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This image from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope features an H II region in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), a satellite galaxy of our Milky Way. This nebula, known as N79, is a region of interstellar atomic hydrogen that is ionised, captured here by Webb’s Mid-InfraRed Instrument (MIRI).
N79 is a massive star-forming complex spanning roughly 1630 light-years in the generally unexplored southwest region of the LMC. N79 is typically regarded as a younger version of 30 Doradus (also known as the Tarantula Nebula), another of Webb’s recent targets. Research suggests that N79 has a star formation efficiency exceeding that of 30 Doradus by a factor of two over the past 500 000 years.
This particular image centres on one of the three giant molecular cloud complexes, dubbed N79 South (S1 for short). The distinct ‘starburst’ pattern surrounding this bright object is a series of diffraction spikes. All telescopes which use a mirror to collect light, as Webb does, have this form of artifact which arises from the design of the telescope. In Webb's case, the six largest starburst spikes appear because of the hexagonal symmetry of Webb's 18 primary mirror segments. Patterns like these are only noticeable around very bright, compact objects, where all the light comes from the same place. Most galaxies, even though they appear very small to our eyes, are darker and more spread out than a single star, and therefore do not show this pattern.
At the longer wavelengths of light captured by MIRI, Webb’s view of N79 showcases the region’s glowing gas and dust. This is because mid-infrared light is able to reveal what is happening deeper inside the clouds (while shorter wavelengths of light would be absorbed or scattered by dust grains in the nebula). Some still-embedded protostars also appear in this field.
Star-forming regions such as this are of interest to astronomers because their chemical composition is similar to that of the gigantic star-forming regions observed when the Universe was only a few billion years old and star formation was at its peak. Star-forming regions in our Milky Way galaxy are not producing stars at the same furious rate as N79, and have a different chemical composition. Webb is now providing astronomers the opportunity to compare and contrast observations of star formation in N79 with the telescope’s deep observations of distant galaxies in the early Universe.
These observations of N79 are part of a Webb programme that is studying the evolution of the circumstellar discs and envelopes of forming stars over a wide range in mass and at different evolutionary stages. Webb’s sensitivity will enable scientists to detect for the first time the planet-forming dust discs around stars of similar mass to that of our Sun at the distance of the LMC.
This image includes 7.7-micron light shown in blue, 10 microns in cyan, 15 microns in yellow, and 21 microns in red (770W, 1000W, 1500W, and 2100W filters, respectively).
[Image description: A bright young star within a colourful nebula. The star is identifiable as the brightest spot in the image, surrounded by six large spokes of light that cross the image. A number of other bright spots can also be seen in the clouds, which are shown in great detail as layers of colourful wisps.]
Credits: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, O. Nayak, M. Meixner
Lanzarote. Canary Islands.
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These eerie, dark pillar-like structures are columns of cool interstellar hydrogen gas and dust that are also incubators for new stars. The pillars protrude from the interior wall of a dark molecular cloud like stalagmites from the floor of a cavern. They are part of the "Eagle Nebula" (also called M16 -- the 16th object in Charles Messier's 18th century catalog of "fuzzy" objects that aren't comets), a nearby star-forming region 7,000 light-years away in the constellation Serpens. Ultraviolet light is responsible for illuminating the convoluted surfaces of the columns and the ghostly streamers of gas boiling away from their surfaces, producing the dramatic visual effects that highlight the three dimensional nature of the clouds. The tallest pillar (left) is about a light-year long from base to tip. As the pillars themselves are slowly eroded away by the ultraviolet light, small globules of even denser gas buried within the pillars are uncovered. These globules have been dubbed "EGGs." EGGs is an acronym for "Evaporating Gaseous Globules," but it is also a word that describes what these objects are. Forming inside at least some of the EGGs are embryonic stars, stars that abruptly stop growing when the EGGs are uncovered and they are separated from the larger reservoir of gas from which they were drawing mass. Eventually, the stars themselves emerge from the EGGs as the EGGs themselves succumb to photoevaporation. The picture was taken on April 1, 1995 with the Hubble Space Telescope Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2. The color image is constructed from three separate images taken in the light of emission from different types of atoms. Red shows emission from singly-ionized sulfur atoms. Green shows emission from hydrogen. Blue shows light emitted by doubly- ionized oxygen atoms.
Credit: NASA, ESA, STScI, and J. Hester and P. Scowen (Arizona State University)
Image Number: PR95-44A
Date: April 1, 1995
Forgot to take pics right in town. :-( but visited City Centre, Anne Summers, New Look & vue cinema (interstellar)
Sparkle in Swansea November
Pity about the sun in my eyes..
NASA’s Psyche observed interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS over the course of eight hours on Sept. 8 and 9, when the comet was about 33 million miles (53 million kilometers) from the spacecraft. Captured by the mission’s multispectral imager, these observations help astronomers refine the trajectory of 3I/ATLAS.
Psyche’s multispectral imager instrument comprises a pair of identical cameras equipped with filters and telescopic lenses to photograph the metal-rich asteroid Psyche’s surface in different wavelengths of light. While comet 3I/ATLAS was distant from the spacecraft during these observations, the imager’s sensitivity to the comet’s reflected sunlight meant that the mission could precisely track the object. Observations by the mission have also provided more information about 3I/ATLAS’s faint coma, or cloud of gas and dust, surrounding its nucleus — the central frozen core of ice and rock.
As shown in this annotated composite image, NASA’s Psyche mission acquired these four observations of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS over the course of eight hours on Sept. 8 and 9, 2025, when the comet was about 33 million miles (53 million kilometers) from the spacecraft.
Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU
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On March 18, NASA’s IMAP (Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe) arrived at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, for thermal vacuum testing at the X-ray and Cryogenic Facility, which simulates the harsh conditions of space.
The IMAP mission is a modern-day celestial cartographer that will map the solar system by studying the heliosphere, a giant bubble created by the Sun’s solar wind that surrounds our solar system and protects it from harmful interstellar radiation.
In this image, the IMAP mission was loaded into NASA Marshall’s XRCF thermal vacuum chamber where the spacecraft will undergo testing.
Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/Princeton/Ed Whitman
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Interstellar cruiser with support craft
This was my contribution to BrickCon 2010
166 studs L X 60 studs W
DkBlue + DkBley + Sand Green
I am very happy to present the second image in which these interstellar shells can be seen at all, and at the same time, it is the first photo to show the shells so clearly thanks to the long exposure time.
Thanks to several clear nights in the fall, I was able to collect nearly 39.5 hours of narrowband data with the RASA at f/2, along with an additional hour of RGB for the stars. The processing was certainly challenging, but I managed to bring out many details in the OIII structures and the surrounding H-alpha clouds.
A few details about the objects in the image:
The bluish filaments in the center are listed in Simbad as “interstellar shells” with the designation GSH 122+02-77. These are not direct supernova remnants but rather part of the interstellar medium (ISM)—low-density material (mostly gas) that exists between stars. Stellar winds and nearby supernovae can interact with this material, forming irregular shells. The neighboring Wolf-Rayet star HD 4004 (WR1) could possibly be responsible, although there are no definitive research results on this yet.
In the upper left, you can see Sh2-181 with a pronounced OIII shell, while Sh2-175, a small emission nebula, is located on the right.
Celestron RASA 8 400mm f/2
Celestron Motorfocus
EQ6-R Pro
Camera 1 (OSC): ZWO ASI 2600 MC Pro (Gain 100, Offset 18, -10°)
RGB (Stars): 65 × 60″ (1h 5′)
Camera 2 (Mono): TS 2600 MP (Gain 100, Offset 200, -10°)
Baader H-alpha Highspeed Ultra-Narrowband 3.5nm Filter): 700 × 120″ (23h 20‘)
Baader OIII Highspeed Ultra-Narrowband 4nm Filter): 483 × 120″ (16h 6‘)
Total: 40h 31‘
Bortle 5 (19.50 SQM)
N.I.N.A., Guiding: ASI 120MM & PHD2
Astropixelprocessor, Photoshop, Pixinsight
This frames the colourful complex of bright and dark nebulas in southern Perseus to northern Taurus. At top is the magenta California Nebula, NGC 1499,a bright emission nebula. At bottom is the famous Pleiades star cluster, Messier 45, embedded in clouds of interstellar dust. The young hot stars light up the dust clouds it is passing through, so they glow blue as a reflection nebula.
Between is a mass of dark dusty nebulas, here glowing dimly in yellow or warm brown light without any bright stars embedded to light them up blue.
At right of centre and to the right of the bright blue star Zeta Persei is the Perseus Molecular Cloud surrounding the IC 348 reflection nebula, and extending out to the round reflection nebula NGC 1333 at the right edge. Below it is a smaller reflection nebula, van den Bergh 16. The dark nebulas in this cloud are catalogued as Barnard 1 through 5, so the first entries in E.E. Barnard's Catalogue of dark nebulas.
At the left edge above centre is the small cyan-green dot of the Crystal Ball Nebula, NGC 1514, a planetary nebula in Taurus. tiny on this scale.
Some high haze drifting through in some frames added the natural star glows.
Technical:
This is a stack of 36 x 90-second exposures through the Canon RF135mm lens at f/2 and on the astro-modified Canon R at ISO 800.
The lens was equipped with a mild broadband URTH Night filter, to reduce the effects of airglow. The camera was on the Star Adventurer GTi equatorial mount, tracked, but not autoguided. Nebulosity brought out with Lumenzia luminosity masks and Photokemi actions and Nik Color EFX Detail Extractor filter.
Taken September 23, 2025 at the Southern Alberta Star Party in the Cypress Hills, a very dark site.
A visually striking collection of interstellar gas and dust is the focus of this week's Hubble Picture of the Week. Named RCW 7, the nebula is located just over 5300 light-years from Earth in the constellation Puppis.
Nebulae are areas of space that are rich in the raw material needed to form new stars. Under the influence of gravity, parts of these molecular clouds collapse until they coalesce into protostars, surrounded by spinning discs of leftover gas and dust. In the case of RCW 7, the protostars forming here are particularly massive, giving off strongly ionising radiation and fierce stellar winds that have transformed it into what is known as a H II region.
H II regions are filled with hydrogen ions — where H I refers to a normal hydrogen atom, H II is hydrogen that has lost its electron. The ultraviolet radiation from the massive protostars excites the hydrogen, causing it to emit light and giving this nebula its soft pinkish glow. Here Hubble is studying a particular massive protostellar binary named IRAS 07299-1651, still in its glowing cocoon of gas in the curling clouds towards the top of the nebula. To expose this star and its siblings, this image was captured using the Wide Field Camera 3 in near-infrared light. The massive protostars here are brightest in ultraviolet light, but they emit plenty of infrared light which can pass through much of the gas and dust around them and be seen by Hubble. Many of the other, larger-looking stars in this image are not part of the nebula, but sit between it and our Solar System.
The creation of an H II region marks the beginning of the end for a molecular cloud. Over only a few million years, the radiation and winds from the massive stars gradually disperse the gas — even more so as the most massive stars come to the end of their lives in supernova explosions. Only a fraction of the gas will be incorporated into new stars in this nebula, with the rest being spread throughout the galaxy to eventually form new molecular clouds.
[Image Description: Clouds of gas and dust with many stars. The clouds form a flat blue background towards the bottom, and become more thick and smoky towards the top. They are lit on one side by stars in the nebula. A thick arc of gas and dust reaches around from the top, where it is brightly lit by many stars in and around it, to the bottom where it is dark and obscuring. Other large stars lie between the clouds and the viewer.]
Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, J. Tan (Chalmers University & University of Virginia), R. Fedriani (Institute for Astrophysics of Andalusia)
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Although I have yet to watch interstellar, knowing that it is shot on film is enough to get me exited. The cinematography looks absolutely amazing. This satellite dish and the trees reminded me of the films feel, and so I tried to capture it as tonally matched as I could.
Thanks again to the FPP for making great film available at the most affordable price around. This is from my first roll of Kodak Portra 800 I ordered from them.
Interstellar freighter with 2 fighter escorts. 195 studs in length. Each 'donut' is 62 studs in diameter.
IT'S TIME!!!! Hallow Manor has officially opened its gates to the grid! Come explore the grounds and hunts for the special items that are scattered all around. Hallow Manor is hosted by Silly Llama Productions has opened its doors on Friday the 13th (10/13) and will end just after Halloween ends (11/1). This year's Hallow Manor Sponsors are: 718, Amadeus, Aris Aris B&W, Bespoke, Cinphul, Deadly Pixels, Go&See, Hexposed, Insomnia Angel, Madame Noir, Mea Tenebra, Mignonne, REPULSE, RFYRE, Sass, Short Leash, Simply Shelby, TAOX TATTOO, VANNIES, & What's Lost Spirits.
Be sure to be on the look-out for all the treats, but be careful with the tricks. They will be hidden all throughout the Manor with prices ranging from 0L - 25L. Let this page be your special guide, it will help you know which you will encounter on your trek through Hallow Manor.
Check out the shopping gallery & participating designers list to stay updated on all everything to do with the shopping event and hunt. Feel Free to join the Silly Llama Update Group as well. You should also join the Silly Llama Squad Discord server to join in on discussions and get updates on all things Silly Llama.
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The Little Bat - Kumo Dress (10L Hunt Item)
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★ Reborn & Reborn Waifu
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Sass - Xaria Boots
★Gen X
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✤ Hud Includes 28 color options for the boots and accents.
Vannies - Fiorella Pantyhose
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The Colonial Viper could not stay alone in the interstellar space.
So here is the Cylon Raider UCS, scaled to fit the Colonial Viper.
The model is made of 3253 genuine LEGO parts, for a total length of 66,5cm (83,1 studs) and a width of 45,0cm (56,3studs).
Custom lighting provided by Brickstuff (www.brickstuff.com/) and UCS sticker by Ultimate Collector Stickers (www.ultimatecollectorstickers.co.uk/).
Instructions are available starting Feb. 2nd 2018 (326 pages pdf, with fully detailed step-by-step instructions).
Part lists for the Raider and its stand are available here:
Raider: rebrickable.com/users/davdup/lists/20658/
Stand: rebrickable.com/users/davdup/lists/20712/
Enjoy!
David
"Everybody get up it's time to slam now
We got a real jam goin' down
Welcome to the Space Jam
Here's your chance, do your dance at the Space Jam
Alright....
Wave your hands in the air if you feel fine
We're gonna take it into overtime
Welcome to the Space Jam
Here's your chance, do your dance at the Space Jam
Alright..."
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BeSpoke - Poppy – Body + - Mushroom Cape Hat + Leaves + necklace
No official post but the discord post: ”New Release at Fantasy Faire 2025!
Meet Poppy, a whimsical fantasy full-body avatar by BeSpoke — debuting exclusively at Fantasy Faire, opening April 17th
Custom mesh head & body
Includes vibrant skin tones
Perfect for fantasy, fae, and floral roleplay
Compatible with BeSpoke add-ons & future releases
Find us in the Fairelands and bring Poppy to life!”
BeSpoke - Remi - Head (EVO X)
No official post but the discord post: “Introducing REMI – Fantasy Alien Head & Skins
Launching exclusively at Fantasy Faire 2025!
A sleek, otherworldly head designed to fit the Poppy body
Comes with a fatpack of unique fantasy full body skins
EVOX head | SLUV body
Made for alien, sci-fi, and whimsical RP looks
Beam into the Fairelands and discover a whole new species with BeSpoke!”
AERTH:
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[AERTH] Petalis
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[AERTH] Lotus Markings
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Darkblue EVOX
BOM/Tattoos/Makeup:
[HEXUMBRA] Lilith - Eye Makeup - Soulless
[POUT!] Agatha Blusher - Evo X
[POUT!] SnowFlaked Blush - Blush ONLY *NO Flakes (Evo X)
[POUT!] Stellar Celleste - Stars ONLY 75% (Evo X)
Arkhive :: "Aine" - Fae Eyes - Frost (Light Blue)
Other:
::Static:: Elst Expanse
[]Trap[] & :[P]: - Zinnia Hair unrigged
[]Trap[] & :[P]: - Zinnia Hair brows unrigged
Cabin fever + getting a little antsy waiting for my storage array to arrive to get the 2012-2014 stuff back up and running soon = some random light painting, inspired by the movie Interstellar...
a modern homage to the classic space 6870 space probe launcher. modified from 60431 space explorer rover and 60430 interstellar spaceship
FriendSHIP One (FS-1) is Planet HeartLake's first interstellar starship. Designed as an exploration vessel, FS-1 is a mobile habitat capable of carrying upwards of 40 Friends for years at a time! FS-1 contains a small assortment of defensive fighters and exploratory vessels - they are maintained and launched from the Pink Deck.
The ship consists of four decks:
Deck 1 - AKA Rainbow deck - contains the galley and crew / hibernation quarters (not built (yet))
Deck 2 - AKA Lime Deck - contains the engine room and maintenance areas. Most the ships repairs and routine maintenance are done here (Built by Ricecracker)
Deck 3 - AKA Azure Deck - contains the communications center and the science/medical labs. The bulk of the ships personnel work on this deck- plotting out the FS-1's flight path or inspecting any specimens they may encounter.
Deck 4 - AKA Pink Deck - contains the flight deck and ship hanger.
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Built for the LEGO Store (Fairview) display window - this has been a long time request by the store employees.
Built from roughly 6 drum sets,3 salons, 2 vets, 1 convertables, 2 stables, 2 tree houses, a oliva's house and some random grab bags...
I'm sick of friends :P