Let's go a little retro for the soundtrack today.
The Zodiacal Light is basically the Sun reflecting on the leftovers after building the planets.
The Zodiacal light above the Pacific Ocean. I obtained this image with my Samsung S25 Ultra smartphone from the Atacama Desert in Chile 🇨🇱 The amount of details captured by the phone is truly impressive, showing how far smartphone astrophotography has come. We are definitely… pic.twitter.com/NYfeiKITBN
— Yuri Beletsky (@YBeletsky) October 15, 2025
Had a request for comets, and comets you shall have.
One year ago tonight: A beautiful comet behind Starship ahead of Flight 5. The next morning, SpaceX completed a fully successful mission, including the first-ever Super Heavy catch and landing. History. pic.twitter.com/na2j1vKDeK
— John Kraus (@johnkrausphotos) October 12, 2025
APOD is always good for a picture.
The tree is not in danger. That's because the comet pictured just above it, Comet C/2025 A6 (Lemmon), is far in the distance, well away from the Earth. Comet Lemmon now continues to brighten as it arcs through the inner Solar System, even though it has passed its nearest to the… pic.twitter.com/buUIARTdAY
— Astronomy Picture of the Day (@apod) October 14, 2025
Big rocket.
Walking under starship‘s flaps pic.twitter.com/XInQCWxyg0
— Kevin (@TheThirdEve) October 12, 2025
BIG rocket.
Starship compared to Space Shuttle and Saturn V 🤯 pic.twitter.com/KRyBnAzFXb
— Tesla Owners Silicon Valley (@teslaownersSV) October 11, 2025
Seriously, isn't this what we really expected?
And it's looking more like science fiction every day.
The last two starship launches were incredibly stunning. Here’s my favorite photos I captured from each.
— Andrew McCarthy (@AJamesMcCarthy) October 15, 2025
Top: flight 10
Bottom: flight 11
Which do you think is prettier? pic.twitter.com/i8YfFcT1gf
And Saturn. Saturn.
#PPOD: Fantastic Planet 🪐
— The SETI Institute (@SETIInstitute) October 10, 2025
Saturn's biggest and brightest moons are visible in this portrait by Cassini.
Titan (5,150 kilometers across) is Saturn's largest moon and appears at the lower left. Note that some details in the moon's smoggy atmosphere are visible here. Rhea (1,528… pic.twitter.com/HQ2n7gqPbp
Another fantastic planet.
Clouds casting thousand-mile shadows around the Earth, seen by the International Space Station pic.twitter.com/FCuKXXphfM
— Curiosity (@MAstronomers) October 3, 2025
Long exposures show us what we're missing.
I pointed a 12” telescope for 30 hours at the Soul nebula to reveal this: impossibly huge, vibrant structures made of gas and dust
— Andrew McCarthy (@AJamesMcCarthy) October 1, 2025
I loved the resulting image so much I decided to make it January’s image in my 2026 cosmic calendar, now available for preorder in my bio. pic.twitter.com/0ilqqlu7IC
Andrew McCarthy is doing some fascinating art.
Silly Gregory thinks Nebulae are solid things you can touch
— Andrew McCarthy (@AJamesMcCarthy) October 3, 2025
Moments later the occupants of the Horsehead Nebula experienced extreme disaster pic.twitter.com/fn3nCnbnSY
I was thinking about some cheesy line about "it's a gas," but that's beneath me.
The breathtaking Carina Nebula imaged by the VLT Survey Telescope
— Universal-Sci (@universal_sci) October 10, 2025
(Credit: ESO. Acknowledgement: VPHAS+ Consortium/Cambridge Astronomical Survey Unit) pic.twitter.com/OC1RJdKAa3
It's really looking like the Sun has been showing off.
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
Some baby pictures.
A Cosmic Cloud known as CB 130-3
— Universal-Sci (@universal_sci) October 4, 2025
In the process of collapsing, these clouds can gather enough mass in one place to kickstart hydrogen fusion, signalling the birth of a star
(Credit: ESA/Hubble, NASA & STScI, C. Britt, T. Huard, A. Pagan) pic.twitter.com/DwgPmeAVxu
It looks so peaceful from here.
Beautiful view of the Red Sea from the ISS window. pic.twitter.com/iy0xMrAMr9
— Curiosity (@MAstronomers) October 4, 2025
I don't have a good line for this. Just look.
The beautiful Spiral Galaxy M81 ! pic.twitter.com/odlJdeFBS0
— Night Sky Today (@NightSkyToday) September 29, 2025
This week may have gotten a little out of hand,but there were so many things I liked. I hope no one minds.
As always, I like comments, and I hope you'll be back next week. And watch for a non-VIP sky candy teaser post; that seemed well received last Monday.
