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I do not and will not be use Twitter again. I can be found at the pinned tweet in my profile. Over and out.
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exquisite new #jwst data unveiling the physics of star formation and dust✨ brilliant, kind collaborators incl @PHANGSteam @karinsandstrom @InappTom✨ and ton of our JWST papers starting to drop this Monday on arXiv. so much to be #grateful for this Thanksgiving 🙏
Judy Schmidt@SpaceGeck25 Nov 2022
Happy Friday, everyone. Here's a new view from JWST's MIRI of spiral galaxy NGC 1566. The colors in this image come from the emission of dust. Hardly any stars are visible. The reddish areas correspond with star formation, though. Data via Proposal GO 2107 / @janiceleeastro
A spiral galaxy with two arms. Pinkish areas dot the brightest points along the arms, while brownish and blueish hues dominate the spaces in between. A complicated web of dust forms the arms with many tendrils also connecting them in the dimmer areas. Pin pricks of light from background galaxies and very few stars are scattered about the image.

ALT A spiral galaxy with two arms. Pinkish areas dot the brightest points along the arms, while brownish and blueish hues dominate the spaces in between. A complicated web of dust forms the arms with many tendrils also connecting them in the dimmer areas. Pin pricks of light from background galaxies and very few stars are scattered about the image.

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Happy Friday, everyone. Here's a new view from JWST's MIRI of spiral galaxy NGC 1566. The colors in this image come from the emission of dust. Hardly any stars are visible. The reddish areas correspond with star formation, though. Data via Proposal GO 2107 / @janiceleeastro
A spiral galaxy with two arms. Pinkish areas dot the brightest points along the arms, while brownish and blueish hues dominate the spaces in between. A complicated web of dust forms the arms with many tendrils also connecting them in the dimmer areas. Pin pricks of light from background galaxies and very few stars are scattered about the image.

ALT A spiral galaxy with two arms. Pinkish areas dot the brightest points along the arms, while brownish and blueish hues dominate the spaces in between. A complicated web of dust forms the arms with many tendrils also connecting them in the dimmer areas. Pin pricks of light from background galaxies and very few stars are scattered about the image.

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#Hubble observation of #Jupiter's UV #aurora, 2022-05-21 15:27:39 (16675; PI @jonny_nichols). planetarylightshow.com/jupit…
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#Hubble observation of #Jupiter's UV #aurora, 2022-05-21 (16675; PI @jonny_nichols). planetarylightshow.com/jupit…
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Had to do my own view of the protostar in LDN 1527. I love these nebulas. flic.kr/p/2o1cFqj These data are via the Director's Discretionary budget from Proposal 2739.
Cones of light at the top and bottom contrast against cones of shadow to the left and right. The brightest part near the center is crossed by a dark line. The image is redder at the top where the dust is thicker, and bluer at the bottom where there is less dust. Various galaxies and foreground stars are visible throughout the image, but less so on the left upper and central side where the dust obscures them. Intricate textures from dust shaped by outflows from the star are visible throughout the light cones.

ALT Cones of light at the top and bottom contrast against cones of shadow to the left and right. The brightest part near the center is crossed by a dark line. The image is redder at the top where the dust is thicker, and bluer at the bottom where there is less dust. Various galaxies and foreground stars are visible throughout the image, but less so on the left upper and central side where the dust obscures them. Intricate textures from dust shaped by outflows from the star are visible throughout the light cones.

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Cleaned up a lot of the banding issues, thanks to @gmic_eu with h/t to @stim3on
Cones of light at the top and bottom contrast against cones of shadow to the left and right. The brightest part near the center is crossed by a dark line. The image is redder at the top where the dust is thicker, and bluer at the bottom where there is less dust. Various galaxies and foreground stars are visible throughout the image, but less so on the left upper and central side where the dust obscures them. Intricate textures from dust shaped by outflows from the star are visible throughout the light cones. Now there's also less horizontal banding!

ALT Cones of light at the top and bottom contrast against cones of shadow to the left and right. The brightest part near the center is crossed by a dark line. The image is redder at the top where the dust is thicker, and bluer at the bottom where there is less dust. Various galaxies and foreground stars are visible throughout the image, but less so on the left upper and central side where the dust obscures them. Intricate textures from dust shaped by outflows from the star are visible throughout the light cones. Now there's also less horizontal banding!

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Like Saturn? Like spectroscopy in the form of data cubes? Then you'll like these shiny, new views from JWST. There's some rings, and what looks like one of the poles to me, among other things. GTO 1274 / Leigh Fletcher
A low resolution view of Saturn's rings. Individual pixels are clearly visible.

ALT A low resolution view of Saturn's rings. Individual pixels are clearly visible.

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Now, if you wanted a pretty Saturn photo, I guess we'll just have to wait for that.
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pretty sure translation got removed with the micro services purge. all of my mentions are in french right now. when i view them i see the spot where the “translate” text pops up expand, but the text is gone. so stupid.
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ugh, so it shows up on desktop, but not the app, or something. anyway I'm so glad I was able to translate "JW needs to get off the drugs"
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Apropos of nothing, I processed an HST/NICMOS view of Titan from 1997-11-18. Data from Proposal 7180 / Bradford Smith
A low resolution view of Saturn's moon, Titan. Dark features stretch across the equator. The moon is more brightly illuminated at its southern pole.

ALT A low resolution view of Saturn's moon, Titan. Dark features stretch across the equator. The moon is more brightly illuminated at its southern pole.

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Possibly the only free, color view of the moon available from this dataset. I find this a little odd because even though it's an aesthetically difficult image, it's also pretty great by 1997 standards.
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sometimes things need to get shaken up, but right now it's shaking so hard the soil is liquefying and I'm not sure what's going to be left
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hoping I said Wolf-Rayet correctly today
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Replying to @SpaceGeck @yuvharpaz @christianready @markmccaughrean @LaunchPadAstro
From there on, bigger stars can be given special treatment for that dark outline they'll leave behind. Medium and smaller stars can use a little blur or even nothing if you prefer.
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cc @thecolomb7710
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A very early and preliminary version of Europa image PJ45_1 obtained by @NASAJuno earlier today (Sept 29, 2022). This shouldn't be very far from Europa's true color; I expect to improve the color later with more careful processing though. North is up.
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so cute!
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I've been slowly working on some of these Orion filters. Haven't had a lot of time recently, but here is an unfinished JWST composite aligned over an older HST composite I made a while back.
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Blink animation.
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