‘Amazing Astronomy’: 50 Of The Most Captivating Astronomy Pictures

Didn't even know such thing existed. Disturbingly beautiful!

NASA putting the moon back in place after maintenance

van gogh is that you?

These space size comparisons always give me mild anxiety.

His younger brother Cumulus was always calling him a show off

At least is wasn't the British Museum taking something for a change.

But we all know it's actually a crashing spaceship and aliens are gonna overrun us. Seriously: beautiful!

Is that a perfect hexagon on top of Saturn?

I just want to hug it and tell it it'll be ok.

Fun fact: in finnish nebula is "tähtisumu", literally "starfog"

Our planet is so beautiful! 😍

How cool and creepy is that! Wonder how people reacted to these events before we learnt what they were…

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“It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.” — Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot, 1994

Poor Mercury isn't feeling his best. At least he hasn't been demoted.

Cute little single parent family

Fun fact: the ratio of these two diameters matches the ratio of the Death Star to its laser canon diameter. Coincidence?

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I believe the longest a probe lasted on its surface was 19 seconds. Please correct me if I’m wrong Edit: I’m wrong

Where's the Cookie Way to dip in the Milky Way?

This is great compilation work!

Forbidden carpet

Making this hexagon business crazier

One, very distant day, this galaxy will collide with ours. According to some calculations, it's going to look somewhat like that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4disyKG7XtU

Beautiful!

Or this image, that blows my mind. If I understand correct, this is as much sky as if you hold up your pinky nail! All except a few dots here are galaxies, like five stars, rest is galaxies!! https://www.nasa.gov/content/discoveries-hubbles-deep-fields

The abandoned horseshoe bends are intriguing.

And someone is having the best view of the event :D

When you see images like this, you can see why people believed a dragon came and ate the sun.

It looks like a portal to another dimension.

Always think of this when Jupiters moons come up 7qk53itxuji41.png

Ah yes, we gotta litter everywhere including the moon

Don't know how true this is, but came to think of this image: brainuniverse.jpg

Anyone else see a face a the top?

Yeah, nice try, photoshoppers! /s

Stunning photograph.

It looks like a giant.

That is quite the transformation!

I see the upper view every night when I walk my dog. It breaks my heart.

Earth is about the size of them storms

I'm a little freaked out at how perfectly hexagonal it is

Here is the YT, where you see little bit different angles https://www.youtube.com/shorts/rLS1MUamNG4

Any Questions?

Where is this? Edit: I did check out the original photographer. Amazing work: https://www.prasenjeetyadav.com/

Saw one a while ago. stunning. I wonder what people in 1300th thought is was?

I would like "You are here"-dot to if I would get lost here.

That's a still from a video. Check it out if you want: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Fmy71_3RSeQ

Looks more like a sitting hippo to me

Hurry! There's a quest waiting!

It looks like the entirety of Europe is tripping on Sicily

We'd better get back, 'cause it'll be dark soon, and they mostly come at night... mostly.

Barragem de Odeleite - Odeleite Dam, the river of the Blue Dragon Located in the municipality of Castro Marim in the Algarve, the Odeleite Dam was built on the River Odeleite, which rises in the uplands of the Serra do Caldeirão and flows into the Rio Guadiana. An aerial photograph showed that the reservoir is shaped like a blue dragon, a symbol of power, strength and good luck in Chinese culture, as well as being an emblem that was traditionally used by the emperors throughout history. This fact has attracted the attention of many visitors, who started to refer to it as the "River of the Blue Dragon". Source: https://www.visitportugal.com/en/content/barragem-de-odeleite

That's amazing.

Named after the Mexican hat.

That's my Martian doodle from when I was in daycare 48 yrs ago

David Attenborough: "It the background you can see the dustcloud from the great Sandworm, Shai-Hulud"

The moon is scared of the Aussie critters too

some men can't find Io... /S!

Stitch???

I wonder how large of an area this photo covers

O0o0oo I need a print of this...Starry Night has been a fave since childhood. ❤️

*giggles* "Focused On Uranus"

+ 66 years from moon landing will be 2035.

False colour of course. If it is a planet, then it can only be Mercury or Mars, because they are the only two that have lots of impact craters. If not a planet, then the only possibilities are the Moon, Ganymede, Callisto and Pluto. I'm going to guess Mercury.

Betelgeuse :D (red star on the upper left).

i'm in love