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Enjoy this cosmic gem: the Lion's Nebula.

Published a year ago by Imran Badr & @NASA 👏

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#APOD #Astronomy

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Space fashion tip: always accessorize your galaxy with a sheer dust veil. 💫 Here’s NGC 7497 playing peekaboo behind MBM 54; a cosmic scarf only 1,000 lightyears away, while the galaxy itself is strutting from 60 million lightyears out. #SpaceCatwalk #DustyAndDramatic

Image Credit & Copyright: Robert Eder

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That little yellow dot? Just a baby planet caught red handed carving out its own orbit. 🪐✨ Basically the universe’s version of a toddler drawing circles on the wall with cosmic crayons. #ExoplanetArt #SpaceParenting

Image Credit: ESO, VLT, SPHERE;
Processing & Copyright: ESO, Richelle van Capelleveen (Leiden Obs.) et al.;
Text: Ogetay Kayali (MTU)

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When meteors photobomb your Milky Way glam shot over Durdle Door 🌌✨ Straight lines IRL, curvy vibes on camera. Perseus is basically running the whole show. #Perseids #SpaceFashion

Image Credit & Copyright: Josh Dury

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Behold NGC 1309: a galaxy 100 million light-years away that’s basically the cosmic version of a flawless Instagram influencer. ✨ With its elegant spiral arms of young blue stars wrapped around an older golden core, it’s not just showing off... It’s also helping astronomers measure the universe’s expansion with supernovas and Cepheid stars.

Who knew beauty and brains could exist on a galactic scale? 🌌 #SpaceFlex

Image Credit: NASA, ESA, Hubble; Processing: L. Galbany, S. Jha, K. Noll, A. Riess

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When Venus, Jupiter, and the Perseids crash the same party… and the Moon shows up as the uninvited spotlight. 🌟💫🌕 #SpaceCelebs #PerseidParty

Image Credit & Copyright: Jeff Dai (TWAN)

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M13: Basically the universe’s biggest glitter bomb, 25,000 light-years away. Warning: may cause extreme star envy. ✨💫 #SpaceBling #HerculesCluster

Image Credit & Copyright: R. Jay Gabany

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Orion's got bling. Four dazzling stars in the Trapezium light up the whole nebula… and there might be a secret black hole crashing the party. 🌌✨ #SpaceDrama #OrionNebula

Image Credit: Data: Hubble Legacy Archive, Processing: Robert Gendler

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When the sky throws a glitter party and Perseus is the VIP guest list. 🌌✨
#Perseids #MeteorShower #SpaceParty

Image Credit & Copyright: Marcin Rosadziński

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When galaxies collide and leave a cosmic question mark in the sky… the universe is basically asking, ‘WTF just happened?’ 🤔✨
#Arp194 #SpaceDrama

Arp 194: Merging Galaxy Group
Image Credit: NASA, ESA, Hubble; Processing & License: Judy Schmidt

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��️ Saturn’s rings just went slim mode.
🌑 That dot? Titan throwing shade... literally.
📸 Catch these moonshadow transits every 16 days till January 2026.
#Saturn #Titan #SpaceDrama #Astronomy

Image Credit & Copyright: Volodymyr Andrienko

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When a cat kneads your lap, it's cute.
When a cat kneads the cosmos… you get this. 🐾✨
Meet the Cat’s Paw Nebula, cosmic chaos, star factory, and interstellar mischief-maker.
#JWST #SpacePawfect

Image Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI

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When you’re just trying to vibe in orbit but photobomb Saturn’s big moment.
🎥📸
ISS: “Sup.”

#SpacePhotobomb #SaturnAndChill #TimingIsEverythingAsk

Image Credit & Copyright: A.J. Smadi

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Mars: where even the cliffs have commitment issues. 😆
Hebes Chasma just dropped a mesa like it’s hot… and scientists still don’t know where it all went.
#MartianMysteries #OopsAllCollapse #SpaceGeologyAsk

Image Credit & License: ESA/DLR/FU Berlin (G. Neukum)

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3/3 But here’s the kicker…
This bizarre loop-de-loop galaxy isn’t falling apart.
It’s been rocking this chaos with stability vibe for millions of years.
Proof that weird works. 💫
#NGC2685 #PolarRingGalaxy #GalacticGlowUp #SpaceOddity

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1/3 From the @nasa archive 📡

Some galaxies spiral.
Some galaxies swirl.
NGC 2685 said: why not both... but sideways?
Behold the Helix Galaxy, rocking a look NASA calls “perpendicular rings.”
Yes, it’s basically the galaxy version of a hat on sideways. 🧢✨

Image Credit & Copyright: Stefan Thrun

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2/3 How does this even happen?
Galactic scientists:
“Uh… it probably ate another galaxy and wore its leftovers like a cosmic fashion statement.”
💅 Space couture.

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When the sky flexes its edge-of-space ice cloud drip 💅
Noctilucent clouds: because even the mesosphere has a summer glow-up.
#NoctilucentClouds #SkyOnFleek #VallentunaVibes

Image Credit & Copyright: P-M Hedén (Clear Skies, TWAN)

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Space just served up a cosmic cod. 🐟✨
Behold: the Rotten Fish Nebula... smells like star formation and drama.
#LDN1251 #GalacticGourmet #NebulaSnack

Image Credit & Copyright: Cristiano Gualco

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When you can't decide between pink, blue, or black... so you wear all three.
The Trifid Nebula serving galactic nebulae realness 💅✨
#SpaceFashion #M20 #NebulaGlowUp

Image Credit & Copyright: Alessandro Cipolat Bares