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The International Space Station is hiding in this photo, as it passes the sun. Can you spot it?

Flower Moon on a cloudy night

Earth from lunar orbit - Apollo 15

Anyone have any links about jwst's recent discovery?

I'm trying to find more info about the implications of jwst discovering massive galaxies a mere 600my after the big bang. I just keep finding the same info and nobody is discussing what this may imply about the creation of the universe.. is the universe much older than we thought? Does the big bang need revision? Is it completely wrong? Is it an optical illusion of gravitational lensing? There is almost no discussion on the implications of such a major discovery. I want to know what the experts are thinking about this but nobody is saying much....

A collection of early Mars photographs taken by Earl C. Slipher between 1907 and 1956.

why are telescopes so expensive if it’s just glass

the price of materials is cheap. it’s just glass cut in a convex or concave shape or in a reflector it’s just mirrors. put them inside a plastic tube and all of a sudden its thousands of bucks ?

All of my paintings feature space, here's a recent one! Acrylic on Canvas (OC)

Changing up a Making Mind Acrylic on Canvas 18x24 2023

Webb Looks for Fomalhaut’s Asteroid Belt and Finds Much More

Would a Wolf-Rayet star's solar wind destroy an Earth-like planet?

There was a question here this past week about whether a supernova would destroy a whole planet, but seeing the release of Webb's imagery of WR 124 got me thinking if a planet would even survive the *precursor* to supernova. Whether that's the process of shedding 10+ solar masses of a star's material at 1000+ km/s, or the insane amount of radiation that very massive stars emit while they're just doing massive star things. Is it even possible for rocky Earth-like planets to exist for very long around supernova candidates? How about Jupiter-sized planets with strong magnetic fields? Would *any* planet survive in such an environment?

How do I identify galaxy with supernova 1a type? Is there some correlation between supernova type within galaxy and its redshift?

New JWST image: dusty debris disc around Fomalhaut

The Splinter Galaxy

The Pinwheel Galaxy, Captured From My Balcony

The Splinter Galaxy, NGC 5907

Utah's Dark Canyon complex, seen from the International Space Station