The Ghost Nebula

M64: BLACK-EYE GALAXY

The Lonely Neutron Star in Supernova E0102 72.3

Credits: NASA, CXC, ESO, F. Vogt et al., ESO, VLT, MUSE, NASA, STScI

SH2-240 Spaghetti Nebula

2 panel mosaic

January 27-29, 2025

Zionsville, IN, Bortle 6-7

SVBONY SV550 APO 80 mm'

ZWO AM 5, ASIAIR plus, Guided

Antlia ALP-T Dual Narrowband Filter

ASI2600 MC PRO

Gain 100, -10C, darks, flats, bias

ca. 7 hrs per panel (7 hrs total per night)

Visible vs Infrared These are the "Pillars of Creation" seen by Hubble, in visible light (on the left) and in infrared light by the James Webb Space Telescope, on the right!

"I don't see any god up here. But from here the Earth is beautiful, without borders or divisions."

The first words of a human in space.

Soviet Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, April 12, 1961.

Thanks to Clara Statello

High, autistic, I rlly like space, m space sounds

Apollo 11

Like images of broken light, Webb captured these carbon-rich dust shells around a binary star system. Drifting swiftly outwards, they are seeding their surroundings with carbon - one way elements spread across the universe.

go.nasa.gov/4ahBqmX

Launch of Gemini 6 Titan II (SC6/GLV-6 12561) from Launch Complex 19. "The Gemini VI, scheduled as a two-day mission, was launched from Pad 19, carrying astronauts Walter M. Schirra Jr., Command Pilot, and Thomas P. Stafford, Pilot. Gemini VI rendezvoused with Gemini VII, already orbiting the Earth."

Date: December 15, 1965

NASA ID: KSC-65PC-0161, S65-44293, S65-59987