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Saying goodbye to comet A6 Lemmon. It's getting very low, and clouds are increasing in southern New Mexico.

It was a remarkable run of many clear nights.

This is a single exposure on a fixed tripod.

There's a blurred silhouette of a power line, and satellite trails in this image. They belong in the frame because this is the world we have created. It's getting increasingly difficult to escape to pristine nature.

Perhaps the phrase 'pristine nature' is now an oxymoron?

When is the first No Kings General Strike?

We all need to help with community building and boosting civic engagement. These activities have atrophied for decades, and it shows.

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The comet is sporting a whitish dust tail in this evening twilight image. The blue ion tail does not show because this is a single, short exposure and the lingering blue of twilight overwhelms the ion tail. The brightest star near the comet is η Ophiuchi, also known as Sabik. A few cirrus clouds are in the starry twilight sky, but they don't mask the comet or its tail.
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For the first time ever, astronomers have unveiled the shape of a star’s explosion at its earliest stage.

The feat was achieved by ESO's Very Large Telescope just a day after the detection of this supernova, as the blast was breaking through the star’s surface.

This brief initial phase wouldn’t have been observable a day later. This will help shed light on how massive stars go supernova.

eso.org/public/news/eso2520/

Illustration: ESO/L. Calçada

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A digital illustration of a star going supernova, surrounded by a gaseous disc in orange and red tones. The star is seen exploding in an olive shape, directed above and below the star.

Unique shape of star’s explosion revealed just a day after detection

Swift observations with the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT) have revealed the explosive death of a star just as the blast was breaking through the star’s surface.
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Another perspective on our pale blue dot -- this time from the #ISS

📷 :images.nasa.gov/details/iss073…

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A view from the International Space Station showing part of its structure and robotic arm silhouetted against Earth at night. The planet’s surface glows with lightning flashes and illuminated cities beneath a faint green atmospheric layer along the horizon.

NASA Image and Video Library

NASA Image and Video Library, serving up consolidated imagery and videos in one searchable location. Users can download content in multiple sizes and resolutions and see the metadata associated with images, including EXIF/camera data on many images.
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I find this remarkable:

The Dresden Codex, one of the few surviving Mayan manuscripts, contains tables that give highly accurate timings of solar eclipses over more than 700 years, from 350 CE to the 12 century.

science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv… #history #science #astronomy

Sheets of the Dresden Codex depicting eclipses, multiplication tables, and the flood.
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A dance of two pairs!

While the two Magellanic Clouds shine upon the Atacama Desert in #Chile, two Auxiliary Telescopes of ESO’s Very Large Telescope Interferometer point up to the sky.

Just like our cosmic neighbours move around the Milky Way, the Auxiliary Telescopes can be moved along rails and arranged in different configurations when observing the sky.

Read more: eso.org/public/images/potw2545…

📷 J. Looten/ESO

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Two of ESO’s small Auxiliary Telescopes, accompanied by the Magellanic Clouds up in the night sky. The ATs are small white domes, their tops open revealing telescopes pointing at the sky. The Magellanic Clouds are look like bright, blueish clouds with stars within them. A human silhouette is visible on the right side of the picture.

A dance of two pairs

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This is four hours of the big, beautiful galaxy M33 in Triangulum. Eight-ten would be better. I might be able to get another four or five tonight, but I'm not sure what the weather will do. After tonight, I'm very sure--clouds and rain. #Science #astronomy
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Comet C/2025 A6 Lemmon is a bright, long-period comet discovered on January 3, 2025, that reached its perihelion on November 8, 2025.

▼ Baader Apo 95 CaF₂ | Canon EOS R(a) ’25
© Thomas Hanrath ’25 · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

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C/2025 A6

C/2025 A6 (LEMMON)

Comet C/2025 A6 Lemmon is a bright, long-period comet discovered on January 3, 2025, that will reach its closest point to the Sun (perihelion) on November 8, 2025, making it a promising and accessible target for astrophotographers due to its potentia…
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