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Khurram Wadee ✅Feb 4

#SpiralGalaxy #NGC1512: #WideField
#Astronomy #Picture of the Day

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap260204.html

#APOD #Galaxy

Zorz Studios Jan 25

Through a cosmic lens: Hubble and #JWST reveal a stunning Einstein ring: https://zorz.it/BKLSV

#SoumyadeepMukherjee #SpacePhotography #astronomers #HubbleSpaceTelescope #EllipticalGalaxy #SpiralGalaxy #CosmicLens #MilkyWay #EinsteinRing

Charring Auh Jan 2

image features the public sculpture #SpiralGalaxy by artist #JohnDavidMooney, installed outside the Adler Planetarium in Chicago.

Daniel Fischer Dec 3

A grand-design spiral galaxy 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang with JWST: https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2025/11/aa51689-24/aa51689-24.html -> JWST discovers massive grand-design #SpiralGalaxy from the universe's infancy: https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1107899

A grand-design spiral galaxy 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang with JWST | Astronomy & Astrophysics (A&A)

Astronomy & Astrophysics (A&A) is an international journal which publishes papers on all aspects of astronomy and astrophysics

Khurram Wadee ✅Dec 2

#M77: #SpiralGalaxy with an Active Centre
#Astronomy #Picture of the Day

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap251202.html

#APOD #Galaxy

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six_grandfathers_mountain Nov 29

@universal_sci
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#NGC772 aka #Arp78 or #Fiddlehead
#spiralgalaxies #SpiralGalaxy

Not funny to try to imagine that white blob is NOT a white blob, it's many suns, when you zoom far in.
The only way to zoom way in, is to use your imagination.
Being a human, we have that skill, ⭕it's 200,000 lyr in diameter

@HeliosPi
Thx 4 orig Uni Sci boost

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NGC_772

106 million lyr away, discovered by German-British astronomer #WilliamHerschel #Herschel in 1785

Brian Ragle Oct 12

Photo 1: Pacman Nebula (NGC 281)
Captured with a DWARF 3 smart telescope from Tennessee skies, this image reveals the Pacman Nebula’s glowing clouds of hydrogen and dark dust lanes devouring starlight like its pixelated namesake. The nebula sits about 9,200 light-years away in Cassiopeia and is a stellar nursery where new suns ignite amid cosmic chaos. The black "mouth" cutting through the red haze is a dense molecular cloud silhouetted against ionized gas—proof the universe has both beauty and bite.
Hashtags: #Astrophotography #DWARF3 #Nebula #PacmanNebula #NGC281 #Cassiopeia #DeepSky #Cosmos #SpacePhotography #AstroGear #TelescopeLife #StarNursery #AstroImaging #NightSky

Photo 2: Triangulum Galaxy (M33)
Captured with a DWARF 2 telescope, this shot of the Triangulum Galaxy—our Local Group neighbor about 2.7 million light-years away—shows its faint spiral arms swirling through a sea of stars. The pale green glow reveals hydrogen regions where new stars are born, while the galaxy’s subtle rotation hints at its cosmic dance with the Andromeda and Milky Way galaxies. Even from our tiny vantage point, this spiral whispers: everything spins, everything changes, everything burns bright before fading.
Hashtags: #TriangulumGalaxy #M33 #DWARF2 #DeepSkyAstro #GalaxyPhotography #LocalGroup #Astrophotography #Cosmos #SpaceArt #SpiralGalaxy #StarFormation #AstronomyLovers #TelescopeView