NOIRLab image of the week
Rubin’s Giant Eye on the Southern Sky
Credit: RubinObs/NOIRLab/SLAC/NSF/DOE/AURA/P. Horálek (Institute of Physics in Opava)
https://noirlab.edu/public/images/iotw2542a/
#Rubin #RubinObservatory #MilkyWay #Astronomy #Astrodon #astrophotography #NOIRLab #IOTW #Photography #nightsky #nightskyphotography
NOIRLab image of the week
Research on the Ridge
Featuring Vera C. Rubin Observatory, Gemini South Telescope, SOAR Telescope, and the former Calypso Telescope, now repurposed as Rubin Auxiliary Telescope.
Credit: O. Bonin/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Release date: Jan. 15, 2025
https://noirlab.edu/public/images/iotw2503a/
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NOIRLab image of the week
Southwest of Tucson, the Quinlan Mountains majestically rise to an altitude of 2100 meters in the Schuk Toak District of the Tohono O’odham Nation. Atop the central peak in this image sits the Kitt Peak National Observatory.
📷 taken from the eastern side of Tucson on the Aqua Caliente Trail. Credit: KPNO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/R. Sparks (NSF NOIRLab)
https://noirlab.edu/public/images/iotw2502a/
#NOIRLab #KittPeak #Tucson #Arizona #Astronomy #Astrodon #telescope #photography #sunset #iotw
NOIRLab image of the week: Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS over the McMath-Pierce Solar Telescope
Credit: KPNO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/R. Sparks
https://noirlab.edu/public/images/iotw2440a/
#NOIRLab #comet #KittPeak #Tucson #Arizona #Astronomy #Astrodon #teslescope #photography #astrophotography #sunrise #iotw
NOIRLab image of the week: The Tidal Tales of NGC 922
Credits: Dark Energy Survey/DOE/FNAL/DECam/CTIO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA
https://noirlab.edu/public/images/iotw2439a/
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NOIRLab image of the week
The Unfurling Spiral Arms of NGC 3981
Credit: Dark Energy Survey/DOE/FNAL/DECam/CTIO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA; Image processing: R. Colombari & M. Zamani (NSF’s NOIRLab)
https://noirlab.edu/public/images/iotw2425a/
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On the first day of the 15th annual European Space Weather Week, this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope fittingly shows a striking occurrence of celestial weather in the outer reaches of the Solar System: an aurora on Uranus.Auroras, also known as polar lights, are a relative…
A portion of Comet #67P as viewed by @ESA_Rosetta on 22 September 2014. Two years later, on 22 September 2016 Rosetta concluded its trailblazing mission - @esascience #IOTW selected & processed by @landru79.
Read more: http://www.esa.int/spaceinimages/Images/2018/10/Comet_landscape https://twitter.com/esa/status/1046720139620745217/photo/1 source: https://twitter.com/esa/status/1046720139620745217
On 30 September 2016, ESA’s Rosetta spacecraft came closer than ever to the target it had studied from afar for more than two years, concluding its mission with a controlled impact onto the surface of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko (67P/C-G).This second comet landing followed the pioneer…
An odd-shaped formation of gas and dust at the centre of the Milky Way, captured by the far-infrared cameras on board ESA’s Herschel space observatory. The nearly continuous strip of dense and cold clumps of material forms an infinity symbol, or sideways 8, that is a few hundred light yea…
Coming up to one year since @CassiniSaturn’s spectacular mission end, @HUBBLE_space is still checking in on the ringed planet and its moons from time to time. #Saturn features in this week's @esascience #IOTW
Details: http://www.esa.int/spaceinimages/Images/2018/08/Saturn_and_its_moons_at_opposition https://twitter.com/esa/status/1039067211321757698/photo/1 source: https://twitter.com/esa/status/1039067211321757698
Cassini ended its 13-year mission at Saturn on 15 September 2017 when it plunged into the gas giant's atmosphere, but the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope is still keeping an eye on the ringed planet.This is a composite image taken by Hubble on 6 June 2018 showing a fully-illuminated Satur…
Daniel Pomarède
ESA