Space Object

Hello everyone, here is my capture of the comet C/2025 R3 (PanSTARRS). This comet was discovered in September 2025, and it is at its brightest right now, potentially visible to the naked eye in dark skies before sunrise in the east. I used my Celestron RASA telescope and ZWO ASI533MC color camera.

Two powerful views of the same giant — Jupiter, revealed in different light.

At the top, the Hubble Space Telescope captures Jupiter in visible light, where its iconic bands stretch across the planet in shades of white, beige, and soft reds. The Great Red Spot — a storm larger than Earth — swirls with centuries of energy, while smaller storms and turbulent patterns constantly reshape the atmosphere.

Below, the James Webb Space Telescope unveils a deeper, more dynamic Jupiter. Observing in infrared, Webb exposes hidden layers of clouds, glowing auroras near the poles, and faint ring structures that are nearly invisible in visible light. The familiar becomes otherworldly — a planet alive with heat, motion, and energy.

Together, these images tell a richer story. Hubble shows us what Jupiter looks like. Webb shows us how it works.

Same planet. Different light. A deeper understanding.

Image Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI

It took 9 years and 3 billion miles for NASA's New Horizons spacecraft to finally capture this view.

You are looking at Pluto's mighty Ice mountains.

At the edge of the Solar System this is what the view is on a distant world.

On July 14, 2015, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft did something no human-made object had ever done before — it flew past Pluto and sent back images that left the entire world speechless. 😮

These are the Hillary Montes — towering mountains of water ice, rising up to 3,500 meters high, sitting on the edge of a vast frozen nitrogen plain called Sputnik Planitia.
Let that sink in for a second. 👇

⛰️ Mountains. On Pluto.
❄️ Made of water ice so hard it behaves like rock.
🌡️ In temperatures of -230°C (-382°F)
🌌 3 BILLION miles from where you're sitting right now.
And we almost didn't go. The New Horizons mission was nearly cancelled multiple times due to budget cuts. A group of dedicated scientists fought for over a decade just to get this spacecraft launched.

Think about that. Some people spent their entire careers working toward one single flyby — just 9 hours of close encounter after a 9-year journey — knowing they'd only get one shot.
No second chances. No going back.

And they nailed it. 🎯

This image isn't just a photograph. It's proof of what humans are capable of when we dare to look beyond our own backyard. When we ask "what's out there?" and actually go find out.
Pluto was considered a cold, dead, boring rock for 76 years.

New Horizons proved every single assumption wrong.
There are mountains. There are plains. There are signs of geological activity. There may even be a subsurface ocean beneath that ice. 🌊

We live in the most extraordinary time in human history — where we can send a piano-sized spacecraft to the edge of our solar system and whisper back to Earth:
"You won't believe what I found." 🚀

❤️

EVEN THE GALAXY GLOWS PURPLE 💜🌌

LOOK: NASA shared a stunning photo of the spiral of stars called Messier 58, located about 62 million light-years from Earth and the most distant object in the Messier catalog, which is a collection of 110 astronomical objects that are bright enough to be seen by a small telescope.

In 1 hour and 46 minutes, something happens to the shadow on your planet that only occurs twice a year.

Right now, the line between day and night on Earth is tilted. It has been tilted for 6 months. The Southern Hemisphere has been receiving more sunlight. The Northern Hemisphere has been in a deficit. The shadow line — called the terminator — has been running diagonally across the planet since September 22, cutting continents at an angle, giving different latitudes wildly unequal amounts of daylight.

At 6:46 AM Pacific Time this morning, that line straightens. The terminator rotates to a perfect vertical — running from the North Pole to the South Pole in a straight line, perpendicular to the equator. For a few hours centered on this moment, every point on Earth's surface — from the Arctic to the Antarctic — sits exactly on the boundary between the lit half and the dark half simultaneously.

Every city on Earth will see the Sun rise almost exactly due East this morning. Every city will see it set almost exactly due West this evening. Day and night will be equal at every latitude at the same time.

This is not a metaphor. This is orbital geometry. Earth reaches the precise point in its 940-million-kilometer annual journey where its axial tilt is perpendicular to the Sun.

It happens in 1 hour and 46 minutes.

6:46 AM Pacific Time. March 20, 2026. The shadow goes vertical.

Amazing photo 😲🌌✨