Beautiful mosaics captured two days ago by Curiosity, on her way out of the Boxwork Terrain

#Mars Mar. 29, 2026 - Sol 4850
Credits images: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/fredk

#Curiosity #Sol4850 #rover #BoxworkStructure #BoxworkStructures #Boxwork #CuriosityRover #GaleCrater #AeolisMons #space #science #STEM #geology #Mastcam #landscape #panorama #photography #Astrodon

The M33 Triangulum Galaxy

Image Details:
- Imaging Scope: William Optics 61mm ZenithStar APO
- Imaging Camera: ZWO ASI2600MC Color with IR Cut filter
- Guiding Equipment: Celestron Starsense Autoguider
- Acquisition Software: Sharpcap
- Guiding Software: Celestron
- Light Frames: 72*5 mins @ 100 Gain, Temp -15C
- Dark Frames: 15*5 mins
- Stacked in Deep Sky Stacker
- Processed in PixInsight, Adobe Lightroom and Topaz Denoise

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Back to being part of the NewAthena community science working groups: https://www.the-athena-x-ray-observatory.eu/en/athena-community

🎉 🎉 🎉
Feels good to be back (I could not be part pf the official community for a bit due to work), Athena was/is such an integral part of who I am as a scientist and where I see the future of astrophysics!

#astrodon #XraysAreTheBestRays #astrophysics #NewAthena

This is RCW 86 -- a supernova remnant. In 185 AD Chinese astronomers recorded evidence of the supernova with the presence of a 'guest star'!

📷 / more info: https://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2026/rcw86/

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A long time ago in a galaxy far far away…

Another galaxy came crashing through the front door, causing all kids of mayhem. These are two big galaxies in the process of merging.

During that process they pass close to (or through) each other and the gravitational interactions stretch them and fling their constituent stars and gas far and wide. In this case, into long tidal tails, which are showing signs of star formation.

Everywhere you can see blue, hydrogen gas got stirred up and collapsed into giant hot blue stars.

This pair is know as the Antennae Galaxies and they sit about 70 million light years away in the constellation Corvus. So their crash is actually 70 million years more advanced than what we can see!

  
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