into the unknown

space blog

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The ISS With Luna

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Daphnis !

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Do you realise that it’s in this thing called space that we live? I know it for a fact, but I still can’t REALise. “Swirling clouds of gas and dust near the Tarantula Nebula, the most productive star-forming region in the nearby universe and home to the most massive stars known.” NASA

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SH2-173 Phantom of the Opera Nebula in HaRGB !

Courtesy: Steven Miller

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Mercury's Ancient Volcanic Plains !

Perspective view of ancient volcanic plains in the northern high-latitudes of Mercury revealed by instruments on board the MESSENGER spacecraft.

Credit: NASA/JHUAPL/CIW-DTM/GSFC/MIT/Brown Univ/; Rendering by James Dickson

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 NGC 6302, Butterfly

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The Moon, la Lune • old academic newspaper aesthetic

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NGC 4535 !

NGC 4535 is a spiral galaxy located about 50 million light-years away in the constellation Virgo (The Maiden). The galaxy has a central bar of stars and massive spiral arms. A lot of activity goes on in the spiral arms.

Image source: ESA/Hubble, NASA, F. Belfiore, J. Lee, and the PHANGS-HST Team

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•●°• Blue hyper-celestial aesthetic •⭕•°

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2025 PN7 !

Earth has picked up a new traveling companion – an asteroid named 2025 PN7 that now moves through space in step with us. This tiny quasi moon, only about 62 feet (19 meters) wide, follows an orbit so similar to Earth’s that it will linger nearby for nearly six decades, staying with us until around 2083.

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Saturn and six moons. Voyage dans les mondes. 19th c. Jean Macé.

Gallica

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NGC 3521

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Centaurus A

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The Moon !

An image captured in April 2025, when the Moon was 35% visible, reveals that it has far more colors than previously thought. Red (iron) and blue (titanium) hues are also present.

Ildar Ibatullin Photography

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Electric Threads of the Lightning Spaghetti Nebula (Simeis 147) 

© Shaoyu Zhang

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The Massive Galaxy Cluster Abell 1689 !

Rolf Olsen Astrophotography

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celestial scenery