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The Aurora Borealis As Seen From Space...

Enceladus must really like Saturn, because it put a ring on it 😅 Saturn's icy moon Enceladus sprays water vapor and icy particles from its subsurface ocean out into space. These particles form one of the rings around Saturn—its faint, wispy E ring. https://t.co/4wyn5EO0zL

The most detailed image of the Sun in history. The Solar Orbiter took a series of frames from a tiny distance of 75 million kilometers by the standards of space. Then they were combined into one mosaic.

Does anyone know the name of this?

Day moon

Perseids Meteor Shower 2020 Panorama / Blend - Roques de García / Tenerife [1980x1570]

Low in Monday's dawn the waning crescent Moon is below Venus, Mars, and Saturn, which now form an isosceles triangle. This is the time of year when Orion declines in the southwest after dark, with his Belt roughly horizontal. https://t.co/DdQwR3VBk8 https://t.co/sIX7CFUoBL

My most recent take of the full moon. Cumbria March 2022

These are my late fathers. I never knew him but they were in his things. What could they be and what should I do with them?

it's not much but It's pretty cool.

The Lemon Slice Nebula, a planetary nebula in Camelopardalis. Image Credit: Howard Bond ( Space Telescope Science Institute), Robin Ciardullo (Pennsylvania State University) and NASA/ESA

Full Moon by Timothy Elson.

My re-process on the stunning APOD of the Horse Head Nebula and the Flame Nebula, A Lion in Orion. Source in comments.

Stitched 2 sky astro shots.

Inspired to share by that other cloud-eating moon post.