Laura

kiss me before u go

[Nature's Beauty @Nature_Beauty11]

Sky without light pollution

[mun @munownspace]

Are you shining just for me?

[Astropics @astro4pics]

Fun fact that most people don't know: the Moon has a tail, like a comet. Sodium atoms escape from its surface and are repelled by sunlight. Sodium atoms escape from its surface and are repelled by sunlight. They form a tenuous trail several hundred thousand kilometers long, moving away from the sun. It cannot be seen with the naked eye. It was first detected in the 1990s. So the Moon isn't just a dead rock. It is slowly releasing matter into space.

(Photo taken by me)

[Black Hole @konstructivizm]

A star died tens of millions of years ago. We just saw it.

About 45 million years ago, in the spiral galaxy NGC 7331, a white dwarf reached its breaking point. It had been stealing gas from a companion star until it hit a critical mass — and then it detonated as a Type Ia supernova, a thermonuclear blast that unbinds the dead star itself.

That flash has only now arrived. The light reached Earth on 1 September 2026 and was caught as SN 2026aaiv.

The delay is the distance talking: NGC 7331 lies tens of millions of light-years away in Pegasus, so the explosion is ancient history there and breaking news here. What we are seeing is not a living star tearing itself apart, but the leftover core of one — a white dwarf that grew too heavy, ignited, and vanished in a single, clean nuclear fire.

[The Astronomy Guy @astrooalert]

Orion, Sirius, Mars, and the Pleiades over West Oahu, Hawaii.

[🫧 @lunecrumbss]

the night sky 🌌

[Space 8K @uhd2020]

Aurora from Kiruna, Sweden 🥹

[هديل الشليغم @HadeelInSpace]

كوكب زحل 🪐

[هديل الشليغم @HadeelInSpace]

القمر فجراً 💙✨

[Black Hole @konstructivizm]

Uranus is not just a planet. It is a cosmic rebel that decided to live by its own rules.

Its axis of rotation is tilted almost 98° — it literally rolls along its orbit on its side. Because of this, the poles take turns sinking into pitch-black darkness or bathing in endless sunlight for 42 years straight. Not a season. Not a winter. An entire lifetime spent in one polar day or one polar night.

This icy giant of hydrogen, helium, and methane holds the absolute cold record in the Solar System: temperatures in its atmosphere can drop to −224 °C. Colder than Neptune. Colder than it should be by every calculation. Why? Uranus stays silent. And we still don’t know what hides beneath its pale-blue mask.

[Mohamed Shaaban 👨🏻‍💻 @tcpshaaban]

الليل وسماه ونجومه وقمره…حرفياً 😄

[Paola 🦋 @Paolastrev]

Observar la luna y las estrellas en silencio es mi tipo de terapia.

[sage @sage_astr]

under the stars, my favorite place to be

[The Astronomy Guy @astrooalert]

The Milky Way galaxy hugging the shoreline of Lake Huron.

Credit: Scott Rock Photography

[Space 8K @uhd2020]

Too many stars

[Astrocoria @Astrocoria]

Venus 50%

[Night Sky Now @NightSkyNow]

This is what the night sky looks like without light pollution