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When astronomers see something in the universe that at first glance seems like one-of-a-kind, it's bound to stir up a lot of excitement and attention. Enter comet 2I/Borisov. This mysterious visitor from the depths of space is the first identified comet to arrive here from another star. We don't know from where or when the comet started heading toward our Sun, but it won't hang around for long. The Sun's gravity is slightly deflecting its trajectory, but can't capture it because of the shape of its orbit and high velocity of about 100 thousand miles per hour.
Telescopes around the world have been watching the fleeting visitor. NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has provided the sharpest views as the comet skirts by our Sun. Since October the space telescope has been following the comet like a sports photographer following horses as they speed around a racetrack. Hubble revealed that the heart of the comet, a loose agglomeration of ices and dust particles, is likely no more than about 3,200 feet across, about the length of nine football fields. Though comet Borisov is the first of its kind, no doubt there are many other comet vagabonds out there, plying the space between stars. Astronomers will eagerly be on the lookout for the next mysterious visitor from far beyond.
The comet appears in front of a distant background spiral galaxy (left). The galaxy's bright central core is smeared because Hubble was tracking the comet. Comet Borisov was approximately 203 million miles from Earth in this image.
Read more: go.nasa.gov/34bLzhn
Credit: NASA, ESA and D. Jewitt (UCLA)
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Are we the aliens on an alien planet?
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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
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
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Kodak T-Max 400
Fehlbelichtet
Pushentwickelt
Zerkratzt
und Netzmittelgefoltert
das ist Kunst, das kann nicht weg!
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.
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I've posted the complete series and it's story on Bored Panda
Messier 86 (also known as M86 or NGC 4406) is an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Virgo. Messier 86 is linked by several filaments of ionized gas to the severely disrupted spiral galaxy NGC 4438 (on the right side of my image), indicating that M86 may have stripped some gas and interstellar dust from the spiral. Messier 86 has a rich array of globular clusters, with a total number of around 3,800. Its halo also has a number of stellar streams interpreted as remnants of dwarf galaxies that have been disrupted and absorbed by this galaxy. (ref: Wikipedia).
Tech Specs: Meade 12” LX-90, Celestron CGEM-DX pier mounted, ZWO ASI071mc-Pro, Antares Focal Reducer, 67 x 60 second at -10C, 30 darks and 30 flats, guided using a ZWO ASI290MC and Orion 60mm guide scope. Captured using Sequence Generator Pro and processed using PixInsight. Image date: April 5, 2021. Location: The Dark Side Observatory, Weatherly, PA, USA (Bortle Class 4).
Processing old Astrophotography data with new techniques during this period at home.
A starless 3nm Narrowband Hydrogen-Alpha (Hα) study of the dust and gas in the Tarantula Nebula (NGC 2070), situated in the Large Magellanic Cloud (one of the Milky Way's satellite Galaxies).
The Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) is one of the irregular satellite dwarf Galaxies of the Milky Way Galaxy, that is among the closest Galaxies to Earth. There is also a Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), both discovered by Magellan. The Magellanic Clouds are visible from the Southern Hemisphere with the naked eye.
The LMC contains the most active starburst region known in the Local Group of Galaxies. The Local Group comprises more than 54 Galaxies (mostly dwarf Galaxies). The three largest members of the group (in descending order) are the Andromeda Galaxy, the Milky Way Galaxy and the Triangulum Galaxy.
“The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff.” ― Carl Sagan, Cosmos.
Wavelength of light:
H-Alpha line 656nm (3nm bandwidth).
Gear:
William Optics Star 71mm f/4.9 Imaging Refractor Telescope.
QHY163M camera sensor cooled to -20°C.
Calibration frames: Bias, Darks and Flats.
SGP Mosaic and Framing Wizard.
PlaneWave PlateSolve 2 via SGP.
Pre-Processing and Linear workflow in PixInsight,
Straton and Photoshop.
Integration time:
22 hours.
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My last project of the 2022, based on two nights in Negev desert during July 27 and September 22. I had plans to dedicate one extra night to capture H-alpha and Oxygen channels but it's currently put indefinitely on hold.
This star field of the Milky Way is rich not only in stars but also in a mixture of dark and bright nebulae, Herbig–Haro objects, few small emission nebulae and open star clusters (check to see attached annotated image showing location of these objects).
What looks like one regular star has a secret:
"A variable star V1331 Cyg harbors HH389 object and lights up the small reflection nebula around it (GN 20.59.5.01) forming an arc around the variable star. The reflection nebula is the dust left from the creation of the star that's lit by the star it created. As such it takes on pretty much the color of the illuminating star. Radiation pressure from the star likely created the arc as it pushed away the dusty cocoon of its birth. The star seems out of center indicating this dust may be piling up at a shock front as it moves through the very dusty interstellar medium in this part of the galaxy."
QHY367c/FSQ130-ED/A-P Mach1 CP4
244x180s (12.2 hours)
Image and processing © Leo Shatz
Text credits: Rick J @ Cloudy Nights
Space Engine : SRWE Hotsampling @ In-game Free Camera Mode (freecam, fov, timestop and exposure, 32xMSAA, Mods)
Digitally removed the hanging wires from this gleaming Starship Enterprise-like light in Milan, Italy.
One of the most absurd places where I found myself pitching my tent.
Cadin della neve, Cadini di Misurina, Dolomiti.
The peculiar thing about this spot - especially from a nighttime scenic point of view - is that this valley points south, therefore on a clear starry night it is possible to admire the Great Rift (of the Milky Way) nestled between the mountains in all its splendor.
Views "almost" from another world. Thank God are in this one, so we can make full experience of the wonder of this planet!
YouTube channel “Organo Santuario della Consolata”
YouTube channel “ALPS pictures & tales”
Instagram @roberto.bertero
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BerlinAndOut offre visite guidate a Berlino, in alcuni dei suoi musei, a Potsdam e al campo di concentramento di Sachsenhausen ai visitatori italiani in visita nella capitale tedesca.
Il loro sito contiene un blog con interessanti riflessioni sulla città (www.berlinandout.eu/).
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la colonna sonora di questa raccolta - Interstellar overdrive dei Pink Flyd - la trovate qui
I'm a firm believer in iteration, so here's another revamp of my Ranger. Hope you like it!
If you'd like a Ranger of your own please support my Interstellar Ranger on Lego Ideas: ideas.lego.com/projects/90945
What an interesting weekend that was and not all in a good way either!
I woke up Saturday to howling winds and various small birds and mammals shooting past my bedroom window. It was looking pretty sketchy out there and work felt like it was going to be a trek to get to.
I managed to stagger down to the car and began the journey in. About ten minutes in I was driving along an exposed part of the road when an almighty gust of wind almost felt like it lifted the car as the sterring went very light and before I knew it I was on the other side of the road......right in the path of an oncoming lorry! I swerved back over in the nick of time, barely avoiding a head on collision by a foot. I will tell you now, my life flashed before my eyes and that was, without doubt the closest I have come to dying in my 53 years. To compund things further the complete brain dead lorry driver thought the best response he/she could provide in the situation was to honk his horn and flash his full beams at me! What a blueberry!
Antways turned out work wasnt opening that day due to the risks so I headed back home for a paid day off!
Sunday I met up with Dave and we decided to head over to Portland as both of us were convinced the wave action would be pretty incredible. We arrived in the car park to be greeted by relatively flat seas....doh! The change of wind direction during the night had calmed the waves down and although to the right side of the island it was ok the left side was almost millpond! I made the most of it and managed to capture this 6 minute exposure of Pulpit rock which I was very pleased with as the winds were still a pain and I had to shield the camera to get a sharp image.
Later on that day I woke from a snooze on the sofa to see the sky was lighting up at sunset so grabbed the gear and rushed down to my lone treea couple of minutes away. I grabbed the camera, set up the tripod, switched the camera on.,.....and a nasty sounding whirring noise came from the lens followed by an message on my screen saying "lens initialization failure. please turn camera off and on again", which I did multiple times to no avail. The lens had broken! I switched over to my Viltrox which fired up fine so that eliminated the camera being the issue, grabbed my composition then headed home, kicking stones all the way from my car to my front door!
What a weekend. I posted the lens off yesterday back to Nikon repair centre and am now awaiting the estimate for the repair bill which I expect wont be cheap. Apparantly this is a rare but known issue with the Nikon Z lenses so hopefully it wont be too expensive to sort out. On the plus side my "new" Jupiter 8 50mm f2 lens turned up today and its tiny! Just waiting for my lens adapter mopunt to arrive to test this vintage beauty out on my Zf.
If I dont post before Christmas I hope you all have a fantastic time and get spoiled rotten with lots of camera goodies!
Toodles
Trophies for the Interstellar Conflict category of the 2023 Space Jam, Lego sci-fi building contest. Individual pictures of each trophy can be found on my alt account: www.flickr.com/photos/133437844@N03/
It was new moon last night. When I arrived at the site it was very cloudy and I didn't have much hope to shoot starscapes. I waited there patiently for a couple of hours and the sky suddenly cleared up at 2:00a.m.. This shot was taken just before the dawn when the milky way was at the highest position in the sky just as I planned.
Just as the new calendar year begins, and with it a feeling of new beginnings, so this network of dust and gas shows a portion of sky where star birth is yet to take hold.
This region is in Polaris, 490 light-years away. It was imaged by ESA’s Herschel space observatory in 2011; a colour composite is presented here.
It shows several tens of tangled interstellar filaments. Such filaments can stretch for tens of light-years through space and can precede the onset of star formation, with newborn stars often found in the densest parts.
Embedded within the filaments are a number of denser patches of material, but hardly any currently appear to be the seeds of future stars. As they are now, the filaments are simply not massive enough to support star formation.
Whether or not this currently calm region becomes a stellar nursery in the future remains to be seen.
The region was imaged by Herschel’s Photodetector Array Camera and Spectrometer and Spectral and Photometric Imaging Receiver at infrared wavelengths of 250, 350 and 500 microns.
Credit:
ESA and the SPIRE & PACS consortia, Ph. André (CEA Saclay) for the Gould’s Belt Survey Key Programme Consortium, and A. Abergel (IAS Orsay) for the Evolution of Interstellar Dust Key Programme Consortium
On Helhis : STARGAZER / EXILE / AVI-GLAM / SPYRALLE / HELHIS SHAPES, see more on the blog & direct links :
slwonderland.blogspot.com/2018/11/interstellar-sexy-dj-in...
The Solar-Powered Interstellar Drone for Extraterrestrial Research (S.P.I.D.E.R.) is finally completed at the 'Moonbase Celebration 50'.
With onboard intelligence, a formidable assortment of tools, and unlimited renewable power, this endlessly useful companion is sometimes referred to as 'GRAMPS' - Giant Robotic Assistant & Mobile Power Station (especially by arachnophobic astronauts).
Future missions will be accompanied by these units, to aid in planetoid habitability investigation and geo/bio research. Manipulator arms, coupled with highly advanced sensors allow this drone to examine samples, move debris, haul equipment, and even carry out rescue operations for astronauts in danger.
Fully capable of traversing uneven terrain, and repelling into crevaces with it's winch, this robotic research assistant can go just about anywhere on atmospheric and non-atmospheric terrestrial landscapes.
Prepare to give Space exploration a leg-up (or six!) and take your celestial crew to a whole new level of awesome adventure with a giant (robot) S.P.I.D.E.R. on board!
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This MOC has been a journey, developing a seamless transition through System and CCBS/Bionicle elements. With adjustable Greebles to simulate actuators. Fully articulated through each leg, the model is stable, poseable, and quite dynamic (in-environment shots coming soon!).
The features include: adjustable solar arrays, whiskers, and rear hitches, poseable manipulator arms (3), legs with up to 12+ points of articulation each + working shock absorption, opening hatch to reveal central core, storage for a large assortment of space tools, and a working winch (which can support the full weight of the build).
Watch my video for a hands-on with the features: youtu.be/Q3HC0IzGPfc
Thanks for checking it out, I hope you enjoy it!