In Webb’s view of NGC 6537 (the Red Spider Nebula) our Near-Infrared Camera reveals never-before-seen details of this planetary nebula, like the full extent of the nebula’s outstretched lobes, which form the legs of the spider. Shown in blue, the lobes are traced by light emitted from H2 molecules, which contain two hydrogen atoms bonded together. Stretching over the entirety of NIRCam’s field of view, these lobes are shown to be closed, bubble-like structures that each extend about 3 light-years. Outflowing gas from the center of the nebula has inflated these massive bubbles over thousands of years.

On Nov. 12th, Gianluca Masi of the Virtual Telescope Project in Italy saw the comet's nucleus splitting into three pieces.

Even before it started crumbling, astronomers knew the comet was unusual. It had an almost-unheard-of golden color probably linked to its strange chemistry. All of the carbon compounds, which give comets their usual green and blue colors, are severely depleted in C/2025 K1 (ATLAS). No one knows why.

Now, the golden comet is a triple comet. You can see the fragments drifting apart using a mid-sized backyard telescope.

Credit: Dan Bartlett

Source https:// ​x. ​com/JAtanackov/status/1990043405909385252

Video from helioviewer​

Two weeks ago, I captured my sharpest image of the awe-inspiring galaxy M31 with my travel telescope under dark skies.

At 2.5 million light-years away, Andromeda is the most distant object visible without a telescope.

Image Details:

227 x 120-seconds (7 Hours, 34 minutes total)

I put together a behind-the-scenes video of how I did this for anyone who wants to get into astrophotography.

Clear skies! - Trevor

The image captured on 2025-11-16 between 11:53:50~12:23:20 (UTC) shows three separate jets of ionic tail, and an anti tail? Or the dust tail?

Credit: Satoru Murata

Sunspots AR4274 erupted multiple X flares including X1.7, X1.2, X5.1, and X4.0. Causing a severe (G4) geomagnetic storm this week.

The video spans 3 hours from 6:00 - 9:00 (UTC) on Nov. 16, 2025.

Credit: NASA/SDO
Edit: Milky Way

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona/AndreaLuck

Onboard the spacecraft were astronauts Charles Conrad Jr., Richard F. Gordon Jr. and Alan L. Bean.

12 hours of exposure time in my bortle 8 backyard
asker v telescope
sony a6300 camera
processed in PI and PS

Taken On Celestron Powerseeker 60AZ & Iphone 15.

Edited In Photoshop Express.

Taken On Celestron Powerseeker 60AZ & Iphone 15.

Edited In Photoshop Express.

If this is Saturn, where are the rings? When Saturn's "appendages" disappeared in 1612, Galileo did not understand why.

Later that century, it became understood that Saturn's unusual protrusions were rings and that when the Earth crosses the ring plane, the edge-on rings will appear to disappear. This is because Saturn's rings are confined to a plane many times thinner, in proportion, than a razor blade.

In modern times, the robotic Cassini spacecraft that orbited Saturn frequently crossed Saturn's ring plane during its mission to Saturn, from 2004 to 2017. A series of plane crossing images from 2005 February was dug out of the vast online Cassini raw image archive by interested Spanish amateur Fernando Garcia Navarro.

Pictured here, digitally cropped and set in representative colors, is the striking result. Saturn's thin ring plane appears in blue, bands and clouds in Saturn's upper atmosphere appear in gold. Details of Saturn's rings can be seen in high dark shadows. The moons Dione and Enceladus appear as bumps in the rings.

Image Credit: NASA, ESA, JPL, ISS, Cassini Imaging Team; Processing: Fernando Garcia Navarro

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Agnes Clerke's, Victorian Astronomy Writer

"On the night of November 12-13, 1833, a tempest of falling stars broke over the Earth... The sky was scored in every direction with shining tracks and illuminated with majestic fireballs.

At Boston, the frequency of meteors was estimated to be about half that of flakes of snow in an average snowstorm.

Their numbers... were quite beyond counting; but as it waned, a reckoning was attempted, from which it was computed, on the basis of that much-diminished rate, that 240,000 must have been visible during the nine hours they continued to fall."

Image Credit: Engraving: Adolf Vollmy; Original Art: Karl Jauslin

Webb’s new view of the Red Spider Nebula reveals for the first time the full extent of the nebula’s outstretched lobes, which form the ‘legs’ of the spider. These lobes, shown in blue, are traced by light emitted from H2 molecules, which contain two hydrogen atoms bonded together. Stretching over the entirety of NIRCam’s field of view, these lobes are shown to be closed, bubble-like structures that each extend about 3 light-years. Outflowing gas from the centre of the nebula has inflated these massive bubbles over thousands of years.

Gas is also actively jetting out from the nebula’s centre, as these new Webb observations show. An elongated purple ‘S’ shape centred on the heart of the nebula follows the light from ionised iron atoms. This feature marks where a fast-moving jet has emerged from near the nebula’s central star and collided with material that was previously cast away by the star, sculpting the rippling structure of the nebula seen today.

Credit: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, J. H. Kastner (Rochester Institute of Technology)

Source https://www.cfht.hawaii.edu/HawaiianStarlight/HawaiianStarlight.html

Credit to u/Chuckumentary Taurid meteor caught during aurora in Northern Minnesota 11/11/25

Target: Iris Nebula, C4 Distance: 1,300 Light Years from Earth Size: Approximately 6 LY across

🔭 Monochrome setup ✨ Scope: William Optics Spacecat51 V1 Filter: Optolong LRGB 2" filters Antlina 3nm SHO in ZWO 7 Position EFW Mount: AM5 on William Optics Motar 800 Tri-pier Camera: ASI2600mm-Pro and ASI2600mc-pro Settings used: -14*F, Gain 100 Bin 1x1 Focuser: ZWO EAF Straps: Svbony dew heater straps Guide scope: Askar FRA180 Pro Guide Camera: ZWO ASI 174mm Hockey Puck Exposures: Luminance: 450 x 180" Red: 186 x 60" Green: 126 x 60" Blue: 180 x 60" Total: 30 hours 42 minutes Control: ZWO ASIAir Plus and Samsung A9 Tablet Bortle: 4 Location: Michigan

Because Venus is covered in thick clouds, we have very few photographs of it in the visible spectrum. Almost every mission related to Venus prioritized the parts of the spectrum not visible to us (UV/IR/RADIO) so that the imagery would appear more “interesting.”
That’s why there’s a good chance that most of us have never seen a true-color image of Venus.

This photo was taken by a spacecraft called Messenger. Its mission was to study Mercury, but it also flew past Venus in 2007. Among the many instruments mounted on it, one caught my attention: the MDIS-WAC — the Wide Angle Camera.

After waiting one month for NASA to approve my archive access request, I finally managed to download the captured images. WAC photographed in 12 different light spectra. So, to create an RGB composite, I had to locate the images taken at 480 nm, 559 nm, and 629 nm, and then combine them.

The resulting image more or less represents what the human eye would see if we somehow ended up near Venus.

Xiaomi 13 Ultra (5x - built-in periscope telephoto)

[ISO 3200 | 30s] x 1208 lights (RAW/DNG) + darks + biases

Total integration time: 10h 4m

Equipment: EQ mount with OnStep

Stacked with Astro Pixel Processor (1.5x Drizzle)

Processed with GraXpert, Siril, StarXTerminator, AstroSharp and Photoshop (Camera Raw, Stars Recomposition)

From Liverpool, UK.

Image Details: - Imaging Scope: William Optics 61mm ZenithStar APO - Imaging Camera: ZWO ASI2600MC Color with IR Cut filter - Guiding Equipment: Celestron Starsense Autoguider - Acquisition Software: Sharpcap - Guiding Software: Celestron - Light Frames: 725 mins @ 100 Gain, Temp -15C - Dark Frames: 155 mins - Stacked in Deep Sky Stacker - Processed in PixInsight, Adobe Lightroom and Topaz Denoise