I just couldn't get it started this morning. Here's a soundtrack from the garage.
One of the things that really fascinates me about the James Webb Space Telescope is what happens when it images the planets in infrared. Here's the aurorae above Jupiter.
NEWS 🚨: NASA's James Webb Space Telescope captures up-close infrared views of auroras on Jupiter pic.twitter.com/dmGGPy655M
— Latest in space (@latestinspace) May 15, 2025
We're used to looking down from the ISS. What happens if we look up?
Beautiful sky from the ISS. pic.twitter.com/V5ESZrle74
— Black Hole (@konstructivizm) May 10, 2025
There are people taking a lot of astrophotographs out there, and every so often, they get really lucky.
Once-in-a-lifetime-shot. A bright meteor burned up in the atmosphere while capturing Andromeda Galaxy. pic.twitter.com/2jtlMSPgaD
— Curiosity (@MAstronomers) May 10, 2025
I'm a little worried this is a repeat, but what the hell; it's gorgeous.
Aurora insanity over north France on 10-11 May 2024 G5 superstorm! https://t.co/FQlQrVlW7Y
— Jure Atanackov (@JAtanackov) May 10, 2025
More from Andrew McCarthy.
I find the more time I spend gazing upwards, the less the problems of the day-to-day stress me out.
— Andrew McCarthy (@AJamesMcCarthy) May 11, 2025
Sometimes a little perspective can go a long way to giving us what we need. pic.twitter.com/x0Ppvhtyfn
I should post more from Astronomy Picture of the Day, a great astronomy site from NASA.
What does our Milky Way Galaxy look like from the side? Because we are on the inside, humanity can’t get an actual picture. Recently, however, just such a map has been made using location data for over a billion stars from ESA’s Gaia mission. The resulting featured illustration… pic.twitter.com/mLvZ3IyfR9
— Astronomy Picture Of the Day (@apod) May 14, 2025
Getting on top of things.
What does our Milky Way Galaxy look like from the top? Because we are on the inside, humanity can’t get an actual picture. Recently, however, just such a map has been made using location data for over a billion stars from ESA’s Gaia mission. The resulting featured illustration… pic.twitter.com/IpRqBjPMRz
— Astronomy Picture Of the Day (@apod) May 15, 2025
Crab salad? Notice this is M1. You always remember your first.
Cataloged as M1, the Crab Nebula is the first on Charles Messier's famous list of things which are not comets. In fact, the Crab Nebula is now known to be a supernova remnant, an expanding cloud of debris from the death explosion of a massive star. The violent birth of the Crab… pic.twitter.com/Hy9LNC3vEo
— Astronomy Picture Of the Day (@apod) May 10, 2025
Dragon's eggs are always cool.
Dragon’s Egg in the Cosmic Cloud © https://t.co/By69VCfAsW pic.twitter.com/HIU10CpsFF
— Alienigena11 (@Madriles6211) May 10, 2025
A little belated Easter content.
After 3 years of wait, calculations and precise astronomical timing, Leonardo Sens captured this photo pic.twitter.com/RFOEDYkP2Q
— Nature is Amazing ☘️ (@AMAZlNGNATURE) May 12, 2025
Seriously, there's been a lot of news happening this week. I'm sorry this is late. This week on The Stars our Destination, I commented on a post Vodkapundit that Steve posted here in PJ. I hope this recursive linking doesn't cause a rip in the space time continuum.
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