This is the Dumbbell Nebula! ⏳⏳⏳
Similar to many other planetary nebulae, the Dumbbell Nebula has a pattern of dark and bright knots made of gas and dust. These beautiful, ornate features are formed when stellar winds don’t fully blow away the nebula’s material and they leave a trail behind! 💘💘💘
Taken by me (Michelle Park) using the Slooh Canary Two telescope on October 17th, 2021 at 00:00 UTC.
Moon (Feb. 13, 2021)
Better late than never!
Here’s a spooky comic on Strange Stars!
https://www.popularmechanics.com/space/a23943/theoretical-strange-stars-weirdest-objects-universe/
So beautiful - I absolutely love the night sky! ✨✨✨
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This is the Christmas Tree Cluster and Cone Nebula! 🎄🎄🎄
It’s the holiday season! The Christmas Tree Cluster takes up the bulk of this image with its bright, young stars that illuminate the surrounding dust. The Cone Nebula is much smaller and is the protruding cone-shaped item at the mid-bottom leftish of the image with its dark, absorbing gas! ✨✨✨
Taken by me (Michelle Park) using the Slooh Canary Three telescope on December 13th, 2020 at 00:22 UTC.
Art and astronomy are always linked
The painting Starry Night is one of the most famous icons of the night sky ever created. The scene was painted by Vincent van Gogh in southern France in 1889. The swirling style of Starry Night appears, to many, to make the night sky come alive. Although van Gogh frequently portrayed real settings in his paintings, art historians do not agree on precisely what stars and planets are being depicted in Starry Night. The style of Starry Night is post-impressionism, a popular painting style at the end of the nineteenth century. The original Starry Night painting hangs in the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, New York, USA. source
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This is the Blue Moon! 🌝✨🌝✨🌝✨
A blue moon occurs when there are more than 1 full moon per month (it’s not actually blue 😭). We were lucky to have it on Halloween since this occurrence is pretty rare: the next time there will be a blue moon on Halloween is 19 years from now! 👻🎃🦇🍬🍭🍫
Taken by me (Michelle Park) using the Slooh Canary Two telescope on October 31st, 2020 at 23:29 UTC.
Spooky Goosy