Comet Neowise over Lebanon, captured on 7th July, 2020 by Maroun Habib. Comet Neowise became one of the few naked-eye objects of the 21st century.
Saturn is nestling close to Jupiter this week, in an event known as the Great Conjunction that occurs regularly, aligning these two gas giants every twenty years or so. Skywatchers can catch this once in a decades cosmic marriage in the early predawn hours.
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IC 1805 – The Heart Nebula, taken on September the 11th, 2019
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The Pillars of Creation at the centre of M16 or the Eagle Nebula
Credits: NASA, ESA and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)
Our home galaxy – The Milky Way above Serengeti , photographed by Chris Tanner
Photo Credit & Copyright : Chris Tanner via Flickr
M106/NGC 4258 Nebula in X-ray, radio, infrared and optical light
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Saturn and Dione , 2005
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The "ice giants" Uranus and Neptune appear to glow red-orange in new photos taken using Hawaii's Keck Observatory. The pictures show Uranus' rings and several moons, as well as Neptune's largest moon, Triton.
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The evening began with a beautiful sunset:
...though pretty clouds meant Jupiter and Saturn's closest dance was a little fuzzy:
They'd traded places and moved much closer than on Saturday:
This longer Saturday exposure shows Saturn's biggest moon, Titan (arrow), and all four of Jupiter's Galilean moons:
...and here's Jupiter's moons plus Titan (arrow; another arrow points out Amalthea hugging its parent world) tonight:
Happy Great Conjunction Day!
Variable star RS Puppis, about ten times more massive than our Sun and fifteen times more luminous.
Image Data : NASA/ESA/HUBBLE
Copyright & Mixing : Rogellio Bernal Andreo
How our neighbouring Andromeda galaxy will appear from Earth, approaching our galaxy Milky Way over a span of several billion years into the future
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