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Astronomers Detect Most Distant Fast Radio Burst to Date ESO Science Release | 2023 Oct 19 https://www.eso.org/public/archives/images/screen/eso2317a.jpg An international team has spotted a remote blast of cosmic radio waves lasting less than a millisecond. This 'fast radio burst' ( FRB ) is the mo...

... Oh, and - I forgot! Today's APOD, featuring Io! https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/2310/IoFlyby_Juno_960.jpg How red it is!!! Is this "true color"? Would Io look like this if we could see it up close with our own eyes? Anyone? ... Another image, probably from the same data: PIA25885: Ju...

‘S’ is for ‘Spiral’, ‘AB’ is for … ‘Weakly Barred’ ESA Hubble Picture of the Week | 2023 Oct 16 https://cdn.spacetelescope.org/archives/images/screen/potw2342a.jpg This glittering image shows the spiral galaxy IC 5332 , which lies about 30 million light-years away in the constellation Sculptor, and...

Perched on Top of the World ESA Picture of the Week | La Silla | 2023 Oct 16 https://www.eso.org/public/archives/images/screen/potw2342a.jpg Standing majestically at the top of a hill at ESO’s La Silla Observatory, surveying the watercolour scenery of another sunset in Chile’s Atacama Desert, is th...

Rainbow on Maunakea NOIRLab Image of the Week | Gemini | 2023 Oct 11 https://noirlab.edu/public/media/archives/images/screen/iotw2341.jpg From the vantage point of Gemini North , one half of the International Gemini Observatory , operated by NSF’s NOIRLab, a small rainbow can be seen sprouting from...

"Ring of Fire" Solar Eclipse Comes to the Americas on October 14th
Sky & Telescope | 2023 Oct 05

LINER on Collision Course ESA Hubble Picture of the Week | 2023 Oct 09 https://cdn.spacetelescope.org/archives/images/screen/potw2341a.jpg This Picture of the Week prominently features two galaxies: NGC 3558 in the lower left, and LEDA 83465 in the upper right. Both galaxies lie roughly 450 million...

An ExTrA Special Planet Hunter ESO Picture of the Week | La Silla | 2023 Oct 09 https://www.eso.org/public/archives/images/screen/potw2341a.jpg The white pearl on the left side of this Picture of the Week is one of the Exoplanets in Transits and their Atmospheres telescopes — ExTrA for short. Locat...

Leaving on a Jet ESA Hubble Picture of the Week | 2023 Oct 02 https://cdn.spacetelescope.org/archives/images/large/potw2340a.jpg This spectacular image shows a region called G35.2-0.7N, which is known as a hotbed of high-mass star formation. The kind of stars that form here are so massive that they...

Glowing Rosy in the Dark ESO Picture of the Week | VST | 2023 Oct 02 https://www.eso.org/public/archives/images/screen/potw2340a.jpg There are two different types of nebulae brought to you in this Picture of the Week. Each appears with a distinct colour in the visible sky and are captured here usin...

NIRCam’s View of NGC 6822 ESA Webb Picture of the Month | 2023 Sep 27 potm2309a[1].jpg A huge, dense field completely filled with tiny stars. A few of the star images are a bit larger than the rest, with visible diffraction spikes; two foreground stars are large and bright on the right side. Many s...

Maunakea’s Shadow NOIRLab Image of the Week | Gemini North | 2023 Sep 27 https://noirlab.edu/public/media/archives/images/screen/iotw2339a.jpg This image, taken at sunrise, shows the blue shadow of Maunakea in Hawai‘i, home to the Gemini North telescope, tapering into an eerily symmetrical triangle...

What’s in a Name? ESA Hubble Picture of the Week | 2023 Sep 25 https://cdn.spacetelescope.org/archives/images/screen/potw2339a.jpg This Hubble Picture of the Week includes the pithily-named galaxy SDSS J103512.07+461412.2, visible in the centre of this image as a dispersed sweep of dust and stars w...

A Laser Show on Paranal ESO Picture of the Week | VLT | 2023 Sep 25 https://www.eso.org/public/archives/images/screen/potw2339a.jpg It’s hard not to get sucked into this Picture of the Week, taken using a long exposure at ESO’s Paranal Observatory in the Chilean Atacama Desert . Above the mountaint...

Galactic Face-off NOIRLab Image of the Week | CTIO | 2023 Sep 20 https://noirlab.edu/public/media/archives/images/screen/iotw2338a.jpg Far, far away in the constellation Phoenix , two interacting galaxies meet in an epic battle spanning a hundred thousand light-years, captured here with the Víctor ...

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A Peculiar Proceeding ESA Hubble Picture of the Week | 2023 Sep 18 https://cdn.spacetelescope.org/archives/images/screen/potw2338a.jpg This Hubble Picture of the Week — taken using NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope’s Advanced Camera for Surveys ( ACS ) — shows Arp 107 , a celestial object that compri...

New Planetary-Mass Object Found in Quadruple System ESO Picture of the Week | VLT | 2023 Sep 18 https://www.eso.org/public/archives/images/large/potw2338a.jpg This Picture of the Week shows the unique stellar system HIP 81208 , as captured by ESO’s Very Large Telescope ( VLT ) in Chile. Astronomers...

Calibration Station NOIRLab Image of the Week | Rubin Observatory | 2023 Sep 13 https://noirlab.edu/public/media/archives/images/screen/iotw2337a.jpg The bright band of the Milky Way seems to spill from the open dome of the Rubin Auxiliary Telescope ( AuxTel ) in this image from the recent NOIRLab ...

Measure of a Great Galactic Disc ESA Hubble Picture of the Week | 2023 Sep 11 https://cdn.spacetelescope.org/archives/images/screen/potw2337a.jpg This dream-like Picture of the Week features the galaxy known as NGC 3156 . It is a lenticular galaxy , meaning that it falls somewhere between an ellipt...

A Flower with Four Petals ESO Picture of the Week | VLT | 2023 Sep 11 https://www.eso.org/public/archives/images/large/potw2337a.jpg There are several galaxies in this Picture of the Week, but the most fascinating is probably the one surrounded by four light-blue dots, resembling a flower with blue...

Telescopes among the Clouds NOIRLab Image of the Week | Gemini | 2023 Sep 06 https://noirlab.edu/public/media/archives/images/screen/iotw2336a.jpg Near the summit of Maunakea , Gemini North — the northern half of the International Gemini Observatory operated by NSF’s NOIRLab — sits high above the c...

Galactic Isolation ESA Hubble Picture of the Week | 2023 Sep 04 https://cdn.spacetelescope.org/archives/images/screen/potw2336a.jpg The swirls of the galaxy IC 1776 stand in splendid isolation in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. This galaxy lies over 150 million light-years from...