Today I was guest on the late breakfast show on national television #ZDF „Volle Kanne“ with my new book. We talked about almost everything: the Big Bang, quantum physics, God, meteorite impacts, black holes, alien life - you name it! It was fun and they threw out some prerecorded clips so that we could have more time to chat 😉. And I had breakfast…
Today I was guest on the late breakfast show on national television #ZDF „Volle Kanne“ with my new book. We talked about almost everything: the Big Bang, quantum physics, God, meteorite impacts, black holes, alien life - you name it! It was fun and they threw out some prerecorded clips so that we could have more time to chat 😉. And I had breakfast…
Right in time for #Halloween 🎃
The VLT Survey Telescope has spotted a spooky bat flying over Paranal in #Chile. But fear not, it's located 10,000 light-years away.
What looks like a "cosmic bat" is in fact a large cloud of cosmic gas and dust where new stars are being born. Let's fly through it in this video...if you dare! 🦇
Read more: https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso2518/
📷 ESO/VPHAS+ team/VVV team
NOIRLab image of the week
A Lunar Delight Deep in the Desert
Credit: NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/P. Horálek (Institute of Physics in Opava)
https://noirlab.edu/public/images/iotw2544a/
#Moon #NOIRLab #Astronomy #Astrodon #photography #moonphotography #astrophotography
This new annotated JWST Picture of the Month features a cosmic creepy-crawly called NGC 6537 - the Red Spider Nebula. Using its Near-InfraRed Camera (NIRCam), Webb has revealed never-before-seen details in this picturesque planetary nebula with a rich backdrop of thousands of stars.
Credit: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, J. H. Kastner (Rochester Institute of Technology)
https://esawebb.org/images/potm2510b/
#Astrophysics #JWST #Nebula #astrodon #space #science #stars
This new annotated JWST Picture of the Month features a cosmic creepy-crawly called NGC 6537 - the Red Spider Nebula. Using its Near-InfraRed Camera (NIRCam), Webb has revealed never-before-seen details in this picturesque planetary nebula with a rich backdrop of thousands of stars.
Credit: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, J. H. Kastner (Rochester Institute of Technology)
https://esawebb.org/images/potm2510b/
#Astrophysics #JWST #Nebula #astrodon #space #science #stars
The magic of a pristine sky 🤩
The Milky Way arches over our Very Large Telescope, set under a colourful sky. This so-called airglow is extremely faint and only noticeable in the darkest regions, such as the Atacama Desert in #Chile. So, preserving pristine skies not only enables cutting-edge research, but it also allows photographers to capture the magic of a perfectly dark night.
https://www.eso.org/public/images/potw2543a/
📷 J. Looten/ESO
#astrodon #astronomy #astrophotography #astrophysics #space #science
The magic of a pristine sky 🤩
The Milky Way arches over our Very Large Telescope, set under a colourful sky. This so-called airglow is extremely faint and only noticeable in the darkest regions, such as the Atacama Desert in #Chile. So, preserving pristine skies not only enables cutting-edge research, but it also allows photographers to capture the magic of a perfectly dark night.
https://www.eso.org/public/images/potw2543a/
📷 J. Looten/ESO
#astrodon #astronomy #astrophotography #astrophysics #space #science
Edited image of NGC7000 (north america nebula) from my field session > 1 month ago. Due to the circumstances only about 1h of usable data, but still! Other images show the setup used (TS2600C, HAE29). #astrodon #astrophotography #SilentSunday #astronomy
 
      
  
                            
                        
                         
      
  
                            
                        
                         
      
  
                            
                        
                        Fresh JWST view of Uranus taken Oct 6 2025 with NIRCam.
Full size & more info: https://flic.kr/p/2rByidu
Credit: NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI/Andrea Luck CC BY
Proposal PI: Varun Bajaj
Proposal ID: 8975
Filters: F150W2-F162M, F410M
#Uranus #JWST #Space #Astronomy #Solarocks #IceGiants #Astrodon
Fresh JWST view of Uranus taken Oct 6 2025 with NIRCam.
Full size & more info: https://flic.kr/p/2rByidu
Credit: NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI/Andrea Luck CC BY
Proposal PI: Varun Bajaj
Proposal ID: 8975
Filters: F150W2-F162M, F410M
#Uranus #JWST #Space #Astronomy #Solarocks #IceGiants #Astrodon
1/2 Thousands of eyes on the sky: 4MOST sees first light 🎉
Installed on our VISTA telescope in #Chile, 4MOST has completed the first test observations over the weekend.
It is the largest facility of its kind to survey the southern skies. It can capture the light of thousands of cosmic objects simultaneously, using more than 2400 thin optical fibres, each about the width of a human hair.
📷 AIP/A. Saviauk
1/2 Thousands of eyes on the sky: 4MOST sees first light 🎉
Installed on our VISTA telescope in #Chile, 4MOST has completed the first test observations over the weekend.
It is the largest facility of its kind to survey the southern skies. It can capture the light of thousands of cosmic objects simultaneously, using more than 2400 thin optical fibres, each about the width of a human hair.
📷 AIP/A. Saviauk
I am so very excited to share this story. Def. a career highlight!
Having the opportunity to sit down and have a one-on-one candid chat with the woman who discovered pulsars and changed the course of astrophysics, leading to me being extremely passionate about this topic and eventually moving into a career of pulsar astronomy. Yeah, this was big.
I hope you enjoy this interview, where Prof. Bell Burnell offers some personal insight into the history of the big discovery as well as the legacy of one of astronomy’s most iconic and influential figures.
What an honour it is to tell this story!
https://www.spaceaustralia.com/feature/interview-dame-professor-jocelyn-bell-burnell
📸 University of Cambridge
#SpaceAustralia #RadioAstronomy #Pulsars #JocelynBellBurnell #Astrophysics #Science #Astrodon
I am so very excited to share this story. Def. a career highlight!
Having the opportunity to sit down and have a one-on-one candid chat with the woman who discovered pulsars and changed the course of astrophysics, leading to me being extremely passionate about this topic and eventually moving into a career of pulsar astronomy. Yeah, this was big.
I hope you enjoy this interview, where Prof. Bell Burnell offers some personal insight into the history of the big discovery as well as the legacy of one of astronomy’s most iconic and influential figures.
What an honour it is to tell this story!
https://www.spaceaustralia.com/feature/interview-dame-professor-jocelyn-bell-burnell
📸 University of Cambridge
#SpaceAustralia #RadioAstronomy #Pulsars #JocelynBellBurnell #Astrophysics #Science #Astrodon
 
      
  
             
      
  
                            
                        
                         
      
  
                            
                        
                         
      
  
                            
                        
                         
      
  
                            
                        
                         
      
  
             
      
  
                            
                        
                         
      
  
             
      
  
                            
                        
                         
      
  
             
      
  
                            
                        
                         
      
  
                            
                        
                         
      
  
                            
                        
                         
      
  
             
      
  
             
      
  
                            
                        
                         
      
  
                            
                        
                         
      
  
            