Scorpio, Milky Way And Jupiter

Marian Lake, Fiordlands, New Zealand | dylangehlken_photography

Orion rising over Death Valley // Brett Nickeson

A few easily-spotted nebulae include Barnard's Loop and the Orion Nebula

“There’s as many atoms in a single molecule of your DNA as there are stars in the typical galaxy. We are, each of us, a little universe.”

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Neil deGrasse Tyson, Cosmos

that is amazing

Corona Australis

The Full Moon of 2021 via NASA https://ift.tt/3FWxNTm

Every Full Moon of 2021 shines in this year-spanning astrophoto project, a composite portrait of the familiar lunar nearside at each brightest lunar phase. Arranged by moonth, the year progresses in stripes beginning at the top. Taken with the same camera and lens the stripes are from Full Moon images all combined at the same pixel scale. The stripes still looked mismatched, but they show that the Full Moon’s angular size changes throughout the year depending on its distance from Kolkata, India, planet Earth. The calendar month, a full moon name, distance in kilometers, and angular size is indicated for each stripe. Angular size is given in minutes of arc corresponding to 1/60th of a degree. The largest Full Moon is near a perigee or closest approach in May. The smallest is near an apogee, the most distant Full Moon in December. Of course the full moons of May and November also slid into Earth’s shadow during 2021’s two lunar eclipses.

(Published January 01, 2022)

Mont-Blanc and Aiguille du Midi, white & cold majesty contrasting with warm fall colors over Chamonix - end of October 2020, while France is locked down again

NGC 602 In The Flying Lizard Nebula

The Orion Nebula (M42), M43 and the Running Man Nebula.

Credit: Chad Quandt

Sunset on Pluto