Using the Easter break to indulge in a guilty pleasure: catching up on “Jet lag: the game” during my spring cleaning.

It’s very comforting to see my nerdy YouTube hero from when I was a baby scientist, Tom Scott, masking up in public transport even though, according to him, he only had very mild symptoms when he caught COVID

#JetLagTheGame #MaskUp #CovidIsAirborne
#Nebula #NebulaTV #SchengenShowdown #SilentSunday

APOD from 2025-04-20

The Orion #Nebula in Visible and #Infrared

The Orion Nebula, visible to the naked eye, is a vibrant mix of young stars, hot gas, and dust. This image combines visible and infrared light from Spitzer #Telescope, revealing shock waves and the Trapezium's bright stars. Spanning 40 light-years, it's 1500 light-years away in our #Galaxy's spiral arm.

HD image at https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap250420.html#space #astronomy

The #OrionNebula in #Visible and #Infrared
#Astronomy #Picture of the Day

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap250420.html

APOD from 2012-04-16

The Eagle #Nebula from Kitt Peak

The Eagle Nebula (M16) is a window into a star-forming region within a larger dust shell, 6,500 light-years away. Pillars and globules of dust house ongoing star formation, while young stars sculpt the nebula's landscape. This image from Kitt Peak shows M16 in three emitted colors.

HD image at https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap120416.html

APOD from 2023-06-19

The Busy Center of the Lagoon #Nebula

The Lagoon Nebula's heart showcases star birth, with two funnel clouds shaped by stellar winds and a bright star, Herschel 36. Dust walls obscure other stars. Temperature contrasts from these stars create shearing winds, possibly forming the funnels. This 15-light-year-wide Hubble image reveals M8, 5000 light-years away in Sagittarius.

HD image at https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap230619.html

https://www.europesays.com/uk/24938/ Incredible Photo of a Dying Star Shows How Far Telescopes Have Come #Astronomy #jameswebbspacetelescope #jwst #Nasa #nebula #Science #Space #Star #UK #UnitedKingdom #webb #wise

APOD from 2025-04-16

Halo of the Cat's Eye

The Cat's Eye #Nebula (NGC 6543) features a mysterious halo spanning over three light-years. Its origins are unclear, but it represents an advanced stage in the evolution of Sun-like stars. The nebula's outer halo is estimated to be 50,000 to 90,000 years old.

HD image at https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap250416.html#space #astronomy

APOD from 2021-05-18

Jets from the Necklace #Nebula

The Necklace Nebula, a planetary nebula with bright gas knots resembling diamonds, is formed by two closely orbiting stars. Captured by Hubble, it's 5,000 years old and spans 5 light-years in Sagitta. The red jets' formation is still researched.

HD image at https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap210518.html

APOD from 2025-04-15

Planetary #Nebula NGC 1514 from #Webb

When a star like the Sun dies, it forms a white dwarf and expels its outer layers as a planetary nebula. NGC 1514's chaotic bubbles in visible light form an hourglass shape in #infrared from JWST, hinting at a cylindrical structure seen diagonally with a binary system at its core.

HD image at https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap250415.html#space #astronomy #telescope #universe

Planetary Nebula NGC 1514 from Webb
* Image Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, M. E. Ressler (JPL) et al.; Processing: Judy Schmidt
https://science.nasa.gov/people-of-nasa/meet-a-citizen-scientist-judy-schmidt/
https://science.jpl.nasa.gov/people/ressler/
https://science.jpl.nasa.gov/
https://www.asc-csa.gc.ca/eng/
https://www.esa.int/
https://www.nasa.gov/

Explanation:
What happens when a star runs out of nuclear fuel? For stars like our Sun, the center condenses into a white dwarf while the outer atmosphere is expelled into space to appear as a planetary nebula. The expelled outer atmosphere of planetary nebula NGC 1514 appears to be a jumble of bubbles -- when seen in visible light. But the view from the James Webb Space Telescope in infrared, as featured here, confirms a different story: in this light the nebula shows a distinct hourglass shape, which is interpreted as a cylinder seen along a diagonal. If you look closely at the center of the nebula, you can also see a bright central star that is part of a binary system. More observations might better reveal how this nebula is evolving and how the central stars are working together to produce the interesting cylinder and bubbles observed.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NGC_1514
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planetary_nebula
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap190929.html
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2010AJ....140.1882R/abstract

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap211226.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_fusion
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap000910.html
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap970219.html
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2016ApJ...829...73M/abstract
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https://www.geogebra.org/m/sdFGxeYM

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A Giant Star’s Spectacular Dying Breaths Caught on Camera https://petapixel.com/2025/04/11/a-giant-stars-spectacular-dying-breaths-caught-on-camera/ #hubblespacetelescope #astronomy #science #hubble #nebula #Space #space #News #NASA #star

APOD from 2020-06-01

The Lively Center of the Lagoon #Nebula

The Lagoon Nebula's heart is a star-forming spectacle with two funnel clouds shaped by stellar winds and bright star Herschel 36. Hubble captured this 15-light-year-wide view in two colors, revealing the nebula's complex dynamics and hidden stars. M8 lies 5000 light-years away in Sagittarius.

HD image at https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap200601.html

They actually made it to #Oslo in the latest season of #JetLag Available to stream on both #Nebula and #YouTube.

Our community member pebblegarden created a mod with some spectacular new skyboxes ranging from Milkyway variations to nebulae.

https://wiki.pioneerspacesim.net/wiki/Mods#List_of_known_Mods

APOD from 2021-08-17

M57: The Ring #Nebula from #Hubble

The Ring Nebula's 3-D structure, revealed by Hubble, is a dense ring within a football-shaped gas cloud. Viewed from Earth, we see the ring face-on. This planetary nebula's glow comes from its central dying star's expelled layers, ionized by UV light. It spans one light-year and lies 2,500 light-years away.

HD image at https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap210817.html

APOD from 2023-07-26

IC 4628: The Prawn #Nebula

IC 4628, or the Prawn Nebula, glows red in Scorpius, 6,000 light-years away. Spanning 250 light-years, it's illuminated by young stars' UV light. This image was captured from Chile in April.

HD image at https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap230726.html

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The Eta Carinae Nebula.

This was taken with the new DwarfLab Dwarf3 smartscope, one of which I recently acquired. I brought it to Australia with me on a current trip, and shot this Nebula from Bortle 6 skies, using the built-in Duo Band filter..This is 30x15 second frames, stacked and denoised within the Dwarf app. Mild saturation increase in Lightroom.