Hoag’s Object is a rare ring galaxy located over 600 million light-years from Earth. A nearly perfect circle full of young blue stars surrounds a spheroid of mostly older red giant stars. In between is a gap that appears almost completely empty. Delightfully distinctive. 📸 Credit: NASA/STScl/AURA

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Purple sunset.

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JWST CONTINUES TO EXCEED OUR EXPECTATIONS!! ✨ recently, it confirmed a 20 year-old mystery discovered by hubble, finding that there are planet-forming disks in the early universe that are longer lived than they should be, given environmental conditions!

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I do astronomy for a living, and images like this *still* take my breath away. What a beautiful universe we live in. Even in the midst of trouble, grief, & anything you might be struggling with (like we all are) - try to seek out the beauty. It helps ❤️

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Extremely detailed photo of Martian soil from the Curiosity rover 🔍

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