I just saw the moon

Let's hope it doesn't suck too hard. After all, less than 12 trillion miles away is pretty close, relatively speaking...

Currently on the rise over Freeport, ME (amazing weather lately):






Plus collected random stuff:

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Edit: Plus the usual collected tidbits thought worthy of only you, yes, YOU (and my daughter ):

The moon has set, the sun is up with nary a cloud in the sky... today I will focus more on "home":









Happy Bday, you big ol ball of Love and Hate!

macbill said:

Voyager 1 transmitting data again after Nasa remotely fixes 46-year-old probe

Engineers spent months working to repair link with Earth’s most distant spacecraft, says space agency

www.theguardian.com

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The fact that it is running on 1977 technology, less than 1mb of memory & these engineers figured out initial steps to reprogram it from 15 billion miles away (let alone that fact it is still functioning this many years later)
I mean - wow!

Jill NYC said:

The fact that it is running on 1977 technology, less than 1mb of memory & these engineers figured out initial steps to reprogram it from 15 billion miles away (let alone that fact it is still functioning this many years later)
I mean - wow!

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The famous picture “Pale Blue Dot” ... Earth captured 3.7 billions miles away from Voyager 1 in 1990. Simply an amazing little spacecraft continues on it's journey

Che Bella Luna

World Cup - Brazil, June 2014 ️

Moon and Smoke Rings from Mt. Etna

A jewel of the southern sky, the Great Carina Nebula is more modestly known as NGC 3372. One of our Galaxy's largest star forming regions, it spans over 300 light-years. Like the smaller, more northerly Great Orion Nebula, the Carina Nebula is easily visible to the unaided eye. But at a distance of 7,500 light-years it lies some 5 times farther away. This stunning telescopic view reveals remarkable details of the region's glowing filaments of interstellar gas and obscuring cosmic dust clouds. The Carina Nebula is home to young, extremely massive stars, including the still enigmatic variable Eta Carinae, a star with well over 100 times the mass of the Sun. Eta Carinae is the bright star above the central dark notch in this field and left of the dusty Keyhole Nebula (NGC 3324).


This wide-field view, created from images forming part of the Digitized Sky Survey 2, shows the rich star clouds in the constellation of Norma (the Carpenter’s Square) in our Milky Way galaxy. The beautiful nebula NGC 6164/6165, also known as the Dragon’s Egg, appears in the center of the image. (22MB image)


How did a star form this beautiful nebula? In the middle of emission nebula NGC 6164 is an unusually massive star. The central star has been compared to an oyster's pearl and an egg protected by the mythical sky dragons of Ara. The star, visible in the center of the featured image and catalogued as HD 148937, is so hot that the ultraviolet light it emits heats up gas that surrounds it. That gas was likely thrown off from the star previously, possibly the result of a gravitational interaction with a looping stellar companion. Expelled material might have been channeled by the magnetic field of the massive star, in all creating the symmetric shape of the bipolar nebula. NGC 6164 spans about four light years and is located about 3,600 light years away toward the southern constellation Norma.


Located in the picturesque southern constellation of Centaurus, the Gum 41 nebula takes up most of this image brought to you by the VLT Survey Telescope, hosted at ESO’s Paranal Observatory in Chile. Let’s take a closer look at this intricate structure.
Set against a colorful backdrop of stars, Gum 41 is a pleasantly symmetric example of a Strömgren sphere: a shell of hydrogen gas atoms glowing in rosy hues due to the radiation of the dazzling central star. While this star, called HD 100099, may appear to be one very bright object, it is actually thought to be two young, massive stars orbiting in such a tight embrace that they cannot be separated at the scale of this image.Gum 41 is also a member of a much larger region, affectionately called the Running Chicken Nebula. (17MB image)


@NYC_Frank The explosion is over, but the consequences continue. About eleven thousand years ago, a star in the constellation of Vela could be seen to explode, creating a strange point of light briefly visible to humans living near the beginning of recorded history. The outer layers of the star crashed into the interstellar medium, driving a shock wave that is still visible today. The featured image captures some of that filamentary and gigantic shock in visible light. As gas flies away from the detonated star, it decays and reacts with the interstellar medium, producing light in many different colors and energy bands. Remaining at the center of the Vela Supernova Remnant is a pulsar, a star as dense as nuclear matter that spins around more than ten times in a single second.

Big zoom available

I captured the Eye of Sauron 52 million light-years from us​

https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/1cfcu0v

Happy Monday, People...! The moon's on the rise and it's already beautiful out, should hit 70F today with plenty of ☀! Some of the best weather of the year!

Moments ago:

Note: slightly left of center...



NGC 6302: The "Butterfly Nebula":

Zoom into the Horsehead Nebula

Space Laser Data Link?
Hey, grain of salt -- it's the NY Post!

Today's start is gray and soggy, but this was yesterday:



A little later:

The opposite horizon at the same time:

Here are a few more dates you might wanna look up on :

Plus:


Enjoy your weekend, everyone!

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Explaining The Universe on Instagram: "Follow (us) @ExplainingTheUniverse to see more posts that are @ExplainingTheUniverse 🔭 Because the solar system is in constant motion, the distance between Earth and Uranus changes daily. The closest the two ge

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Bologna said:

New telescope images reveal ghostly ‘God’s Hand’ in Milky Way reaching across the cosmos | CNN

The Dark Energy Camera captured a rarely seen celestial phenomenon in action: a cosmic cloud called “God’s Hand,” which appears to reach out for a spiral galaxy.

amp.cnn.com

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Shai-Hulud!