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Depictions of two kinds of dust in space: At left the pyramid-shaped glow of Zodiacal Light caused by sunlight reflecting off interplanetary dust in the inner solar system from comets and meteoroids, while at right is the band of the bright Milky Way, made of stars in our galaxy. But along it lie dark lanes of interstellar dust made of carbon compounds made in the atmospheres of stars and dispersed into the Galaxy.
This is from the Quailway Cottage near Portal, Arizona, on December 14, 2017, looking west to the Chiricahua Mountains of southeast Arizona.
The Summer Triangle stars are setting into the west with Deneb at top, while Vega is at right. Altair is lowest at centre.
The sky is a single 30-second exposure, while the ground is a mean combined stack of 8 30-second exposures to smooth noise, all at f/2.5 with the 14mm lens and Canon 6D MkII at ISO 6400. Not tracked â these were part of a 350-frame time-lapse.
Free time constraints and adverse weather conditions almost disabled to take a decent photo of the C/2020 F3 NEOWISE comet. In 2 days it will not be visible any more....and it takes another 6766 (!!!) years until it enters into our Solar System and can be spotted again!
So, I am a lucky guy. :)
The photo was taken in the hills, in an area surrounded by forests clearing the majority of the light pollution coming from the villages and smaller cities a few kilometres away.
Per astro shooters the best time to capture the C/2020 F3 NEOWISE was between 22:00-23:30 on this day, below the Big Dipper- they were absolutely right. Had a clear sky with a few patches of clouds but these don't ruin the image but make it more interesting. The orange shade is composed by the remaining light of the sun set 1h ago. Used my astro shooting ultrawide-angle lens (Samyang 24mm f1.4) to gather enough light to show the stars and the comet and decrease digital noise. The camera was in full manual mode, manual focus with Live View mode at 16x magnification to the brightest star.
Shutter speed: 20 sec, Aperture: f 2. ISO 1600.
The comet was barely visible to the naked eye but this great lens 'saw' much more.
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LL928-09 Interstellar Large Transport; Original classic space ship. The ship got the first prize of Japanese Space Ship Competition 2022 on twitter.
On Helhis : STARGAZER / EXILE / AVI-GLAM / SPYRALLE / HELHIS SHAPES, see more on the blog & direct links :
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The photo above is a single 30 minute (1810 seconds) exposure. A pre-shot at 30 seconds, ISO 3200, wide open aperture was taken, and I did the math to lengthen the exposure to 30 minutes without blowing out the scene. It turned out to be pretty decent, in my opinion. I also did some light painting on the foreground as the moon had already set behind Mount Baker.
Night sky above Purmamarca, Argentina.
Title borrowed from Pink Floyds's seminal piece Interstellar Overdrive.
My camera has a penchant for sitting in front of beautiful places on this earth… I love going along with it. Joyce tags along, too, sometimes. On our recent trip to New York, the camera and I got to tag along with her. Niagara and the surrounding area were stompin’ grounds for Joyce when she attended nearby Roberts Wesleyan College to begin her career in nursing. She decided that path because she was fascinated with how her grade school nurse cared for people, which is something that she, too, is quite good at. It’s evident in how she cares for me. I wanted to be a fighter pilot… but glasses. I have, on occasion, gotten the “fighter” part right.
Horseshoe Falls, part of the entirety of Niagara Falls, is a natural separation between America and Canada, better seen from the Canadian side. This very spot was a favorite for Joyce back in the day… or night, as it may be. I can well understand that. Though taken on a dark and stormy night (where’s Snoopy?), the brilliant lighting on the falls made the natural blue green color of the water shine through. It looks very much like a boiling cauldron with steam rising. The evident spectrum in the mist, however, makes me mindful of the Pillars of Creation, bubbles of interstellar gas and dust in the Eagle Nebula, in the Serpens constellation, for some reason. It’s difficult to get a sense of scale with this image… if you will take note of the bright green patch with evident lighting just above the falls on the lefthand side, those are full-size streetlights and full-grown trees at the overlook on the American side.
I found this, and other places along our path in the 5 days we were there, quite mesmerizing, not just in the beauty of the place, but in how these places shaped the one that I love. This picture carries a little more meaning in that respect.
On a long journey through space and not returning for another 8000 years or so!
Comet Neowise, viewed from the central southern UK at around 11.30pm, only just visible to the naked eye but viewable through binoculars and thankfully shows up without boosting the ISO too much in camera.
Shot with the Tamron 70-300vc on a tripod
"After Ice is a documentary made by researchers at the University of Iceland Research Centre at Hornafjörður and the University of Dundee in Scotland. The researchers use the latest technology to shed light on the great impact that a warming climate has had on the melting of glaciers in Iceland. The documentary was released on March 11, 2021."
She sat close to the open window so she could have a cigarette without filling the entire room with smoke. She felt tired but held her posture and kept her thoughts internalised. Ever glamorous, Interstellar✨
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Dollzone Jocelyn
Are we the aliens on an alien planet?
265/365
oh yeah, I've changed my instagram account name to
simon.mccheung
I've posted the complete series and it's story on Bored Panda
oder wie man einen Film verschießt
Kodak T-Max 400
Fehlbelichtet
Pushentwickelt
Zerkratzt
und Netzmittelgefoltert
das ist Kunst, das kann nicht weg!
Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS – only the third such object discovered after 1I/ʻOumuamua and 2I/Borisov – glows with a diffuse green coma in this near true-color image recorded from Lanciano, Italy. Captured in the early hours of 30 November 2025, while the comet was still only about 23 degrees above the horizon, the view follows this true visitor from beyond the Solar System as it sweeps along a hyperbolic trajectory back into interstellar space. The comet will make its closest approach to Earth on 19 December 2025, at a distance of about 270 million kilometers, remaining a telescopic target for observers on our planet.
The image combines 30 one-minute RGB exposures obtained between 03:12 and 04:52 UT (04:12–05:52 CET). Tracking and registration were performed on the background stars; the final frame shows the appearance of 3I/ATLAS with respect to the star field at the time of the first exposure. The data were processed and photometrically calibrated to produce accurate RGB color while preserving the faint outer coma and surrounding star field.
Technical details:
Date: 30 November 2025
Time: 03:12–04:52 UT (04:12–05:52 CET)
Location: Lanciano, Italy
Telescope: MEADE LX200 ACF 10"
Mount: 10Micron GM2000 hps II
Camera: QHYCCD QHY268M
Filters: RGB (30 × 60 s per channel)
Total exposure time: 90 minutes
Processing: PixInsight
Image Credit: Antonio Ferretti and Attilio Bruzzone
Interstellar Hourglass (2158)
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When I was planning my trip to Utah, everything revolved around Goblin Valley. Its bizarre hoodoos were the attraction to me. The night I went, it was absurdly windy during the day. I drove there anyway from Caineville, hoping for the best. I was lucky. The night was calm and peaceful, and I had the entire valley to myself for the entire evening. This was my favorite evening of the trip, and I felt focused and creative. I illuminated the odd hoodoos with a handheld flashlight from several angles while the camera shutter was open. This was taken near a full moon in a place beautifully free of light pollution, with lots of stars visible even despite the full moon.
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Nikon D750/14-24mm f/2.8 lens. 30 seconds f/8 ISO 1600. 2018-06-28 00:47.
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My neglect of the under currents have burst my bubble.
I don’t understand and I’m unfamiliar.
I’m back to the same place where I first crashed.
268/365
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Gaia’s all-sky view of our Milky Way Galaxy and neighbouring galaxies, based on measurements of nearly 1.7 billion stars. The map shows the total brightness and colour of stars observed by the ESA satellite in each portion of the sky between July 2014 and May 2016.
Brighter regions indicate denser concentrations of especially bright stars, while darker regions correspond to patches of the sky where fewer bright stars are observed. The colour representation is obtained by combining the total amount of light with the amount of blue and red light recorded by Gaia in each patch of the sky.
The bright horizontal structure that dominates the image is the Galactic plane, the flattened disc that hosts most of the stars in our home Galaxy. In the middle of the image, the Galactic centre appears vivid and teeming with stars.
Darker regions across the Galactic plane correspond to foreground clouds of interstellar gas and dust, which absorb the light of stars located further away, behind the clouds. Many of these conceal stellar nurseries where new generations of stars are being born.
Sprinkled across the image are also many globular and open clusters – groupings of stars held together by their mutual gravity, as well as entire galaxies beyond our own.
The two bright objects in the lower right of the image are the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds, two dwarf galaxies orbiting the Milky Way.
In small areas of the image where no colour information was available – to the lower left of the Galactic centre, to the upper left of the Small Magellanic Cloud, and in the top portion of the map – an equivalent greyscale value was assigned.
The second Gaia data release was made public on 25 April 2018 and includes the position and brightness of almost 1.7 billion stars, and the parallax, proper motion and colour of more than 1.3 billion stars. It also includes the radial velocity of more than seven million stars, the surface temperature of more than 100 million stars, and the amount of dust intervening between us and of 87 million stars. There are also more than 500 000 variable sources, and the position of 14 099 known Solar System objects – most of them asteroids – included in the release.
Acknowledgement: Gaia Data Processing and Analysis Consortium (DPAC); A. Moitinho / A. F. Silva / M. Barros / C. Barata, University of Lisbon, Portugal; H. Savietto, Fork Research, Portugal.
Credits: ESA/Gaia/DPAC