I've been trying to write "I'd like to give the world a Xanax" but I can't make it scan. In the meantime.
Sometimes it just seems like art for art's sake, doesn't it?
A dying star left behind a cosmic roar 🦁@NASAWebb’s images of nebula NGC 2392 reveal intricate shells of gas and dust shaped by a central white dwarf star. In about 10,000 years, it will disperse into space, but first, Webb caught the fleeting moment.https://t.co/VUGEBknR7A pic.twitter.com/2nJ5BJcXNG
— NASA Goddard (@NASAGoddard) September 7, 2026
We live too fast to see some of the real excitement.
This 'superbubble' in the Large Magellanic Cloud is over 200 light-years across—and it's helping astronomers study how stars are born. More from @NASAHubble: https://t.co/NvJuk0az2R pic.twitter.com/DH2d0iQM7q
— NASA (@NASA) September 8, 2026
Ten sides, no waiting.
NEW: NASA’s Hubble telescope has discovered a giant 10-sided atmospheric structure forming around Saturn’s south pole.
— Outer Space Today (@outerspacetoday) September 5, 2026
The newly identified decagon (pictured) is the first large, regularly shaped jet pattern ever observed in Saturn’s southern hemisphere.
Hubble data suggest it… pic.twitter.com/DIkSlLTdTN
This is a student project from Rochester Institute of Technology by Tristan Liberace. The link tells the whole story, but basically it's a composite of images taken with more and more sensitivity. It's not a ray shooting out across the star. But it's cool.
Over 150 hours of Chandra observations compressed into 19 seconds. Explore how this timelapse of Centaurus A X-ray data was made at: https://t.co/85aBIcjaKG pic.twitter.com/hjfEuHNN1I
— Chandra Observatory (@chandraxray) September 3, 2026
Starry starry night/paint your palette … If I have to have that as an earworm, so do you.
A cosmic scene worthy of Van Gogh. This stunning DECam image captures the glowing nebula NGC 6729, the Chandelier Cluster NGC 6723, and swirling clouds of newborn stars
— World and Science (@WorldAndScience) September 2, 2026
(Credit: Dark Energy Survey/DOE/FNAL/DECam/CTIO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA - T.A. Rector, R. Colombari & M. Zamani) pic.twitter.com/FpiJrHad5Y
This is something I'd never heard of before. Basically vampire stars — renewing themselves by draining the juice from other stars.
Born anew ✨
— Hubble (@NASAHubble) September 10, 2026
The star cluster M30 is home to some "blue stragglers" – old stars that reclaim their youth in near head-on collisions with other stars, or by siphoning hydrogen from a larger, orbiting companion star: https://t.co/JMmiRARAQS pic.twitter.com/0AK0YRGbPa
I'm getting a lot of APOD pictures today. What can I say, they get great stuff.
If not the most grand, then this spiral galaxy is at least one of the most photogenic.
— NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day (@apod) August 30, 2026
An island universe of about 100 billion stars, 32 million light-years away toward the constellation Pisces, M74 presents a gorgeous face-on view.
Classified as an Sc galaxy, the grand… pic.twitter.com/kHpUoYMSoi
High school students?
Nā ʻUhane Māhoe Huki Pū i ke Ola, is the Hawaiian name given to this image of a pair of spiral galaxies locked in a mutual gravitational embrace. Some 200 million light-years distant toward the high flying constellation Pegasus their spectacular, galactic scale merger is captured… pic.twitter.com/DoSWZIGl5o
— NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day (@apod) September 6, 2026
I wonder how much its belly-kan.
I've got to say, it doesn't look much like a pelikan to me even now.
The Pelican Nebula is slowly being transformed. IC 5070 (an official designation) is divided from the larger North America Nebula by a molecular cloud filled with dark dust. The deep featured picture from Utah, USA incorporates 25 hours of exposure and brings out great details of… pic.twitter.com/PC6Da1z2en
— NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day (@apod) September 9, 2026
Another APOD; this one is actually today's POD.
'M83: The Southern Pinwheel'
— Swetilein (@Swetilein1) September 11, 2026
Image Credit & Copyright: Aldo Zanettihttps://t.co/TEkFGJPaAB#astronomy #space pic.twitter.com/neuBosvvAc
It's a planet, dammit. Have a heart.
Pluto is more colorful than we can see. Color data and high-resolution images of our Solar System's most famous dwarf planet, taken by the robotic New Horizons spacecraft during its flyby in 2015 July, have been digitally combined to give an enhanced-color view of this ancient… pic.twitter.com/9yMGhVyV2K
— NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day (@apod) September 9, 2026
So relax, listen to the pretty music, and watch for next week's Sky Candy. And of course, Sunday's Supplement, with black hole stars and little red dots.
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