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Daniel Pomarède @pomarede.bsky.social · 2h

#APOD Astronomy Picture of the Day

Comet C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) captured from Slovenia about a week ago.

Credit: Uroš Fink www.urosfink.com

www.star.ucl.ac.uk/~apod/apod/a... 🔭🧪

Comet C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) with a tree in the foreground standing on some grassy ridge.

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Jean-Luc Dauvergne @jldauvergne.bsky.social · 6h

Superbe la config de ce matin. Avec un bon seeing ça aurait été encore mieux mais il n'y pas de miracle par vent d'est.

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La Science, CQFD @sciencecqfd.bsky.social · 5h

Vous êtes désormais 20 000 à nous suivre sur ce compte ! 🥳
💜Merci à toutes et à tous pour votre confiance💜
⚛️🦖On vous réserve encore plein de belles émissions alors restez à l'écoute !☄️🌳

a man with glasses is covering his mouth in front of a thank you sign

ALT: a man with glasses is covering his mouth in front of a thank you sign

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Daniel Pomarède @pomarede.bsky.social · 4h

360° panorama captured just 12 hours ago by Curiosity, from within a trough of the boxwork structure

▶️ zoomhub.net/w2kgN
▶️ www.360cities.net/image/curios...

#Mars Oct. 12, 2025 - Sol 4687 🧪🔭
Credit images: NASA/JPL-Caltech

A black and white mosaic of 20 images capturing a Martian landscape, with some elements of the Mars rover Curiosity displayed in the foreground. The tracks of rover descending into the trough can be seen on the left hand side of the mosaic.

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Lyndie Chiou @lyndie.bsky.social · 13h

Here are the remnants of a massive star that ignited in 1054. Ancient astronomers marveled at how they could see the supernova even during the day. All that's left today is the faint, colorful smudge called the Crab Nebula.

Image credit: my tiny telescope - only 2 hours!

#science #astronomy 🔭👩🏾‍🔬

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Scott Kardel aka Palomar Skies @palomarskies.bsky.social · 20h

Here's about 10 minutes of motion of Comet C/2025 R2 (SWAN) from last night against the background stars when it was about 29 million miles from Earth. 🔭

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Daniel Pomarède @pomarede.bsky.social · 22h

Weekend read: Métal Hurlant n°2

April 1975. Cover Art by Philippe Druillet. Includes: Harzak by Mœbius, Gail and AAARRRZZZ by Ph. Druillet, Going Home by Richard Corben, Les armées du conquérant by Jean-Pierre Dionnet and Jean-Claude Gal. Absolute legends!

@metalhurlantoff.bsky.social

A cover of the Métal Hurlant magazine, produced by "Les Humanoïdes Associés", with cover art by Philippe Druillet, featuring a red-eyed monstrous character seemingly being tortured by some refined metallic mechanism.

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Daniel Pomarède @pomarede.bsky.social · 1d

This Perseverance Image of the Week is part of a larger, 80-images mosaic, that captures a few other outstanding, wind-carved rocks.

➡️ zoomhub.net/lnGgm

#Mars Oct. 5, 2025 - Sol 1645 🧪🔭
Credit images: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU

A mosaic of ochre-toned images capturing rocks and sands somewhere on the rim of Jezero Crater.

A wind-carved rock that stands out on somewhere on the rim of Jezero Crater.

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Daniel Pomarède @pomarede.bsky.social · 22h

Weekend read: Métal Hurlant n°2

April 1975. Cover Art by Philippe Druillet. Includes: Harzak by Mœbius, Gail and AAARRRZZZ by Ph. Druillet, Going Home by Richard Corben, Les armées du conquérant by Jean-Pierre Dionnet and Jean-Claude Gal. Absolute legends!

@metalhurlantoff.bsky.social

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Daniel Pomarède @pomarede.bsky.social · 1d

"You don't have to claim that they're aliens to make these exciting."

We’re about to find many more interstellar interlopers - here’s how to visit one 🔭🚀🧪
arstechnica.com/features/202... @arstechnica.com #3IATLAS

We’re about to find many more interstellar interlopers—here’s how to visit one

“You don’t have to claim that they’re aliens to make these exciting.”…

arstechnica.com

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Landru79 @landru79.bsky.social · 1d

James #Webb Space Telescope #JWST

A Census to the Bottom of the IMF in W3: Atmospheres, Disks, Accretion, and Demographics

TARG: #W3-JWST-1A-FINAL
2024-10-10
PI: Best, William
NIRCAM f405n-f444w f335m f300m

yuval-harpaz.github.io/astro/jwst_l...

NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI/j. Roger

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Landru79 @landru79.bsky.social · 1d

Un recorte con el terreno estabilizado

#NASA's #Mars #Perseverance rover

Sol 1649 Oct. 10, 2025: Front Left Hazard Avoidance Camera (Hazcam)
mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/mul...

NASA/JPL-Caltech/j. Roger

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Daniel Pomarède @pomarede.bsky.social · 1d

This Perseverance Image of the Week is part of a larger, 80-images mosaic, that captures a few other outstanding, wind-carved rocks.

➡️ zoomhub.net/lnGgm

#Mars Oct. 5, 2025 - Sol 1645 🧪🔭
Credit images: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU

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Daniel Pomarède @pomarede.bsky.social · 1d

Mars Perseverance Raw Image of the Week

This photo was selected by public vote and featured as "Image of the Week" for Week 243 (Oct. 5 - 11, 2025) of the Perseverance rover mission on Mars.

Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU
mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/mul... #Mars 🧪🔭

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Eric Chapelle @ericchapelle2.bsky.social · 1d

Des arbres comme les gardiens silencieux des dernières lueurs du jour…

Le Soleil, est entre 0° et 6° sous l’horizon, éclaire encore les hautes couches de l’atmosphère, créant ces dégradés de bleu, rose et orange, et transformant chaque silhouette en une ombre chinoise.
📷 E. Chapelle
#astronomy

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ToughSF @toughsf.bsky.social · 1d

New Horizons makes its mark on history as it speeds past Pluto, Charon and Arrokoth.
Excellent #space #art by @gtgraphics.bsky.social
www.artstation.com/artwork/Zl98PN

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Daniel Pomarède @pomarede.bsky.social · 1d

"You don't have to claim that they're aliens to make these exciting."

We’re about to find many more interstellar interlopers - here’s how to visit one 🔭🚀🧪
arstechnica.com/features/202... @arstechnica.com #3IATLAS

We’re about to find many more interstellar interlopers—here’s how to visit one

“You don’t have to claim that they’re aliens to make these exciting.”…

arstechnica.com

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Scott Kardel aka Palomar Skies @palomarskies.bsky.social · 1d

Here’s a comet that’s out in the evening sky, the blue-green fuzz ball known as Comet C/2025 R2 (SWAN). 🔭

A telescopic view of stars. There is a comet at center. It looks like a small blue-green ball of fuzz.

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Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social · 1d

NGC 613 - From Judy Schmidt (geckzilla.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/2gMssee

Spiral galaxy NGC 613 and the search for the progenitor of SN 2016gkg. Pockets of star formation are visible as green nebulas of gas in this near-infrared and visible image. The galaxy's bar is quite distinct and completely within the bounds of the image, but much of the outer arms are not included. I will mark the approximate position of the supernova with a Flickr annotation. I find the circumnuclear ring of star formation to be especially beautiful in this image, though you'll have to zoom in to see it clearly.

I spent a good number of days working on this, which feels incredibly slow compared to the pace I've been keeping with the single filter (grayscale) images of galaxies from the past couple of months. There were a whole lot of cosmic rays to deal with, and I did my best, though there are still a few hiding here and there. I bumped up the saturation a good bit along with the clarity and dust texture of the nucleus.

Data from the following proposal were used to create this image:
The Progenitor of Supernova 2016gkg

Red: ACS/WFC F814W
Green: ACS/WFC F606W
Blue: ACS/WFC F435W

North is 25.19° counter-clockwise from up.

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Jackie Branc @jackiebranc.site · 1d

🔴 #Mars #Perseverance Sol 1646: Left #Mastcam-Z Camera / enhanced

Oct. 6, 2025 (Sol 1646), 11:22:51

source image: mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/mul...

Image Credit: #NASA / #JPL-Caltech / #ASU / Jackie Branc

#RedPlanet

Mars Perseverance Sol 1646: Left Mastcam-Z Camera / enhanced.
NASA's Mars Perseverance rover acquired this image using its Left Mastcam-Z camera. Mastcam-Z is a pair of cameras located high on the rover's mast.

Oct. 6, 2025 (Sol 1646), 11:22:51

source image: https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/multimedia/raw-images/ZL0_1646_0813059136_864EBY_N0790870ZCAM04250_1100LMJ

Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/Jackie Branc

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Scott Kardel aka Palomar Skies @palomarskies.bsky.social · 1d

1/2 Here's an image from this morning 11 October 2025 of Comet C/2025 A6 (Lemmon). It's an eight-minute exposure with a Celestron Origin telescope. 🔭

A telescopic image of a comet. The comet's greenish-white coma is near the lower right. Its tail extends upward and to the left.

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Daniel Pomarède @pomarede.bsky.social · 1d

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Daniel Pomarède @pomarede.bsky.social · 2d

* Curiosity Sol 4683

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Daniel Pomarède @pomarede.bsky.social · 2d

One Planet, Two Rovers

1. Perseverance Supercam RMI - Sol 1650
2. Curiosity Chemcam RMI - Sol 4693

Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/LANL/CNES/IRAP; NASA/JPL-Caltech/LANL 🧪 #Mars #PlanetSci

A Martian rock with a smooth and shiny texture captured by the Perseverance rover with its the SuperCam Remote Micro-Imager. October 11, 2025.

A Martian rock with a bright texture and other darker rocks, captured by the Curiosity rover with its the ChemCam Remote Micro-Imager. October 8, 2025.

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Daniel Pomarède @pomarede.bsky.social · 2d

* Curiosity Sol 4683

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Daniel Pomarède @pomarede.bsky.social · 2d

One Planet, Two Rovers

1. Perseverance Supercam RMI - Sol 1650
2. Curiosity Chemcam RMI - Sol 4693

Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/LANL/CNES/IRAP; NASA/JPL-Caltech/LANL 🧪 #Mars #PlanetSci

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