A meteor streaks through the Pleiades, leaving a green glow from vaporized metals. 🌠

This chance capture happened during an hour-long exposure in al-Ula, Saudi Arabia. Alongside the bright blue stars and reflection dust of M45, the surprise visitor transformed the photo into something extraordinary.

📷 Yousif Alqasimi & Essa Al Jasmi
📅 Aug 25, 2025 (APOD)

#Pleiades #M45 #Meteor #Astrophotography #StellarSnap #NightSky

A green meteor flashes across the sky — right in front of the Andromeda Galaxy.

Captured during a 2016 exposure, this meteor flared multiple times as it entered Earth’s atmosphere, likely from the Delta Aquariid shower. Behind it lies M31, 2.5 million light-years away.

📷 Fritz Helmut Hemmerich
📅 August 6, 2025 (APOD)

#MeteorShower #AndromedaGalaxy #DeltaAquariids #Astrophotography #StellarSnap

A dying star carved this tangled cloud of gas and dust.

NGC 6072, captured in infrared by the Webb Space Telescope, shows overlapping disks and outflows that hint at a chaotic past—possibly shaped by a multi-star system.

📅 Aug 5, 2025
📷 NASA / ESA / CSA / STScI / JWST
🔭 #NGC6072 #PlanetaryNebula #JWST #InfraredAstronomy #Astrophotography #StellarSnap

Faint blue arcs stretch across the sky near Andromeda. But they aren’t part of that galaxy.

SDSO 1 is now recognized as a Ghost Planetary Nebula, a newly defined class. It belongs to our own Milky Way.

Discovered by amateurs. Confirmed with 550 hours of data.

📅 Aug 4, 2025
📷 Patrick Ogle et al.
#SDSO1 #PlanetaryNebula #Andromeda #DeepSky #Astrophotography #StellarSnap

What if time moved slower… just because of where you are?

Earth vs. near Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole.

This is real. This is relativity.

Try it yourself: https://stellarsnap.space

#TimeDilation #GeneralRelativity #BlackHole #Astronomy #StellarSnap

A tiny dark cloud floats in the Eagle Nebula, known as a Bok globule.
These small, dense knots of gas and dust are some of the coldest, darkest places in the galaxy.
They may be small, but they carry the seeds of stars yet to be born.

📷 Peter Bresseler
🔗 Learn more: https://stellarsnap.space/glossary/Nebula
#BokGlobule #Nebula #EagleNebula #APOD #Astrophotography #Space #StellarSnap

📸 Supernova 2025rbs in NGC 7331

Detected on July 14, 2025rbs is a Type Ia supernova in the galaxy NGC 7331, 50 million light-years away. Likely caused by a white dwarf's thermonuclear explosion, it's now the brightest supernova in Earth's sky.

📷 Ben Godson

#Supernova2025rbs #NGC7331 #TypeIa #Astronomy #StellarSnap #DeepSky

📸 Coronal Loops on the Sun

Loops of plasma rise from the Sun’s surface, shaped by magnetic fields. These coronal loops can last for days and reach sizes big enough to surround Earth.

This panel shows four loops captured in 2024 and 2025 from Mantova, Italy, in light emitted by hydrogen.

📷 Andrea Vanoni

#CoronalLoops #SolarProminence #SunActivity #Astrophotography #StellarSnap #SpaceWeather

📸 A Helix Nebula Deep Field

The Helix Nebula (NGC 7293) looks like a giant cosmic eye, but it's actually a planetary nebula — a glowing cloud of gas from a dying Sun-like star.

This deep field image, captured over 12 hours from Greece, highlights glowing hydrogen and reveals complex knots of gas near the nebula’s edge.

📷 George Chatzifrantzis

#HelixNebula #NGC7293 #PlanetaryNebula #Astrophotography #StellarSnap #DeepSky

📸 Lightning over the Volcano of Water

Captured in July 2019, this lightning bolt strikes from antennas near the summit of Volcán de Agua in Guatemala.

Lightning forms when storm clouds build up electric charge from collisions between ice and snow. The discharge heats air hotter than the Sun’s surface.

📷 Sergio Montúfar

#Lightning #VolcanDeAgua #Guatemala #StormPhotography #Astrophotography #StellarSnap #Weather