It's the 24th anniversary of something awful and the 13th anniversary of something else awful, and two days after something else awful, and I have a lot of thoughts about… someplace else.
I don't know about you all, but I need a break.
so uh…. anyone else need some space?
— Jasmine 🌌🔭 (@astro_jaz) September 10, 2025
things are HEAVY right now. pic.twitter.com/ef1PndSDUv
As you all probably know by now, I can't resist a picture of the Seven Sisters. They seem to live in a nice neighborhood.
I'm thrilled to share my deepest sky photo ever, with over 200 hours exposure in Taurus & Perseus. The famous Pleiades star cluster is visible, and Jupiter outshines all the stars in the bottom left.
— Andrew McCarthy (@AJamesMcCarthy) September 11, 2025
This was shortlisted for an award today! It's also my latest fine art print. pic.twitter.com/7thjBPsEXP
It's obviously a gated community.
The Great Void.
— Black Hole (@konstructivizm) September 10, 2025
Meet the Boötes Void, one of the most mysterious empty regions in the Universe. It’s astonishingly large: over 330 million light years across, yet there are only a few galaxies where there should be thousands.
Some say it’s simply “The Great Nothing.” Others… pic.twitter.com/4VOOuAXsti
Nobody goes there anymore; it's too crowded.
Extraordinary: A selection of multi-planet systems found in the Milky Way galaxy thanks to the Kepler Space Telescope!
— World and Science (@WorldAndScience) September 10, 2025
(Credit: Ethan Kruse/NASA Goddard) pic.twitter.com/hPL1SLOPOD
See also the Seven Sisters.
Moon, Venus and the Pleiades pic.twitter.com/TS2hAmrST3
— Night Sky Today (@NightSkyToday) September 10, 2025
The Webb is producing some great pictures, as always.
A Gorgeous image of HH 211, a bright region surrounding a young star, unveiling intricate details of its outflows.
— Universal-Sci (@universal_sci) September 9, 2025
The observations suggest the protostar may be part of a binary system
Credit: ESA/Webb, NASA, CSA, T. Ray (Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies) pic.twitter.com/8GVkDjSLVb
This would be worth watching. Click through for the full explanation, but the TL;DR is an impending type 1A supernova close enough to be visible from Earth.
In the daytime.
An international team led by the @IAC_Astrofisica alongside the @ULL has uncovered a sensational cosmic drama unfolding in our own galaxy.
— Erika (@ExploreCosmos_) September 10, 2025
The binary star system known as V Sagittae is performing an extraordinary “stellar dance”: a superdense white dwarf is ravenously… pic.twitter.com/FmSAfb5lz8
More baby pictures.
Astronomers have unveiled a spectacular cosmic scene in the depths of space: a newborn gas giant, dubbed WISPIT 2b, actively forming within a dramatically structured protoplanetary disk.
— Erika (@ExploreCosmos_) September 8, 2025
Located some 430 light-years from Earth around a young star remarkably similar to our Sun,… pic.twitter.com/T5vrXmiZAr
Do-si-do.
🚨: An extremely rare event, 3 supermassive black holes have been caught colliding and shacking space-time. pic.twitter.com/o1xfI7fOr4
— All day Astronomy (@forallcurious) September 8, 2025
Nice.
Part of something I've been working on. Quite a challenging project for me!
— Andrew McCarthy (@AJamesMcCarthy) September 8, 2025
Captured using a camera with a 135mm lens... no telescope used! pic.twitter.com/M9HKCkeb6j
From a distance.
The lush Caribbean island of Guadeloupe, when viewed in near-infrared, appears as a highly reflective magenta, characteristic of healthy vegetation. pic.twitter.com/E10fuhY5eo
— Don Pettit (@astro_Pettit) September 10, 2025
Previously on Sky Candy: Today's Nice, Quiet Sky Candy
Come back next week for more stargazing.
