Astronomyandgalaxies - GalaxyBrain

C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) 2024-10-23, clearest photo ever taken of a comet!

Orion Nebula photo 114 Years apart

The 1901 photo was taken by George Ritchey at Yerkes Observatory, using a 24 Inch (609mm) reflecting telescope. Amazing how far Astronomy has come

Let’s fly into Jupiter! Does this ball of gas have a surface? Let’s see!

Life cycle of our Sun, from beginning to end~

2024 Solar Eclipse from the ISS.

(Credit: NASA Johnson)

Launch of Gemini 6 Titan II (SC6/GLV-6 12561) from Launch Complex 19. "The Gemini VI, scheduled as a two-day mission, was launched from Pad 19, carrying astronauts Walter M. Schirra Jr., Command Pilot, and Thomas P. Stafford, Pilot. Gemini VI rendezvoused with Gemini VII, already orbiting the Earth."

Date: December 15, 1965

NASA ID: KSC-65PC-0161, S65-44293, S65-59987

Here's a rare mind blowing moment in the astronomy world. Clearest images ever taken of Equatorial Ridge on Saturn's moon 'Iapetus'.

Supernova 1987A

The remnant of Supernova 1987A, located in a neighboring galaxy called the Large Magellanic Cloud, appears at the center of this image. The red, gaseous clouds that surround it fuel a firestorm of new star formation.