Look, it's Independence Day weekend; there are certainly white stars here.
Andrew McCarthy has some new, amazingly cool images.
Proud to share my latest project: a 65 hour exposure of the shockwave from a supernova. You’re seeing it rip through other star systems.
— Andrew McCarthy (@AJamesMcCarthy) July 2, 2026
Any planets within 10LY of the star would have been destroyed!
I knew it would be fascinating. I didn’t know it would be so beautiful. pic.twitter.com/CIFF5AKBDB
Maybe red, white, and blue?
IC434 Horsehead and flame nebula by Bob Simonds (Facebook ) https://t.co/BeippDGA8H pic.twitter.com/8YrXr3snHk
— Julio Maiz (@maiz_julio) July 3, 2026
Oh, good, white and blue.
🆕 The #NIRCam on Webb has captured the protostars of the FS Tau system. These are just 1 to 3 million years old – young by cosmic standards! 👶⭐ 1/2 pic.twitter.com/AZVWlF3Imx
— ESA Webb Telescope (@ESA_Webb) July 2, 2026
Well, red and green, but it's pretty.
a timelapse of Aurora Borealis pic.twitter.com/WeV2hLqASN
— ᅠ (@artindetails) June 27, 2026
White and blue stars. Lots of white and blue stars.
That’s one big chandelier…
— NASA (@NASA) June 29, 2026
The @NASAHubble team captured this sparkling photo of the Chandelier Cluster, a globular star cluster within our Milky Way galaxy. A globular cluster is a dense collection of thousands to millions of stars bound by gravity. https://t.co/hkks3ngsPU pic.twitter.com/lSmHjfWnDF
I don't think we've had this galaxy before.
The spiral galaxy NGC 6744 in a field of integrated flux nebula (IFN)
— ZWO (@zwoastro) July 1, 2026
Captured by Paul Mayo, this remarkable view of NGC 6744 unveils the delicate wisps of Integrated Flux Nebula (IFN)—interstellar dust so faint that it is illuminated only by the combined light of billions of… pic.twitter.com/f9y7cdEr9Q
One of those great galleries, along with a birthday present whenever it's your birthday.
The Galactic Centre, Orion Nebula, 30 Doradus Nebula, and Galaxy Hydra A. 😍 https://t.co/7H3hxeQeDi pic.twitter.com/vCvljaafSc
— Rich Walker (@whiskeyrich) July 1, 2026
This was processed to make it more spectacular. It was a success.
NGC 6979 Pickering's Triangle (SHO)
— Beatrice Heinze Photography (@BeatriceHeinze) June 29, 2026
Pickering's Triangle, also known as Pickering's Triangular Wisp, is a part of the Veil Nebula (NGC 6960 Western Veil Nebula & NGC 6992 Eastern Veil Nebula).
This Nebula, a supernova remnant, is located in the constellation of Cygnus (The… pic.twitter.com/oTIaBYMo33
From the Southern Hemisphere.
This image was captured outside the SOAR Telescope on Cerro Pachón in Chile.
— NOIRLab (@NOIRLabAstro) July 1, 2026
Visible are:
🌌The Milky Way
☁️The Large Magellanic Cloud & Small Magellanic Cloud
💥The laser guide star of Gemini South, ½ of the International @GeminiObs
📸: CTIO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/T. Slovinský pic.twitter.com/szQG3qDOe9
A visible light image by Hubble.
A striking jet pierces the glowing clouds of the Carina Nebula in this visible-light image captured by the Hubble Space Telescope's Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3).
— Physics & Astronomy Zone (@zone_astronomy) June 29, 2026
Credit: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble SM4 ERO Team pic.twitter.com/Ic3nbKAkCA
Some warm colors.
Rick's #Astrophotography Picture of the Day - IC 405, the Flaming Star Nebula and AE Aurigae
— Eyes to the Stars (@Eyes2TheStars) June 30, 2026
AE Aurigae is near the lower center driving the illumination of the surrounding gas and dust. This shows warm orange/brown emissions intertwined with faint blue reflection patches. pic.twitter.com/Y0N8ArE7Z5
We didn't really know how many galaxies there were in the universe. The Deep-Field Hubble image was a big surprise.
10,000 Galaxies in a Hubble Photograph ✨
— Black Hole (@konstructivizm) July 3, 2026
In 2003, the Hubble Space Telescope captured one of its most famous images—the Hubble Ultra Deep Field—while operating at its maximum sensitivity.
Astronomers later counted approximately 10,000 galaxies in the image. To gather such a… pic.twitter.com/9nJKoclM7P
Our galaxy is bigger than we thought, too.
🌀 The Milky Way is bigger than we thought.
— European Space Agency (@esa) July 1, 2026
Using X-ray echoes from powerful cosmic explosions, our XMM-Newton and @NASA's Chandra have revealed that some of our galaxy’s outer spiral arms lie up to 10% further away than previously estimated.
Read more 👉… pic.twitter.com/ZHlxIpjoKB
Here's a nice guide to the night sky for July.
There will be more than just fireworks to see in the night sky this month!
— NASA (@NASA) July 2, 2026
You can look forward to these celestial sights in July:
- A lunar-planetary alignment
- A visiting comet
- A good look at Saturn and the Milky Way
Happy skywatching! https://t.co/6EP5GpvAQw pic.twitter.com/y0O5qsNf1j
Let’s finish our Independence Day with the North American Nebula.
This is the North America Nebula!
— Michael Terhune (@SharpStarAstro) June 27, 2026
This was shot unfiltered with my Astro modified dslr from a bortle 4 site!
I love natural looking images like this, full star fields, glowing nebula that looks really natural because it is!
No crazy colors or a thousand filters used just… pic.twitter.com/NahgnqQ1Pb
So there we go. See you next week?
