Amateur Astronomie foto van de dag: NGC 3169: A Cosmic Dance of Gravitational Tides. Foto info: https://www.aapod2.com #astronomie #sterrenkunde #fotografie #sterrenkijken #aapod #heelal #universum #sterren #astronomy

#Moonquakes Surprisingly Common
#Astronomy #Picture of the Day

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap250406.html

#astronomy Lunar close-up photographed with my Seestar S50 at 4x magnification.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/philippughastronomer/54428272327/in/dateposted-public/

APOD from 2025-04-06

Moonquakes Surprisingly Common

Apollo seismometer data from 1972-77 detected 62 moonquakes near the surface, some strong enough to shift furniture. Unlike #Earth's quakes, the #moon's stiff rock vibrates longer. Causes may include Earth's tidal gravity and heat. Future #lunar homes must be quake-resistant. Buzz Aldrin is shown with a seismometer in an image.

HD image at https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap250406.html#space #astronomy #universe

Very nice documentary about astronomy and science in practice
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt21054818/

ESA releases first set of Euclid images and data - NASASpaceFlight.com

https://sh.itjust.works/post/35634175

When the moon makes it too hard to take images of anything else...
#space #astronomy #astrodon

Question for people who study #neutrinos :

Do you have a preferred funny nickname for neutrinos? If not, here are some ideas:

- Neuts (newts)
- Rinos (ree-noes)
- Trinos (tree-noes)
- Nuterinos (like Ned Flanders would say)
- Neu-nues (new news)
- Neu-nos (new noes)
- Tri-tris (tree trees)

I would make a poll, but their are too many choices.

(05 Apr) Incredible photo shows supermassive black hole blowing a jet of matter into interstellar space

This galaxy’s central black hole appears to be a "messy eater" as its interstellar scraps are strewn into space.

https://s.faithcollapsing.com/wrn56
Archive: ais: https://archive.md/wip/TPgft ia: https://s.faithcollapsing.com/67ffj

#astronomy #black-holes #space

PGC026479: https://sga.legacysurvey.org/group/PGC026479

I have recently seen an advertisement for a so-called "smart telescope". Yet another screen that you can drag along with you to destroy your night vision and natural experience of space-time. It's absurd! If you want to see digitised, stacked, colourised, opinionated, post-effects-processed, images of the stars and planets, you can simply go online in the comfort of your own, climate-controlled, home. You go outside, often braving the cold, with an optical telescope not to look at light that has been interpreted, synthesised, digitised, and regurgitated best as it can from a bepixeled man-made device, but to experience the pure joy that can be felt from seeing the light of the distant stars and planets with your own eyes! To know, within yourself, that these exact same photons, emitted by a star hundreds, thousands, or billions, of years ago, travelled unimpeded, through vast, empty, space, and ended their seemingly eternal journey in your own eyes. The universe, becoming one with itself once more. Star stuff absorbing and merging with star stuff. Pure. Raw. Just you, and what is. There is awe, beauty, and the essence of what it is to be alive, in that.
#astronomy
#nature
#being
#starstuff

A bit of Pluto
#pluto #nasa #space #astronomy #science #plutopics

#astronomy Lunar close-up photographed with my Seestar S50 at 4x magnification.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/philippughastronomer/54429126791/in/dateposted-public/

Sirius in Canis Major is particularly bright tonight, flashing white and red #canismajor #sirius #astronomy

A distant galaxy is home to a ravenous supermassive black hole that appears to be playing with its food. Located over 12 million light-years from Earth, a spiral galaxy known as NGC 4945 is blowing powerful winds of material from the supermassive black hole located at its core. @LiveScience has more on this “messy eater.”

https://flip.it/b5q9OU

A bit of Pluto
#pluto #nasa #space #astronomy #science #plutopics

Did anybody see a little dot of light travelling downwards past the Great Bear? At 21:12 this evening, UK time. I thought it was a plane but it seemed to be too high to be one and shooting stars normally burn out very quickly. #astronomy #ufo

"Stargazing 4" by XKCD comic (mirror bots @xkcd @xkcdbot ) - If you ever find a planetarium presentation this bad, don't just post a low review. Get a bulldozer and bury the place with some of that sand they referred to. https://xkcd.com/3072/ #astronomy #oops #WTF #humor

PGC2069084: https://sga.legacysurvey.org/group/PGC2069084

A bit of Pluto
#pluto #nasa #space #astronomy #science #plutopics