#space telescopes

[planeyboys]

The neighbours dog up all night getting signals

[theofficialastronomy101]

2025 brought many new breakthrough discoveries such as the photos below.

In a stunning new breakthrough, scientists from the U.S. National Science Foundation’s National Solar Observatory have captured the most detailed view of the Sun’s surface ever recorded. Using the powerful Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope in Hawaii, the team spotted ultra-thin magnetic “stripes” just 20 kilometers wide—about the length of Manhattan. These bright and dark bands, known as striations, ripple along the edges of solar granules and are created by delicate, curtain-like magnetic fields. As sunlight passes through these magnetic structures, it shifts in brightness, similar to how light changes when shining through a billowing curtain.

The discovery reveals a hidden layer of complexity in the Sun’s magnetic landscape and showcases the Inouye Telescope’s incredible ability to detect features once thought invisible from Earth. It opens the door to a deeper understanding of how solar magnetism drives powerful events like flares and storms in space

[spaceraceart]

got obsessed with the space telescopes for a lil while hehehe. revamped my designs for jwst and hst and tried my hand at designing some of the other "great observatories" as well! i like to think hubble, spitzer, and chandra are all siblings (and james is just kinda crashing the party here).

some extra thoughts under the readmore

so theres four great observatories, but the fourth, compton, was purposefully de-orbited and burnt up in the atmosphere. haven't designed her yet, but her death haunts the other space telescopes a lot hehe.

hubble was the first of the siblings to be launched, with compton launching shortly afterwards. they were pretty close before her eventual demise. unfortunately her death and chandra's launch sort of overlapped, so hubble and chandra's initial relationship was heavily strained by the grief hubble was feeling.

theyre doing alright nowadays, but its still kind of a sore subject. this is especially true because hubble fears he may share the same fate in a couple years. with the lack of funding and his failing systems, it's very likely he may be de-orbited as well.

[wikipediapictures]

Hubble Ultra-Deep Field

“The Hubble Ultra Deep Field, is an image of a small region of space in the constellation Fornax, composited from Hubble Space Telescope data accumulated over a period from September 3, 2003 through January 16, 2004. The patch of sky in which the galaxies reside was chosen because it had a low density of bright stars in the near-field.” - via Wikimedia Commons

[starstrucktoby]

Swift’s UV Portrait of the Andromeda Galaxy

NASA's Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory viewed the spiral galaxy Andromeda. (Also called M31, in Ultraviolet light). The image is composed of 330 images from Swift's Ultraviolet Optical Telescope. 20,000 ultraviolet sources are visible in the photo, including M32, which is a small galaxy in orbit around M31.

Image Credits: NASA/Swift/Stefan Immler (GSFC) and Erin Grand (UMCP)

[3uphoriaepisode]

I love space probes so much, I think they’re so wonderful and helpful to the world, fellas wish to take pictures and send back to us to study and admire.. I wish I could give them a pat and a kiss on the head,, they’re doin such a good job.. 🥹🥹

Sure if I tried to kiss the webb I’m sure I may be poisoned.. but it’s ok it’s worth it 👍

[raptorliver]

i think we as a society need to appreciate images taken by the Chandra X-ray Observatory more.

[iriswbp]

space telescopes! and deep impact.