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Jasmine 🌌🔭@astrojaz· 23d

the vintage nasa era

An astronaut wearing a white Apollo-era spacesuit floats outside a spacecraft during a spacewalk. Curved white handrails frame the image while the astronaut reaches forward with one gloved hand. The reflective gold visor mirrors Earth, with sunlight creating a bright starburst on the helmet. The background is the blackness of space, and part of an American flag appears blurred in the lower left foreground.

View from inside an Apollo spacecraft looking out a square window at Earth. The blue curve of the planet stretches across the lower edge of the window while countless small stars dot the dark sky beyond. The spacecraft interior, including control levers and window frame hardware, surrounds the scene in soft light.

Photograph taken from lunar orbit showing the Moon’s gray, heavily cratered surface filling the lower half of the frame. Above the lunar horizon, Earth appears partially illuminated as it rises against the deep blackness of space. The image is framed by the edges of the spacecraft window, emphasizing the view from inside the command module.

The Apollo Command and Service Module floats alone in the darkness of space, photographed from another spacecraft through a window. The silver spacecraft is illuminated by sunlight, revealing its conical command module and cylindrical service module, while the surrounding space remains completely black. The interior edges of the window create a natural frame around the spacecraft.

Jasmine 🌌🔭@astrojaz· 24d

this is such a cool and trippy composite image of multiple pictures of crescent mars taken by psyche during its flyby

A composite image of a series of images of the crescent Mars against the darkness of space. The crescents are nested within each other, showing the planet growing larger in the view over time. In the largest, closest views, clouds can be seen above the planet's surface.

Jasmine 🌌🔭@astrojaz· 25d

double crater on mars that looks like a butt

If a meteorite breaks in two shortly before hitting the ground, the typical bowl shape of a single impact crater becomes doubled. The two circular blast regions intersect, creating a straight wall separating the two craters. At the same time, "wings" of ejected debris shoot out to the side. The image covers an area 13 kilometers (8 miles) wide.

Jasmine 🌌🔭@astrojaz· 26d

just realized that one day hubble’s gonna be powered off and decommissioned someday and we won’t get anymore beautiful images 😭

The body of the Hubble Space Telescope is seen on the right side of the image, with a solar array on its left. The observatory is imaged with Earth below it.

Three massive pillars of gas and dust extend upward through the image, in descending order of height from left to right. They are mostly opaque and dark brown, against a background of blue, green, and gold dust and gas. A few scattered pinkish stars are visible throughout.

Jasmine 🌌🔭@astrojaz· 26d

this picture is INSANE. it was taken from the apollo 13 lunar module, and you can see the damaged service module in the background after it was jettisoned following the explosion of an oxygen tank!!

This view of the severely damaged Apollo 13 service module was photographed from the lunar module after it was jettisoned. The command module, still docked with the Lunar Module, is in the foreground. An entire panel on the service module was blown away by the apparent explosion of oxygen tank number two located in Sector 4.

Jasmine 🌌🔭@astrojaz· 27d

he asked for some space so i sent him this

Blue and orange stars glitter across the image, interwoven with dark clouds of brown dust and bright, glowing regions of blue.

A dense field of tiny, closely packed points of light fills the image. Most of the background is bright yellow and gold. A broad, irregular dark band runs diagonally across the centre, forming connected black and dark-brown patches. Brighter clusters of pale yellow and white points appear above and below this dark band, with a few slightly bluish points scattered throughout.

$FS Tau, a star-forming nebula. Clouds of transparent blue and purple gas and dust stretch from the center to the right. Several yellow and white protostars, some showing Webb’s eight-pronged diffraction pattern, are dispersed throughout the clouds. Orange wisps and filaments of gas extend from one of the protostars at the center toward the top left and bottom right corners. There are numerous, distant yellow and white galaxies strewn about the black background of space.$

A galaxy fills most of the image, with its bright center at the lower left. Glowing pink regions of starbirth appear throughout, along with dark lanes of brown dust. In the top right corner, a bright white point of light is a supernova.

Jasmine 🌌🔭@astrojaz· 28d

not enough people talk about how lucky we are to be alive to witness a sunset on ANOTHER PLANET

A blue Martian sunset with mountains in the distance and foreground.

Jasmine 🌌🔭@astrojaz· Jul 12

4 years ago today, the james webb space telescope released its first images 🌌

$The image is divided horizontally by an undulating line between a cloudscape forming a nebula along the bottom portion and a comparatively clear upper portion. Speckled across both portions is a starfield, showing innumerable stars of many sizes. The smallest of these are small, distant, and faint points of light. The largest of these appear larger, closer, brighter, and more fully resolved with 8-point diffraction spikes. The upper portion of the image is blueish, and has wispy translucent cloud-like streaks rising from the nebula below. The orangish cloudy formation in the bottom half varies in density and ranges from translucent to opaque. The stars vary in color, the majority of which, have a blue or orange hue. The cloud-like structure of the nebula contains ridges, peaks, and valleys – an appearance very similar to a mountain range. Three long diffraction spikes from the top right edge of the image suggest the presence of a large star just out of view.$

$The background of space is black. Thousands of galaxies appear all across the view. Their shapes and colors vary. Some are various shades of orange, others are white. Most stars appear blue, and are sometimes as large as more distant galaxies that appear next to them. A very bright star is just above and left of center. It has eight bright blue, long diffraction spikes. Between 4 o’clock and 6 o’clock in its spikes are several very bright galaxies. A group of three are in the middle, and two are closer to 4 o’clock. These galaxies are part of the galaxy cluster SMACS 0723, and they are warping the appearances of galaxies seen around them. Long orange arcs appear at left and right toward the center.$

$A group of five galaxies that appear close to each other in the sky: two in the middle, one toward the top, one to the upper left, and one toward the bottom. Four of the five appear to be touching. One is somewhat separated. In the image, the galaxies are large relative to the hundreds of much smaller (more distant) galaxies in the background. All five galaxies have bright white cores. Each has a slightly different size, shape, structure, and coloring. Scattered across the image, in front of the galaxies are number of foreground stars with diffraction spikes: bright white points, each with eight bright lines radiating out from the center.$

$A planetary nebula, seen by the Webb telescope’s NIRCam instrument, against the blackness of space, with points of starlight behind it. The nebula itself is shaped like an irregular oval, with lacy, reddish orange plumes of gas and dust. Further inside the circle, the gas and dust glows bright blue. A glowing white ring separates the red and blue gases. In the center of the rings are two stars, one glowing much brighter than the other, with diffraction spikes radiating out from it.$

Jasmine 🌌🔭@astrojaz· Jul 9

the voyager probes are two of humanity’s greatest achievements

Artist rendition of Voyager probe in space.

Jasmine 🌌🔭@astrojaz· Jul 6

NEW JWST IMAGE OF THE GALAXY CENTAURUS A IN HONOR OF 4 YEARS OF SCIENCE!!

$A horizontal image of the galaxy Centaurus A stretches across a black background filled with thousands of tiny purple, pink, and white points of light. The galaxy is brightest at its center, where a brilliant white and pale pink glow radiates outward. Eight diffraction spikes extend from the central glow. Delicate loops and wispy ribbons of pink and lavender arc above and below the center of the image in the shape of an ‘S’. A band of gray and white dust in the shape of a parallelogram cuts across the middle of the galaxy. Mottled patches and bright knots are scattered throughout the dusty band. The galaxy’s outer edges fade into soft, cloud-like plumes with feathery textures that stretch toward the left and right sides of the image. Against the surrounding darkness, a few bright foreground stars shine with Webb’s distinctive diffraction spikes, while countless fainter stars create a speckled backdrop.$

Jasmine 🌌🔭@astrojaz· Jul 6

omg, hubble’s new image is so pretty

Blue and white stars are sprinkled throughout a landscape of red clouds of gas and dark, swirling lanes of dust. Many additional stars are visible in the dark background of space.

Jasmine 🌌🔭@astrojaz· Jul 5

fs tau - hubble vs webb:

$A bright point of light shines near center-right with diffraction spikes, surrounded by glowing clouds against black space. A blue jet of material extends roughly throughout the center of the image, partially obscured by the clouds.$

Jasmine 🌌🔭@astrojaz· Jul 4

red white and blue, but make it space

A packed, roughly spherical cluster of red, white, and blue stars shines against the black background of space. The stars are clustered most densely toward the center of the cluster.

A growing protostar embedded within a molecular cloud. The center of the image shows a bright, red region, where the protostar resides, with a thin, gray lane cutting through it horizontally, which is the protostar’s accretion disk. Above and below this region are white and blue triangular-shaped cavities in the molecular cloud, which give the overall object an hourglass shape. The areas of the cavities closest to the central protostar have more pronounced plumes of white gas and dust that fade to a blue color further from the center. There are red, yellow, orange, blue, and green stars and galaxies scattered across the image.

An erupting gas shell surrounds a massive star.

A globular cluster packed with red, white, and blue stars scattered across the image, with a higher concentration in the middle than the edges.

Jasmine 🌌🔭@astrojaz· Jul 4

NEW RED, WHITE, AND BLUE CHANDRA IMAGES FOR THE 4TH OF JULY!!

This image features four images, showing four wonders of the universe, rendered in red, white, and blue and presented in a grid layout. The images contain X-ray data from the Chandra X-ray Observatory, optical and infrared data from the Hubble Space Telescope and the James Webb Space Telescope, as well as ground-based telescopes.

The top left image is Cassiopeia A. The top right image is NGC 3603. The bottom left image is ZwCl 0024+1652. The bottom right image is NGC 4736, also known as M94.

Jasmine 🌌🔭@astrojaz· Jul 3

we need another picture like this, every human in one photo except the one taking it.

A lunar module flies above the gray, cratered surface of the Moon, with the blue-and-white Earth rising in the black space beyond the lunar horizon.

Jasmine 🌌🔭@astrojaz· Jul 2

this is the surface of a comet. yes, a COMET.

Black-and-white close-up of the rocky surface of Comet 67P, showing steep, shadowed cliffs and a smoother dust-covered slope. A large boulder sits on the slope with a curved trail behind it, suggesting it moved or bounced across the comet’s surface.

Black-and-white close-up of Comet 67P’s rugged surface, showing rough cliffs, deep shadows, smooth dusty terrain, and scattered boulders. The image emphasizes the comet’s uneven, rocky landscape and dramatic contrast between sunlit areas and darkness.

Jasmine 🌌🔭@astrojaz· Jun 29

LOOK AT THE MOON TONIGHT!!! SHE’S SO ORANGE AND PRETTY!!

The Full Moon appearing orange in the sky.

Jasmine 🌌🔭@astrojaz· Jun 28

AFTER MONTHS OF BEGGING NASA TO SELL A RISE PLUSHIE, I FINALLY HAVE ONE!!!

A selfie of me smiling with a plushie of Rise (the zero gravity indicator for NASA’s Artemis II mission) on my shoulder.

Jasmine 🌌🔭@astrojaz· Jun 26

watching my friends defend their phds makes me realize that it’s gonna be my turn someday and that grad school is gonna fly by and my career is gonna start and life is going by so fast and oh my god oh my god oh my god oh my godohmygodohmygodohmygod

Jasmine 🌌🔭@astrojaz· Jun 26

i wish more people talked about the euclid telescope. the imagery is so beautiful and incredibly detailed

This square astronomical image is divided horizontally by a waving line between a white-orange cloudscape forming a nebula along the bottom portion and a comparatively blue-purple-pink upper portion. From the nebula in the bottom half of the image, an orange cloud shaped like a horsehead sticks out. In the bottom left of the image, a white round glow is visible. The clouds from the bottom half of the image shine purple/blue light into the upper half. The top of the image shows the black expanse of space. Speckled across both portions is a starfield, showing stars of varying sizes and colours. Blue stars are younger and red stars are older.

A filamentary orange veil covers a bright region of star formation. The background is dark, stippled with stars and galaxies ranging from small bright dots to starry shapes. The foreground veil spans from upper left to the bottom right and resembles a seahorse. Bright stars light up the ‘eye’ and ‘chest’ regions of the seahorse with purple light. Within the tail, three bright spots sit in a traffic-light like formation.

A dense field of tiny stars fills this square image taken by the European Space Agency’s Euclid space telescope. The lower and central areas are dominated by bright yellow and gold colours, forming a textured background similar to fine glitter or sand. Dark brown and black patches cut irregularly through the yellow regions, like ink stains or clouds of smoke. Toward the upper left, the colours shift to purple and reddish tones, blending gently into the surrounding star field. Small blue points of light are scattered across the image.

$Thousands of stars and galaxies dot the image against a pitch-black background. Some bright stars show six diffraction spikes coming from a central light-halo. Other stars and galaxies are just tiny bright dots, like specks of paint distributed over the image. The brightest star sits in the upper left corner. In the centre of the image, the tiny bright dots are more abundant.$

Jasmine 🌌🔭@astrojaz· Jun 24

60 MILLION stars in one image. this is a new image of the heart of our galaxy, the milky way, captured by the euclid telescope

A very dense field of tiny, closely packed points of light fills the image. The colour is almost uniform, dominated by bright yellow and gold tones across the entire frame. Small white points appear slightly brighter here and there, with a few faint bluish points scattered among them. No large dark patches or strong colour variations are visible, giving the image a smooth, grain like appearance.

Jasmine 🌌🔭@astrojaz· Jun 23

NEW COMBINED WEBB AND HUBBLE VIEW OF THE CIGAR GALAXY!!!

$Composite image of edge-on spiral starburst galaxy Messier 82 as observed by NASA's James Webb and Hubble space telescopes. Hourglass-shaped plumes of gas are shooting outward from above and below a bright blue-white, disk-shaped center. The plumes are yellow near the galaxy’s bright center, denoting areas of ionized hydrogen gas as observed by Hubble, and gradually become redder as you move farther away. Messier 82 is set against the black background of space, which has many distant galaxies that appear as small white and orange spirals, ovals, and points of light. Toward the right of Messier 82 is a blue-white star with eight-pointed diffraction spikes that are characteristic of Webb.$

Jasmine 🌌🔭@astrojaz· Jun 22

every day we get closer to voyager 1 reaching a distance of one light-day away from earth!!!!

Artist rendition of Voyager 1 spacecraft

Jasmine 🌌🔭@astrojaz· Jun 22

this is the type of picture of earth that makes you realize that we really are just a small blue rock suspended in nothingness

Earth as a faint white crescent suspended in the darkness of space.

Jasmine 🌌🔭@astrojaz· Jun 17

PERSEVERANCE HAS OFFICIALLY GONE THE DISTANCE OF AN ENTIRE MARATHON ON MARS!!

Self-portrait image of NASA’s Mars Perseverance rover west of the Jezero Crater rim looking forward.

Jasmine 🌌🔭@astrojaz· Jun 16

wake up babe, new hubble and webb collab dropped!!! 🌌

$A dramatically crowded starfield that looks like a just-shaken snow globe. The black background of space, which is clearer at the edges, is covered by thousands of tiny white, orange, and blue points of light, which are stars. The stars are most concentrated in the center, forming a roughly circular orb, and sparser at the edges of the image. Several larger orange stars, particularly those largest near the edges of the frame, have prominent diffraction spikes.$

Jasmine 🌌🔭@astrojaz· Jun 16

I WAS ON ANOTHER PODCAST!!! i talked all about my journey, what i currently work on, and gave advice to other young women interested in pursuing a stem career. it’d mean the WORLD to me if you could support it!! ➡️ open.spotify.com/show/2ywjCKO...

My cover for my In Her Orbit podcast episode.

Jasmine 🌌🔭@astrojaz· Jun 10

yes it may have been seen or whatnot, i’m just following the wording on the nasa artemis tweet they just made!

Screenshot of a NASA Artemis tweet with 4 images from Artemis II

Jasmine 🌌🔭@astrojaz· Jun 10

LOOK AT THIS BEAUTIFUL UNSEEN IMAGE FROM ARTEMIS II!!!

This photo of a crescent Moon and crescent Earth was taken by an Artemis II astronaut during their lunar flyby on April 6, 2026. This image captures one of the final moments before their loss of signal with Earth as the Orion spacecraft flew around the far side of the Moon, reemerging and regaining contact approximately 40 minutes later. Earth can be seen peeking behind the Moon in the distance. The illuminated regions of the Moon and Earth stand out against the blackness of space, while the rest are swallowed in shadow. Credit: NASA

Jasmine 🌌🔭@astrojaz· Jun 10

europa clipper science team meeting day!! 🛰️❄️