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Ԏєηυкι, 手抜き🚀🐧♏ 🔭 ⚫⚪

#otd 1990 #space #history Shuttle STS-31 startet for deploying the Hubble Space telescope in 611 km orbit ( highest STS ever) . Special was from the crew the 53 y old veteran Bruce McCandless who already took place in Houston 1969 on Moonlanding . He and veteran John Young should have brought Hubble to space in 1986 . But Challenger catastrophe postponed it for 4 years . Ms Kathryn Sullivan is one of the 6 US Astro Ladies til the 90ies . However Hubble failed 😞 until its repair.

The image shows the Hubble Space Telescope in orbit, with its solar panels extended and Earth visible in the background.
A mission patch featuring an illustration of a space shuttle and the Hubble Space Telescope against a backdrop of stars and a galaxy. The names "Shriver," "Bolden," "Hawley," "McCandless," and "Sullivan"
A group of five astronauts poses in blue polo shirts in front of a cosmic background featuring stars and galaxies. They hold a mission emblem for STS-31, which includes an illustration of the Space Shuttle and the Hubble Space Telescope.
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cafuego 🔭🤦🏼‍♂️

This is a closer look at the jets of material coming off one of the newly forming stars in Chamaeleon 1.

It is blowing a cone shaped jet toward us, and you can just barely make out a fainter one on the other side of the object.

Stars that are slightly older are clearing the dust around them and are making a wispy blue nebula, much like the Pleiades.

60 x 300 seconds of data with :meade_lx200_acf_ota: :zwo_uvircut_filter: :zwo_294mc: :zwo_am5: and processed with @Siril_Official

A dusty mess with stars making it shine blue. In the middle, a distinct V shape is made by a star blowing material off its magnetic poles.
#astrophotography#Astrodon#space
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cafuego 🔭🤦🏼‍♂️

Dust, dust and then some more dust.

This is Chamaeleon 1, part of the Chamaeleon CO Complex in the deep south. As opposed to the Dark Doodad (which is not far away) this region is rife with easily visible newly forming stars.

Hot bright large young stars are lighting up the dust with their blue light, whilst ones that are still forming are sending out jets of material from their dusty cocoons.

A distant galaxy on the left hand side, NGC3620, looks reddish because the dust scatters away the blue light. Like a smoky sunset on Earth.

120 x 300 second images acquired with :wo_redcat_61: :zwo_uvircut_filter: :zwo_294mc: :zwo_am5: and processed with @Siril_Official

A dense star field with curtains of dust hanging in front. The central part of the dust cloud is dense enough to obscure stars, and some knots are so dense they look completely black. Embedded in the dust are bits of blue nebulosity, as well as a small yellowish semi-circle and a small yellowish inverted V shape.
#astrophotography#Astrodon#space
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On this day in 1183 BCE, traditional reckoning of the Fall of Troy marks the end of the legendary Trojan War. #Troy #TrojanWar

On this day in 1916, Easter Rising: Irish rebels launch an uprising in Dublin against British rule and proclaim an Irish Republic.#Ireland #EasterRising

On this day in 1967, Soviet Cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov dies in Soyuz 1 as its parachute becomes entangled. The first man to die during a space mission. #Soyuz #Space

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