Melina Thévenot🏳️‍⚧️

A bird with black feathers, an orange beak and orange around the eyes.

Turdus merula (common blackbird)
#bird 🪶

A gray-brown bird with a prominent orange spot on the front covering face and breast. It is singing. Branches are in between the bird and the observer.

Erithacus rubecula (European robin)
#bird 🐤

A colorful nebula with clouds of gas in shades of orange, yellow, and blue, dotted with bright stars against the dark background of space

Meet the Medusa Nebula!

As the star at its heart reached the end of its life, it shed its outer layers into space, forming this colourful cloud. The image foreshadows the final fate of the Sun, which will also become an object of this kind.

https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1520/

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📷 ESO

pixel art of a male Townsend's warbler perched on a small branch and looking up, its legs and feet partially obscured by two oak leaves protruding forward and to the right. The warbler has bright yellow colorings on its face and breast with a black eye-ear patch and smaller yellow band just beneath the eye within that patch, and stripes of black and gray following just underneath the wing, giving way to white, gray and brown colors below. The wing feathers are dark with light edges and two wing bars. A subtle beam of light crosses behind the bird from the upper right to the lower left, against a light reddish-tan background

Bird for my father.

Some stars and some background clouds.

Another random field in NGC 1977 with #JWST MIRI (F560W, F770W, F1000W)
www.stsci.edu/jwst-program...

ESO 350-38 Found a kind of heart shaped galaxy interaction. It's a bit small on the detector, but there is a lot of star formation going on. If we could see it in more detail there would be a lot of puffy, glowi...

ESO 350-38 is a nearby galaxy that emits Lyman continuum photons.

JWST image was only very limited data, no i2d files.

There is an image in optical light using Hubble, processed by @geckzilla.bsky.social.

www.flickr.com/photos/geckz...

Two images of the same galaxy. The galaxy looks quite blue in both images.

ESO 350-38 (in wikipedia under Haro 11) with #Hubble ACS (ultraviolet, left) and #JWST MIRI (mid-infrared, right)

Filters HST: F125LP, F150LP
Filters JWST: F770W, F1130W
program HST: archive.stsci.edu/proposal_sea...
program JWST: www.stsci.edu/jwst-program...

TWO preprints on Epsilon Indi A b on today's arXiv whaattt??? Awesome!

A group of about twenty purple and wavy tentacle-like fingers rise from orange fir needles covering the ground. This fungi is named purple spindles for good reason. This group of spindles stands about eight inches tall at its highest.

This weird fungus is Alloclavaria purpurea, better known as purple spindles. They're so tentacley!

📷 Canon R5
Canon RF 100mm f/2.8L IS USM
M, f/8, 1/4, ISO 400
Stack of 5 images
11/9/24
Northern Oregon Coast

#mushroom #fungifriends #mushrooms

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A spiral galaxy with the Hubble image showing individual stellar and dark dust clouds. A bright nucleus in the middle.

The spiral #galaxy Messier 88 (NGC 4501) with #Hubble
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Blue galaxy with two spiral arms. Very thin and likely in the process of merging.

2MFGC 6625 (JWST target name J0823+2806-B) with #JWST MIRI (F770W, F1130W, F1800W)
program: www.stsci.edu/jwst-program...

New Evidence Points to Venusian Lava Tubes, and They’re Really Big - Eos Researchers bring new life to 30-year-old Magellan data to unearth the first direct evidence of the long-hypothesized structures.

“Look, this is what we found,” said one of the researchers. “It’s gigantic.”

A map showing the individual reports spanning from France to Germany. Left side has some text with information.

2340 reports of the fireball with 15 videos and 102 photos:
akm.imo.net/members/imo_...

Meteorite over Germany with fragments damaging a roof in Koblenz. 🔭

A butterfly with red-orange wings with black and white spots. The body is black.

Aglais urticae (Small tortoiseshell)
Second time I have seen one. Today I got to see many of them.
#butterfly 🦋

A bird with gray-blue wings with a white stripe, a yellow body and a black head with a large white spot.

Parus major (Great tit)
#bird 🐤

White flowers growing on branches. This was a large tree in full bloom.

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James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) reveals Herbig-Haro 49/50—a dramatic protostellar jet from a forming star, with intricate gas and dust structures in near- and mid-infrared light. A chance alignment with a distant spiral galaxy adds a stunning cosmic backdrop. The color palette highlights different wavelengths of light, from near-infrared (NIRCam) to mid-infrared (MIRI). Credit: NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI/Jackie Branc, Program 6558, PI: Macarena Garcia Marin. NIRCam: F144W,F335M,F200W,F115W,F444W-F470N MIRI: F770W

1/2🧵6558 | Herbig-Haro 49/50 Jet Center #JWST
Multi-band imaging of protostellar jet

⛏️ Digging in the archives

2024-08-06

PI: Macarena Garcia Marin

NIRCam: F144W,F335M,F200W,F115W,F444W-F470N
MIRI: F770W

Credit: NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI/Jackie Branc

#protostellar #protostellarjet #Herbig-Haro49/50

Comet with a spiraling tail.

Same comet in orange.

Comet 63P/Wild with #JWST NIRCam (left F430M, right F356W+F430M).

It was discovered in 1960 by Paul Wild and is a periodic comet.

left image: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:63...

#comet #astronomy ☄️

Comet 63P/Wild. Very noisy image. I will post a cleaner image on my account.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/63P/Wild

A bird with blue wings, yellow body and white head with black stripe going over the eyes.

The same bird looking for food in the tree.

The same tree looking at me from above. "Why are you looking at me?"

Cyanistes caeruleus (Eurasian blue tit)
#bird 🐤

A butterfly with orange-red wings with black dots. Body is brown with two long antennae.

New #butterfly 🦋 added to my observations.

Polygonia c-album (or the comma)

JWST already did take an image of SN 1604, but the images will only be released to the public in August/September this year.

Yellow and violet clouds with fine structures. Faint red clouds without fine structures surround these clouds.

Part of the #supernova remnant SN 1604. The supernova was also known as Kepler's Star.

It was produced by a white dwarf exploding in a type Ia supernova.

#Hubble observation from 2003
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pa...

ALMA Detects Extremely Abundant Alcohol in Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS - National Radio Astronomy Observatory The latest news from the NSF's National Radio Astronomy Observatory.

ALMA Detects Extremely Abundant Alcohol in Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS

New research reveals that 3I/ATLAS is packed with an unusually large amount of the organic molecule methanol – more than almost all known comets in our own solar system.

#Astronomy #RadioAstronomy #3iatlas #ALMA

today i drew
#pixelart

Thank you for the updates. 👍

Now that the news are out...

Rivkin's Feb 2026 JWST observations of asteroid 2024 YR4 shows that it'll pass 21,938 ±2,320 km from the Moon (according to JPL SBDB), while Deen's precoveries from 2016 found that YR4 will pass of 22,001 ±49 km from the Moon.

Both independent results are spot on! 🔭☄️

There is also a Hubble F606W image from program 13327.
I tried to combine them, but I had to use the Hubble image as green.

NIRCam F070W (blue), ACS F606W (green), NIRCam F444W (red)
archive.stsci.edu/proposal_sea...

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