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This is the Lagoon Nebula! 💗💗💗
The beautiful lagoon shaped portion is created from aggressive stellar winds pushing the nebulae’s gas and dust aside. Many of the stars here are young, hot O-type stars that are more than 200,000 times brighter than the Sun! ✨✨✨
Taken by me (Michelle Park) using the Slooh Canary Two telescope on July 23rd, 2022 at 22:31 UTC.
This is the Eskimo Nebula! ⛄⛄⛄
This nebula is created by the death of a Sun-like star and its strange 2 layered appearance gives it a lot of creative names such as the Clown-Faced Nebula or the Lion Nebula. Even though it looks like the planetary nebula is smooth, the reality is that it has dense filaments of matter all around it! ✨✨✨
Taken by me (Michelle Park) using the Slooh Chile One telescope on December 6th, 2020 at 3:58 UTC.
the day is so lovely—she’s sunlit and she’s perfect—and i don’t know if it’s the dreamy light or the magic that is monday or the fact that i remembered to drink water for the first time in a week but i’m sitting at my desk absolutely thrilled to be organizing my day and sorting through data and diving into research
the john rylands library
Unknown Orbit🪐💫 A painting for my first solo exhibition ’Out of this World’ at Gallery Nucleus in November! I hope you like it, I really enjoyed painting this💕✨
This is the Trifid Nebula! 🌺🌺🌺
With an age of around 300,000 years, this nebula is one of the youngest emission nebulae known. Its name comes from the multiple dust lanes across the nebulae that cover a newly born cluster of stars! ✨✨✨
Taken by me (Michelle Park) using the Slooh Canary Two telescope on August 24th, 2021 at 22:48 UTC.
This is the 2021 Pink Supermoon!🌜🌷🌸🌹🌺🌼💐💮
Although this moon is not pink, the name “Pink Moon” is named after the pink phlox flower that appears in the spring during the time of this event. This rare celestial event won’t happen again for another 8 years so be sure to check it out! ✨✨✨
Taken by me (Michelle Park) using the Slooh telescopes on April 26th, 2021.
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This is Mirach’s Ghost! 👻👻👻
This spooky image has 2 beautiful objects of interest: Mirach’s Ghost (the fuzzy galaxy on the top right) and Mirach (the bright red giant star in the center). The star is a mere 200 light years away while the galaxy is at a whopping 10 million light years away! 🎃🎃🎃
Taken by me (Michelle Park) using the Slooh Canary Three telescope on October 29th, 2021 at 3:26 UTC.