missing.

📷 ESO / P. Das et al. / NASA / Hubble

#Supernova #SNR0509 #TypeIa #Astronomy #Astrophotography #StellarSnap

📸 A Double Detonation Supernova

Can a supernova explode twice? In SNR 0509-67.5, a white dwarf’s surface ignites first, triggering a second, full Type Ia supernova deep inside.

This remnant, captured by the Very Large Telescope, shows two shells that support the theory. But no one saw it 400 years ago — and its companion star is missing.

📷 ESO / P. Das et al. / NASA / Hubble

#Supernova #SNR0509 #TypeIa #Astronomy #Astrophotography #StellarSnap

📸 A Double Detonation Supernova

Can a supernova explode twice? In SNR 0509-67.5, a white dwarf’s surface ignites first, triggering a second, full Type Ia supernova deep inside.

This remnant, captured by the Very Large Telescope, shows two shells that support the theory. But no one saw it 400 years ago — and its companion star is missing.

📷 ESO / P. Das et al. / NASA / Hubble

#Supernova #SNR0509 #TypeIa #Astronomy #Astrophotography #StellarSnap

📸 Cat's Paw Nebula from JWST

This stunning nebula, also known as NGC 6334 or the Bear Claw, lies 5,700 light-years away in Scorpius. Captured in infrared by the James Webb Space Telescope, it reveals a turbulent stellar nursery where stars nearly 10 times the Sun’s mass are still forming.

📷 NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI

#CatsPawNebula #NGC6334 #JWST #NASA #InfraredAstronomy #Astrophotography #StellarSnap #Space #Scorpius

📸 Lunar Nearside

Why do we always see the same side of the Moon? 🌕
Because the Moon spins and orbits Earth at the same rate, one face is always turned toward us.

This detailed view is a mosaic made from 1,300 images taken by NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, revealing maria, craters, and highlands in sharp detail.

📷 NASA / GSFC / Arizona State Univ. / LRO
#LunarNearside #Moon #NASA #Astrophotography #Space #TidalLock #LRO #StellarSnap

📸 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

📸 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

📸 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

📸 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

📸 ISS Meets Saturn

On July 6, from Federal Way, Washington, the International Space Station briefly aligned with Saturn in a rare sky event. Captured in a stacked telescopic image, the ISS and Saturn appear close, but were actually 1.4 billion kilometers apart. Saturn’s brightness was enhanced to match the ISS, which was much closer and brighter in the sky.

📅 July 18, 2025
📷 Credit: A.J. Smadi

#ISS #Saturn #ISSSaturn #Astronomy #Astrophotography #NASA #APOD #StellarSnap

📸 ISS Meets Saturn

On July 6, from Federal Way, Washington, the International Space Station briefly aligned with Saturn in a rare sky event. Captured in a stacked telescopic image, the ISS and Saturn appear close, but were actually 1.4 billion kilometers apart. Saturn’s brightness was enhanced to match the ISS, which was much closer and brighter in the sky.

📅 July 18, 2025
📷 Credit: A.J. Smadi

#ISS #Saturn #ISSSaturn #Astronomy #Astrophotography #NASA #APOD #StellarSnap

📸 ISS Meets Saturn

On July 6, from Federal Way, Washington, the International Space Station briefly aligned with Saturn in a rare sky event. Captured in a stacked telescopic image, the ISS and Saturn appear close, but were actually 1.4 billion kilometers apart. Saturn’s brightness was enhanced to match the ISS, which was much closer and brighter in the sky.

📅 July 18, 2025
📷 Credit: A.J. Smadi

#ISS #Saturn #ISSSaturn #Astronomy #Astrophotography #NASA #APOD #StellarSnap

📸 ISS Meets Saturn

On July 6, from Federal Way, Washington, the International Space Station briefly aligned with Saturn in a rare sky event. Captured in a stacked telescopic image, the ISS and Saturn appear close, but were actually 1.4 billion kilometers apart. Saturn’s brightness was enhanced to match the ISS, which was much closer and brighter in the sky.

📅 July 18, 2025
📷 Credit: A.J. Smadi

#ISS #Saturn #ISSSaturn #Astronomy #Astrophotography #NASA #APOD #StellarSnap

📸 3I/ATLAS – a new interstellar visitor

Discovered July 1 by the ATLAS telescope in Chile, 3I/ATLAS is the third known object from outside our Solar System, after ʻOumuamua and Borisov. This comet, seen by Gemini North in Hawai‘i, has a visible coma and a steeply hyperbolic orbit—it will not return. It’s approaching the Sun, just inside Mars' orbit, but poses no threat to Earth.

📅 July 17, 2025
📷 Gemini Observatory / NOIRLab / NSF / K. Meech

#3IATLAS #Comet #APOD #Astronomy #NASA #StellarSnap

📸 3I/ATLAS – a new interstellar visitor

Discovered July 1 by the ATLAS telescope in Chile, 3I/ATLAS is the third known object from outside our Solar System, after ʻOumuamua and Borisov. This comet, seen by Gemini North in Hawai‘i, has a visible coma and a steeply hyperbolic orbit—it will not return. It’s approaching the Sun, just inside Mars' orbit, but poses no threat to Earth.

📅 July 17, 2025
📷 Gemini Observatory / NOIRLab / NSF / K. Meech

#3IATLAS #Comet #APOD #Astronomy #NASA #StellarSnap

📸 3I/ATLAS – a new interstellar visitor

Discovered July 1 by the ATLAS telescope in Chile, 3I/ATLAS is the third known object from outside our Solar System, after ʻOumuamua and Borisov. This comet, seen by Gemini North in Hawai‘i, has a visible coma and a steeply hyperbolic orbit—it will not return. It’s approaching the Sun, just inside Mars' orbit, but poses no threat to Earth.

📅 July 17, 2025
📷 Gemini Observatory / NOIRLab / NSF / K. Meech

#3IATLAS #Comet #APOD #Astronomy #NASA #StellarSnap

📸 3I/ATLAS – a new interstellar visitor

Discovered July 1 by the ATLAS telescope in Chile, 3I/ATLAS is the third known object from outside our Solar System, after ʻOumuamua and Borisov. This comet, seen by Gemini North in Hawai‘i, has a visible coma and a steeply hyperbolic orbit—it will not return. It’s approaching the Sun, just inside Mars' orbit, but poses no threat to Earth.

📅 July 17, 2025
📷 Gemini Observatory / NOIRLab / NSF / K. Meech

#3IATLAS #Comet #APOD #Astronomy #NASA #StellarSnap

📸 The Rosette Nebula from DECam
A cosmic bloom in Monoceros. This glowing nebula spans 100 light-years and cradles young stars in its heart. Captured in vivid detail by DECam in Chile.

📅 APOD – July 16, 2025
📷 Credit: CTIO, NOIRLab, DOE, NSF, AURA

#APOD #NASA #RosetteNebula #NGC2237 #DECam #NOIRLab #CTIO #Nebulae #StarFormation #Monoceros #Astrophotography #Astronomy #Space #StellarNursery #EmissionNebula #DeepSky #Telescope #CosmicBloom #Stars #Universe #StellarSnap

📸 The Rosette Nebula from DECam
A cosmic bloom in Monoceros. This glowing nebula spans 100 light-years and cradles young stars in its heart. Captured in vivid detail by DECam in Chile.

📅 APOD – July 16, 2025
📷 Credit: CTIO, NOIRLab, DOE, NSF, AURA

#APOD #NASA #RosetteNebula #NGC2237 #DECam #NOIRLab #CTIO #Nebulae #StarFormation #Monoceros #Astrophotography #Astronomy #Space #StellarNursery #EmissionNebula #DeepSky #Telescope #CosmicBloom #Stars #Universe #StellarSnap

📸 The Rosette Nebula from DECam
A cosmic bloom in Monoceros. This glowing nebula spans 100 light-years and cradles young stars in its heart. Captured in vivid detail by DECam in Chile.

📅 APOD – July 16, 2025
📷 Credit: CTIO, NOIRLab, DOE, NSF, AURA

#APOD #NASA #RosetteNebula #NGC2237 #DECam #NOIRLab #CTIO #Nebulae #StarFormation #Monoceros #Astrophotography #Astronomy #Space #StellarNursery #EmissionNebula #DeepSky #Telescope #CosmicBloom #Stars #Universe #StellarSnap