"In MACSJ0717, a 13-million-light-year-long stream of galaxies, gas and dark matter - known as a filament - is pouring into a region already full of galaxies...this flow of galaxies has caused one collision after another."
https://t.co/9ZN0sKJbZT

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"A heavy runaway star is rushing away from a nearby stellar nursery at more than 250,000 miles an hour...The homeless star is on the outskirts of the 30 Doradus Nebula, a raucous stellar breeding ground in the nearby Large Magellanic Cloud."
https://t.co/6hKFpEpCdW

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"A beautiful new image of two colliding galaxies has been released by NASA's Great Observatories. The Antennae galaxies, located about 62 million light years from Earth, are shown in this composite image..."
https://t.co/ii844Gdvk0

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I'm open for work/commissions in space and astronomy illustration and design, and I've previously worked with NASA! You can find more of my work on my site: https://t.co/5IgQXErjir
RTs are greatly appreciated! 🛰️✨

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(5) I will not divulge a long lecture on details of astronomy that most ppl here likely already know. The central point is this: The earth's axis wobbles, and as it does so, that invisible, heaven-ward pole thrusting to the north shifts. In doing so, as does the northern sky.

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In the latest bracket, Astronomy Professor Sinistra faces off against original Order of the Phoenix member Benjy Fenwick. Vote now for your favorites and they might just advance to the next round: https://t.co/ZXGCsYaF6Z

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My newest OC is Ming Aomi, the gastronomy professor at New SaggingTon University. He lounges on his tail while teaching and judges his students based on the taste of their creations just as much as their technique.

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"...Arp 273.

The larger of the spiral galaxies, known as UGC 1810, has a disk that is tidally distorted into a rose-like shape by the gravitational tidal pull of the companion galaxy below it, known as UGC 1813."
https://t.co/L041kMoWFz

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"This composite image shows the distribution of dark matter, galaxies, and hot gas in the core of the merging galaxy cluster Abell 520, formed from a violent collision of massive galaxy clusters."
https://t.co/oVLx4UMSPB

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"At a distance of just over 11 million light-years, Centaurus A contains the closest active galactic nucleus to Earth. The center is home for a supermassive black hole that ejects jets of high-speed gas into space..."
https://t.co/YwEeT3fdTl

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"This massive, young stellar grouping, called R136, is only a few million years old and resides in the 30 Doradus Nebula, a turbulent star-birth region in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way."
https://t.co/oatzU2iIGO

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Spring is in the air! As we bid adieu to winter & usher in spring, here’s a look back at some of my prized catches from the season’s bounty👇🏽😃
Top row: the California nebula and the Horsehead nebula
Bottom: the Heart and the Soul

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☆ Join the Astronomy Club

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[Join the Astronomy Club 天文部へようこそ!] Hikawa Hina(氷川日菜)

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I was a billion little pieces
Till you pulled me into focus
Astronomy in reverse
It was me who was discovered

Sleeping At Last - Venus

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SUN IS COMPLETE!! What a lovely soft lad to complete the FNaF astronomy duo 🌞💖

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Carina Nebula - NGC3372 🤩
My first image processed using narrowband data from
Processed in +
Ha - 70
Sii - 50
Oiii - 70
Total - 190 mins
Amazing to have this data on a target that I cant capture!

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