#SomewhereDeepInTheNight "What would it look like to fly past #Triton, the largest moon of planet #Neptune? Only one spacecraft has ever done this -- and the images of this dramatic encounter have been gathered into a video." NASA APOD

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap260623.html

#SomewhereDeepInTheNight " Is this what will become of our Sun? Quite possibly. The first hint of our Sun's future was discovered inadvertently in 1764. At that time, Charles Messier was compiling a list of diffuse objects not to be confused with comets. " NASA APOD

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap260622.html

#SomewhereDeepInTheNight " The original Starry Night is considered by many to be one of the three most famous paintings in the world today and a statement about the wonders of the night sky. Today is (roughly) the anniversary of the morning that van Gogh saw the sky that he later painted in his version of Starry Night. " NASA APOD

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap260619.html

#SomewhereDeepInTheNight " The image combines optical data from the PanSTARRS telescopes in Hawaii (background stars in red, green, and blue), radio from the MeerKAT telescope in South Africa (large red cloud) and X-rays from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and ESA’s XMM-Newton (shown in blue)." NASA APOD

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap260618.html

#SomewhereDeepInTheNight "The Hamster Wheel Nebula (Longmore 8) was discovered by Andrew Longmore in 1976 as a part of a larger survey of the southern sky. This survey employed several improvements in photographic technology, including the use of highly sensitive film, to capture deeper and fainter objects on plates that were examined by eye and catalogued. " NASA APOD

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap260617.html

#SomewhereDeepInTheNight "The violet-light image brings up the texture of the backdrop: Saturn's clouds. #Cassini orbited Saturn from 2004 until mid-2017, when the robotic spacecraft was directed to dive into #Saturn to keep it from contaminating any moons. " NASA APOD

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap260616.html

#SomewhereDeepInTheNight "M16 is actually a combination of several celestial objects. NGC 6611 is the young star cluster that appears to peak out beneath the Eagle’s “wings”. The ultraviolet light from these stars ionizes the surrounding gas, creating the emission nebula IC 4703." NASA APOD

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap260610.html

#SomewhereDeepInTheNight "In star-forming regions like this, radiation and winds from the star sculpt thick clouds of hydrogen gas into eerie, almost supernatural arrangements. As they shine, they also ionize the hydrogen, giving the scene an irridescent, red glow, that’s both inviting and frightening. "

https://www.europesays.com/uk/990966/

#SomewhereDeepInTheNight: "Today’s image features the Headphone Nebula, also known as PK 164 +31.1 or Jones-Emberson 1. This planetary nebula, the remnant of a dying Sun-like star, faintly occupies an angular region of the Lynx constellation about 1/5th the diameter of the full moon. " NASA APOD

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap260527.html

#SomewhereDeepInTheNight "The upper galaxy might be more photogenic, but the lower galaxy is more unusual. The galaxy up top is NGC 3660, a spiral galaxy similar to our own Milky Way galaxy in that it has several bright blue spiral arms and a central bar of stars, dust, and gas. Captured by chance in the featured deep and colorful image, surprisingly, is SN 2026cff, a supernova found just to the right of the central bar. " NASA APOD

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap260526.html