Happy First Contact Day! 🖖🏻 Live Long And Prosper 🖖🏻

This video is made from 47 images captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft during a flyby of Saturn's moon Hyperion on May 31, 2015. Changing spectral filters result in slightly different exposures and contrasts. (Images were sourced through @setiinstitute's OPUS3 online server.

NGC 2024, Flame Nebula

When Moons and Shadows Dance

Vega, The Star at the Center of Everything

A breathtaking view of Neptune captured from the Keck Observatory in infrared.

Hubble spots Dark Star-Hatching frEGGs ©

Trapezium: At the Heart of Orion

Credits: Hubble Legacy Archive, Robert Gendler

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured an awe-inspiring image of the Serpens Nebula! This stellar nursery, located 1,300 light-years away, reveals intricate filaments of gas and dust, offering a mesmerizing glimpse into star formation. Explore the universe's wonders with this breathtaking view and dive into the early stages of star birth.

Credit: JWSP-NASA

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Credit: ESA/Webb, NASA, CSA, T. Ray (Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies).

"To Space" by Nikolai Surin (1961)