Here's a soundtrack for you.
I tell you, there was so much good stuff ith aurorae and comets and nebulae that I was tempted to do a non-VIP tease earlier in the week. If I did, would you all read it?
In the meantime, here's just the first aurora picture.
The art of cropping. Aurora.
— RandyMilanovic 🇨🇦 (@randymilanovic) October 9, 2025
I could have edited out the clouds but they’re part of it, so they stay ... this time 😈 pic.twitter.com/yHuvlVY8oP
Astrophotography is catching on.
4 years ago I didn’t know how to use a telescope…
— Cathrin Machin Space Art (@Cathrinmachin) October 8, 2025
Today I’ve found out we’ve sold 300 calendars with our space photos!!! 🥹
So freaking grateful…thank you for your support! pic.twitter.com/st4Tt8d3gb
What did I tell you?
Love me some purple aurora pic.twitter.com/eXlr7XX7rI
— Vincent Ledvina (@Vincent_Ledvina) October 7, 2025
I've done Wolf-Rayet stars before. Basically, they are extremely massive stars that burn so hot they blow off their own outer layers, making these shells. In fact, they're so hot the gasses glow more like an incandescent light bulb — not by ionization, but because they're just hot. In the meantime, they scatter heavy elements, which then go into planet-building. I'm not going to include everything Grok has to say about them, but you can find Grok's whole report here.
This is an extraordinary image by Chris Schur showing the faint nebula WR 134, which surrounds an energetic Wolf-Rayet Star in Cygnus. The star that powers this nebula is 400,000 times as luminous as the Sun and lies 5,700 light-years away. pic.twitter.com/XFEq9VvaMU
— David Eicher (@deicherstar) October 8, 2025
Here's Saturn in infrared. Lots going on there.
It was one of the largest and longest-lived storms ever recorded in our Solar System. First seen in late 2010, the featured cloud formation in the northern hemisphere of Saturn started larger than the Earth and soon spread completely around the planet. The storm was tracked not… pic.twitter.com/VR32aFG7nW
— Astronomy Picture of the Day (@apod) October 7, 2025
There's been quite a show going on up north. I read something recently that the Sun generates more solar storms while it's winding down its 11-year cycle. Certainly the aurorae have been showy.
October 7th, 2024
— Jeremy Cruz (@J_master_caster) October 7, 2025
A night of multiple, incredible naked eye substorms that were so bright, the colors of my images blew out.
Little did I know, this storm would seem like a tiny burst compared to a night a few days later. #aurora #northernlights #spaceweather pic.twitter.com/8zcEbdFVsL
The Horsehead Nebula was one of my first favorite astrophotographs.
Ian and my photo of the horsehead nebula
— Cathrin Machin Space Art (@Cathrinmachin) October 7, 2025
He shot it, I processed it 🐴❤️🧡 pic.twitter.com/zUFuOpOpBE
They're doing fascinating things with deeper analysis of these images.
The new Eagle Nebula image, released by ESA/Hubble, uses updated data and processing techniques to showcase a giant 9.5-light-year-tall pillar of gas and dust, which is part of a larger stellar nursery. This image enhances the details of the cosmic structure formed by intense… pic.twitter.com/8vVsefVq02
— Night Sky Today (@NightSkyToday) October 4, 2025
An even more lively sun.
The Hubble Space Telescope captured this image of supernova remnant DEM L 190 (also LMC N49), the brightest in the Large Magellanic Cloud, about 160,000 light-years away in Dorado. The remnant's delicate filaments are explosion debris that will form new stars. It interacts with… pic.twitter.com/a7WlUWB9yJ
— Black Hole (@konstructivizm) October 6, 2025
Tell me this doesn't belong in a science fiction movie.
My best sighting of a Starlink satellite "train" from orbit! pic.twitter.com/WratClL8NJ
— Don Pettit (@astro_Pettit) October 7, 2025
Okay, it's not astronomical but I like this story too much to let it pass.
Back @StJude for the unveiling of @ArceneauxHayley’s spacesuit. Like Hayley, this suit is a beacon of hope and inspiration for all patients until the miserable battle against childhood cancer ends forever and the vision of Danny Thomas and St. Jude is fulfilled. Wishing Godspeed… https://t.co/qmIRpJPTw1 pic.twitter.com/oO0ERZp4at
— Jared Isaacman (@rookisaacman) October 7, 2025
And I think that's it for this week. Let me know if you would like an occasional mid-week one or two cool images. As always, I appreciate getting comments, and tell all your friends — and your enemies, and people you run into on the street — to come back next week for more Sky Candy.
