The bright variable star V 372 Orionis takes center stage in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. via NASA https://ift.tt/xrQJI9T

The current darling of the northern night, Comet C/2022 E3 ZTF is captured in this telescopic image from a dark sky location at June Lake, California. Of course Comet ZTF has been growing brighter in recent days, headed for its closest approach to Earth on February 1. But this view was recorded on January 23, […]

Active galaxy NGC 1275, the central, dominant member of the large and relatively nearby Perseus Cluster of Galaxies, is a mysterious object. Wild-looking at visible wavelengths, the active galaxy is a prodigious source of x-rays and radio emission as it accretes matter from entire galaxies. This Hubble Space Telescope image highlights the resulting galactic debris and filaments of glowing gas, some up to 20,000 light-years long, that are held together by magnetic fields.

On January 25, 1984, President Ronald Reagan used his State of the Union address to call for NASA to build a permanent manned space station. via NASA https://ift.tt/MWBcvum

To some, the dark shape looks like a mythical boogeyman. Scientifically, Lynds’ Dark Nebula (LDN) 1622 appears against a faint background of glowing hydrogen gas only visible in long telescopic exposures of the region. In contrast, the brighter reflection nebula vdB 62 is more easily seen just above and to the right of center in […]

Astronaut Nicole Mann is pictured during her first spacewalk installing a modification kit on the International Space Station’s starboard truss structure. via NASA https://ift.tt/HXZlmvM

Astronaut Nicole Mann is pictured during her first spacewalk installing a modification kit on the International Space Station’s starboard truss structure. via NASA https://ift.tt/HXZlmvM

If you could stand on exoplanet LHS 475 b, what might you see? No one knows for sure but pictured here is an interesting guess made by an Earth-based artificial intelligence (AI) engine. The existence of the exoplanet was indicated in data taken by the Earth-orbiting TESS satellite but confirmed and further investigated only this […]

An international team of astronomers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has obtained an in-depth inventory of the deepest, coldest ices measured to date in a molecular cloud. via NASA https://ift.tt/13OskpB

Two galaxies are squaring off in Virgo and here are the latest pictures. When two galaxies collide, the stars that compose them usually do not. This is because galaxies are mostly empty space and, however bright, stars only take up only a small fraction of that space. But during the collision, one galaxy can rip […]