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Making the Invisible Visible 🌌⁠.⁠.These two views of NGC 5907 tell a deeper story.⁠.🖤 The top monochrome image emphasizes structure—bringing out the faint tidal stream curving around the Splinter Galaxy.⁠.🎨 The bottom color image adds depth, revealing the galaxy's stellar
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🧠🔭 Think Before You Click — We’re actively working to shut down scammers, and we want you to know what to look out for, too. 🤝. With cybercrime on the rise, it’s more important than ever to stay sharp when shopping for Celestron gear online. Here’s how to protect yourself:
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🔴✨ #Mars in Motion! Roger (@thelondonastro) tracked two months of Mars’ rotation from mid-October to mid-December, capturing the planet’s changing face with each image. 🌍➡️🔴. Captured with a #Celestron #EdgeHD 11”. #RedPlanet #PlanetaryImaging #Astrophotography #EdgeHD11
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🌹 Rosette Nebula — Cosmic Bloom 🌹.Jase brings us this jaw-dropping look at the Rosette Nebula (Caldwell 49), captured with his Celestron 8” EdgeHD. ✨ Located ~5,200 light-years away in the constellation Monoceros, the Rosette is a massive stellar nursery shaped like a
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Tonight, July 7 – Look Up!. The Moon glides past Antares, the fiery red supergiant Antares in Scorpius! 🌕🔥 Grab your binoculars and don’t miss this celestial brush-by! 🌌🔭
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🌌 .In just 2,265 seconds (37.75 minutes), the Celestron Origin captured this stunning view of the Leo Triplet—a group of three interacting galaxies: Messier 65, Messier 66, and NGC 3628, located 35 million light-years away in the constellation Leo ♌️. These galaxies aren’t just
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✨ Messier 5 – A Sugar Spill in the Sky ✨. Messier 5 is one of the most beautiful and densely packed globular clusters in the night sky. Located about 25,000 light-years away in the constellation Serpens, it contains several hundred thousand stars—some over 13 billion years old.
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🎇 Some fireworks are best viewed through a telescope. Spangled with glowing arms and lit by the remnants of stellar explosions, NGC 6946 has earned its nickname the Fireworks Galaxy. It’s a cosmic sparkler lighting up the sky between Cepheus and Cygnus—22 million light-years
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Avian Adventures Australia braved the breeze and drizzle on Tasmania’s Gordon River for Global Big Day—and loved every second. With Celestron binoculars and camera in hand, they logged sightings for science and conservation while enjoying their peaceful surroundings. 🦜🔭⁠ ⁠ 📍
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Rich is locked on target tonight—#Jupiter 🪐 is in his sights, and he’s ready to capture its activity. With his #NexStar #6SE optical tube riding on an #AdvancedGT mount and boosted by an X-Cel 2X Barlow lens, every detail is dialed in for a crisp planetary session. Let the
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Up in the #PNW, Jason spotted not one, but two #baldeagles 🦅 perched high on a distant treetop. Swipe through to witness their stunning departures—captured through a #Celestron #NexStarEvolution 8" telescope using only a smartphone. 🔭📱⁠ ⁠ ⁠
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Head out under dark skies 🌌 and find M22 in Sagittarius ♐—a globular cluster just visible to the naked eye 👁️. But the real show starts at the eyepiece 🔭: crank up the magnification and reveal hundreds of stars packed into a brilliant cluster ✨🌟.
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🌌 Studying the Shadows⁠ ⁠ During the Night Owl Star Party in West Virginia, Thorne checked out #LyndsDarkNebula 1780. #LDN1780 is a high-latitude dark nebula about 287 light-years away, its delicate dust structures barely visible, illuminated only by scattered starlight
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🌟 Trifid Nebula — A Triple Treat 🌟.Feast your eyes on this spectacular image of the Trifid Nebula (Messier 20) by @space.by.jase, captured using the Celestron 8” EdgeHD. ✨ Around 5,200 light-years away in Sagittarius, the Trifid is a rare combination nebula:.🔴 Emission
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🐉💥 The Dragon’s Egg Has Hatched. This isn’t your average puff of gas. This is the “Dragon’s Egg,” a turbulent emission nebula captured in razor-sharp detail by astrophotographer Dylan O'Donnell (@dylan_odonnell_) with his Celestron 14" EdgeHD with just under 10 hours of HOO
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✨ What’s Up in the July Night Sky? ✨. July brings some of the best stargazing of the year — here’s what to watch for:. ☀️ July: Solar Maximum .🌕 July 10: Full Moon.✨ July 16: Saturn, Pluto, and Moon Conjunction.✨ July 20: M45 and Moon Conjunction.🌑 July 24: New Moon.☄️
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🔥 Telescope Alert: See a Newly Discovered Nova! 🔥. On June 12th, astronomers discovered V462 Nova Lupi 2025 — and on June 21st, it reached a brightness of magnitude 5.6, making it visible to the naked eye from dark-sky locations. 🌌. Astrophotographer Christopher Go captured
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#Mercury is making a rare evening appearance! 🌅✨. Catch the tiny planet during the last week of June. It'll be low on the western horizon after sunset. This is one of your best chances this year to spot it with the naked eye—binoculars can help if it’s playing hard to get.🔭🌌
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🌌 First light with Celestron Origin!.At just 20 years old, Avery caught the astronomy bug at a young age. Now on his third telescope—a Celestron Origin—he’s capturing incredible deep-sky images. His first night out with Origin yielded stunning shots of:.✨ Ring Nebula.✨ North
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🌙 Last night’s session delivered some unexpected treats—check out those crisp shadows along the wrinkle ridges in #MareImbrium and #SinusIridum!. These subtle lunar features often get overlooked, but the low-angle lighting really brought them to life. Cool, right?. The #Moon
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