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Halloween is almost here, and we want to showcase your skywatching horror stories! Ever leave a telescope out in the rain, or have floodlights ruin your view of a solar eclipse?
Email us 100-200 words on your nightmarish experience at spacephotos@space.com
October 14, 2026 at 3:13 PM
jknoblauch.bsky.social
Tried out my new telescope last night. This is my first look at the 𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗿𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗱𝗮 𝗴𝗮𝗹𝗮𝘅𝘆. Can't wait to make more detailed images. Space really is the final frontier! Get my newsletter #finalfrontier #spacephotos
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September 18, 2026 at 3:01 AM
zorzstudios.com
20 jaw-dropping space photos from the #2025ZWOAstronomyPhotographerOfTheYear awards: zorz.it/dYCcZ

#SaumyaRatan #AstronomyPhotography #CosmosPhotography #SpacePhotos #competition #TheUniverse #photography #awards
February 11, 2026 at 5:40 PM
zorzstudios.com
📰 Today's top stories, curated for you by Zorz Studios: zorz.it/newspaper

Seven mind blowing #SpacePhotos taken this month;
- How to make #money with #photography;
- Victoria Soprano 2026 #WeddingDresses, and more

#ZoracleDaily #newspaper
June 16, 2025 at 10:00 AM
yakovmanshin.com
APOD is 30 Years Old Today 🌌 #SpacePhotos
Thousands of Space Photos from APOD, combined together to create a collage of Vincent van Gogh’s “Starry Night.”
June 17, 2025 at 6:11 AM
solishere.bsky.social
Other cool pics I did:)
#sanmarcos #SanMarcosTX #Texas #TX #bluesky #skypromo #nature #naturephotos #camera #space #NASA #stars #photos #signalboost #supportartists #night #spacephotos #idk #hi #beautiful
January 1, 2025 at 12:02 AM
newsletter-tf.bsky.social
Earth's Horizon Ignites: A Celestial Spectacle From Orbit

New photos from space on May 26, 2026, show Earth's sunsets in bright colors. See the amazing view from orbit.

#SpaceSunset, #EarthFromSpace, #Astronomy, #ESA, #SpacePhotos

https://newsletter.tf/earth-sunsets-from-orbit-photos-may-26/
Space Photos Show Earth Sunsets From Orbit On May 26
June 19, 2026 at 3:16 AM
morgansmorgue.bsky.social
Getting really excited when you started teaching me more about space and spacephotos bc I didn’t know I could really do it
February 18, 2025 at 3:21 PM
fraknoi.bsky.social
This uncanny image shows LDN43, the cosmic bat nebula -- a region of dark dust & dense gas, where new stars are forming. The nebula is 1400 lightyears away and about 12 lightyears across. #astronomy #astroedu #astrophotos #space #spacephotos #spaceimages #astrophotography #nebula #spacepictures
The dark nebula with catalog number LDN43 resembles a flying bat. It is a cloud of dense gas and dust inside which new stars are forming, accounting for the lighter regions that paint the features of the bat. Image credit: Mark Hanson and Mike Selby.
July 22, 2025 at 8:53 PM
fraknoi.bsky.social
Beautiful image from Gemini Observatory: the dome of their telescope on Maunkea peak, Hawaii. In this time exposure, see the stars circle the north pole of the sky as our planet rotates. Laser beams that probe atmospheric distortion add interest. #astronomy #astroedu #astrophotos #spacephotos #sky
This long time-exposure of the Gemini North Telescope dome on the 14,000 foot peak of Maunakea in Hawaii show the stars making circular trails around the north pole of the sky and the Pole Star Polaris. Some of the guide-star laser beams that help astronomers keep track of dancing of the Earth's atmosphere are also seen coming from the dome.
July 16, 2025 at 12:41 AM
fraknoi.bsky.social
Amazing star-forming region, the Tarantula #Nebula, 160,000 lightyears away & 600 lightyears wide. Another great composite image produced by noted amateur astronomer #RobGendler. Massive, luminous baby stars help it to glow.
#astronomy #astroedu #space #spacephotos #astroimaging #sciencephotos
The Tarantula Nebula: a composite image produced by Rob Gendler from data provided by the European Southern Observatory and the Hubble Space Telescope. It is a star-forming nebula -- a region of gas and dust, lit up by the light of newly-born stars inside.
June 4, 2025 at 10:26 PM
fraknoi.bsky.social
We see the Veil Nebula, a small part of a vast ancient remnant of an exploded star, still glowing with colorful emissions from hydrogen, oxygen, and sulfur atoms.
#astronomy #astroedu #astrophotography #space #spaceimages #spacephotos #astroimages #NASA #sciencephotos
This colorful region of glowing gas, often called the Veil Nebula, is part of the large, old supernova remnant called the Cygnus Loop. A massive star exploded some 10-20 thousand years ago and the remnant is still glowing in places. Astronomers have determined that oxygen, sulfur, and hydrogen atoms are contributing to the glow.
May 13, 2025 at 11:14 PM
fraknoi.bsky.social
Beautiful image by Robert Fesen & collaborators showing a Wolf-Rayet star (WR8) -- a massive star violently letting go its outer layer (blue) against a background of glowing gas.
#astronomy #astroedu #astrophotography #space #spacephotography #astroimages #sciencephotos #spacephotos #astrophotos
WR8, a Wolf-Rayet Star. These are massive stars losing their outer layers forcefully toward the end of their lives. The blue is the ejected material, the reddish glow comes from glowing gas and dust lying behind or front of the star, but not connected with it.
May 2, 2025 at 5:23 PM
fraknoi.bsky.social
Complex, beautiful image, assembled by Rob Gendler, from several visible-light & Infrared telescopes, shows the Ring Nebula, with its many shells of material emitted by a dying star.
#astronomy #astroedu #space #spacephotos #astroimaging #stars #sciencephotos #astrophotography #spaceimages
The Ring Nebula, a "planetary" nebula (misnomer), probably better called a death-shroud nebula. This material, shown in a photo that combines visible-light and infrared images, is emitted in several steps from a dying star, in the process of becoming a dense white dwarf. The hot star excites that material that "lifted off" and makes it glow.
May 1, 2025 at 12:21 AM
fraknoi.bsky.social
Beautiful new #HubbleTelescope image of the "death-shroud nebula" with catalog designation #NGC2899. The central star is giving off its outer layers in dying. What does the cavity in the gas look like to you?
#astronomy #astroedu #space #spacephotos #astroimaging #astronomyphotos #sciencephotos
Planetary nebula NGC 2899 glows from the energy of the hot white dwarf star in the center. The cavity in the expelled gas resembles the shape of a moth. The shape may be the result of the fact that the dying star that gave rise to the nebula orbits around a companion star in the center. The whole nebula is more than 2 lightyears across.
April 24, 2025 at 7:42 PM
fraknoi.bsky.social
128 new moons have recently been identified around Saturn, bringing its total number of moons to a record-breaking 274. Some of the new moons orbit Saturn backward, indicating they're captured and not original.
#astronomy #astroedu #planetaryscience #NASA #space #Saturn #spacephotos #spacenews
Saturn casts a shadow on its magnificent ring system in this image taken from NASA's Cassini orbiter in 2016.
April 7, 2025 at 4:48 PM
fraknoi.bsky.social
#Hubble telescope image: NGC3350, a spiral galaxy, 40 million lightyears away. The bright central star is actually in our own Milky Way, just 10,000 LY away. It's a chance superposition.
#astronomy #astroedu #space #spacephotography #scienceimages #spacephotos #astrophotography #HST #astronomyimages
Spiral Galaxy NGC 5330, with clear spiral arms. It seems to have a bright star near its center, but that star is actually in our own Milky Way, much closer to us. It's a chance alignment.
March 28, 2025 at 9:59 PM
fraknoi.bsky.social
Brand new #JamesWebbTelescope image of the outflow from a young star, with a #galaxy far, far away, at its upper left tip. In this infrared view, heated dust regions glow reddish.
#astronomy #astroedu #space #spacephotos #astronomyimages #science #sciencephotography #astrophotos #spaceimages #JWST
Infrared image of a Herbig-Haro object -- the outflow from a young star just settling down from its formation process. At its tip in the upper left, resembling a crown, is a much more distant spiral galaxy, which we see face-on. There are also galaxies visible in other parts of this wonderful James Webb Space Telescope image.
March 24, 2025 at 7:37 PM
fraknoi.bsky.social
In this remarkable image, Rob Gendler combines #Hubble telescope and ESO infrared data to show the dark Horsehead Nebula in Orion and a bright region of glowing gas that reminds me of a bulldog face.
#astronomy #astroedu #space #spacephotos #astronomyimages #sciencephotos #spacephotography #science
This color image shows the Horsehead Nebula, a pillar of dark dust that resembles a horse's head, in the context of the neighborhood it is found in -- a region full of cosmic "raw material" -- gas and dust.
March 21, 2025 at 7:21 PM
fraknoi.bsky.social
This beautiful image of the Trifid Nebula, assembled by Rob Gendler, shows lanes of dark dust trisecting the glowing gas. This is a region of new star formation some 9000 lightyears away.
#astronomy #astroedu #space #spacephotos #spacephotography #scienceimages #astronomyphotos #nebulas #science
In this glowing star-forming nebula, three lanes of dust seen to divide it into thirds. The gas is set to glow by energetic young stars within.
March 18, 2025 at 9:51 PM
fraknoi.bsky.social
Another favorite #astronomyimage -- the cloud of cosmic raw material (glowing gas and dark dust) that is sometimes nicknamed the Boogeyman nebula because of the threatening dark figure you can see within.
#astronomy #astroedu #science #space #spacephotos #astronomicalpictures #sciencephotos #scary
This huge cloud of cosmic "raw material" -- bright gas and dark dust -- is sometimes called the "boogeyman nebula" because it looks like there is a threatening dark figure in it.
March 4, 2025 at 11:55 PM
lauradidio14.bsky.social
Stunning!!! #SpacePhotos
astrojaz.bsky.social Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · Jan 19
my current favorite jwst images 🌌
A star cluster is shown inside a large nebula of many-coloured gas and dust. The material forms dark ridges and peaks of gas and dust surrounding the cluster, lit on the inner side, while layers of diffuse, translucent clouds blanket over them. Around and within the gas, a huge number of distant galaxies can be seen, some quite large, as well as a few stars nearer to us which are very large and bright. The image is divided horizontally by an undulating line between a cloudscape forming a nebula along the bottom portion and a comparatively clear upper portion. Speckled across both portions is a starfield, showing innumerable stars of many sizes. The smallest of these are small, distant, and faint points of light. The largest of these appear larger, closer, brighter, and more fully resolved with 8-point diffraction spikes. The upper portion of the image is blueish, and has wispy translucent cloud-like streaks rising from the nebula below. The orangish cloudy formation in the bottom half varies in density and ranges from translucent to opaque. The stars vary in color, the majority of which, have a blue or orange hue. The cloud-like structure of the nebula contains ridges, peaks, and valleys – an appearance very similar to a mountain range. Three long diffraction spikes from the top right edge of the image suggest the presence of a large star just out of view. This image of the Ring Nebula, taken by Webb’s Near-Infrared Camera, appears as a distorted doughnut. The nebula’s inner cavity hosts shades of blue and green, while the detailed ring transitions through shades of orange in the inner regions and pink in the outer region. The ring’s inner region has distinct filament elements. Stars litter the scene, with a particularly prominent star with 8 long spikes in the top right corner. An infrared light echo traveling from the lower left through the upper right of the image. The image is speckled with dozens of white stars, some showing Webb’s signature 8-point diffraction spikes, against the black background of space. The image also shows tightly packed, glowing red filaments that resemble muscle fibers or wood grain.⁣
January 19, 2025 at 4:36 AM
daveatcogs.bsky.social
Four #SpacePhotos of #Canada taken during various missions to the International Space Station (tweeted by #CSA_ASC on 10 Jul 2023). Original downloadable high-res are available via orange pins on isspix.com/ISS072 (current mission) at #Gatineau, #PortAlberni, #Kejimkujik National Park, & #Rimouski
Ottawa - Gatineau from the International Space Station. (Original tweet https://twitter.com/csa_asc/status/1678381053222744065 by Canadian Space Agency / Agence spatiale canadienne) Vancouver Island from the International Space Station. (Original tweet https://twitter.com/csa_asc/status/1678381053222744065 by Canadian Space Agency / Agence spatiale canadienne) Western Nova Scotia from the International Space Station. (Original tweet https://twitter.com/csa_asc/status/1678381053222744065 by Canadian Space Agency / Agence spatiale canadienne) Parts of the St. Lawrence River from the International Space Station. (Original tweet https://twitter.com/csa_asc/status/1678381053222744065 by Canadian Space Agency / Agence spatiale canadienne)
March 6, 2025 at 2:46 PM
kafkaesque2024.bsky.social
#NASA capturing the infinitesimal tininess of Man -and, arguably, also, our irrelevance- in the cosmic scheme of time, space, & the universe.

I'm also a big fan of these closer shots of McCandless' floating, esp. the left one. #Astro #SpaceShuttle #Photography #Spacewalk #Astronauts #SpacePhotos
April 19, 2026 at 7:33 PM
alcornews.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
Toutes les photos NASA d’Artemis II sont sur Flickr, merci à Hugo Lisoir pour le partage 📸🌕
https://www.flickr.com/photos/nasa2explore/albums/72177720307234654/with/55199984595
#space #science #artemisii #nasa #moonmission #spacephotos
Artemis II
NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Hammock Koch, and CSA astronaut Jeremy Hansen were announced Monday, April 3 as the four astronauts who will venture around the Moon on Artemis II, the first crewed mission on NASA’s path to establishing a long-term presence at the Moon for science and exploration through Artemis. The crew assignments are as follows: Commander Reid Wiseman, Pilot Victor Glover, Mission Specialist Christina Koch, Mission Specialist Jeremy Hansen.
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April 11, 2026 at 7:03 AM