Such A Beautiful Gif ♥♥♥

This is the Box Nebula AKA The Little Gem Nebula! 📦 💎 📦 💎 📦💎

Although this planetary nebula may look small, it’s around 4 light years across! The unusual shape may be due to its orientation to us… 👀👀👀

Taken by me (Michelle Park) using the Slooh Canary Two telescope on June 19th, 2020 at 00:02 UTC. 

different worlds

sharing my first post shared in tumblr. 

My favorite nebula ever! I always use this for my profile pictures 😂😂😂

Check out more on my astrophotography blog: mystarypi-astronomy.tumblr.com!

Lagoon Nebula, M8, in Sagittarius ❤

Taken by me (Michelle Park) using the Slooh Canary Two Telescope, taken in August 2018.

2022 May 15

Colors of the Moon Image Credit & Copyright: Marcella Giulia Pace

Explanation: What color is the Moon? It depends on the night. Outside of the Earth’s atmosphere, the dark Moon, which shines by reflected sunlight, appears a magnificently brown-tinged gray. Viewed from inside the Earth’s atmosphere, though, the moon can appear quite different. The featured image highlights a collection of apparent colors of the full moon documented by one astrophotographer over 10 years from different locations across Italy. A red or yellow colored moon usually indicates a moon seen near the horizon. There, some of the blue light has been scattered away by a long path through the Earth’s atmosphere, sometimes laden with fine dust. A blue-colored moon is more rare and can indicate a moon seen through an atmosphere carrying larger dust particles. What created the purple moon is unclear – it may be a combination of several effects. The last image captures the total lunar eclipse of 2018 July – where the moon, in Earth’s shadow, appeared a faint red – due to light refracted through air around the Earth. Today there is not only another full moon but a total lunar eclipse visible to observers in North and South America – an occurrence that may lead to some unexpected lunar colorings.

∞ Source: apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap220515.html

𝐓𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐝𝐚𝐲, 8 𝐝𝐞𝐜 • The fact that it's the last monthly spread of this year seems so unreal..I did this constellation kind of theme because outer space have a special place in my heart and this is my birth month so why not! also let's say goodbye to this unfortunate year and wish that the new moon of 2021 will bring new lights!✨

🎧: 𝐅𝐥𝐲 𝐭𝐨 𝐦𝐲 𝐫𝐨𝐨𝐦_𝐁𝐓𝐒

2020 November 22

Dark Molecular Cloud Barnard 68 Image Credit: FORS Team, 8.2-meter VLT Antu, ESO

Explanation: Where did all the stars go? What used to be considered a hole in the sky is now known to astronomers as a dark molecular cloud. Here, a high concentration of dust and molecular gas absorb practically all the visible light emitted from background stars. The eerily dark surroundings help make the interiors of molecular clouds some of the coldest and most isolated places in the universe. One of the most notable of these dark absorption nebulae is a cloud toward the constellation Ophiuchus known as Barnard 68, pictured here. That no stars are visible in the center indicates that Barnard 68 is relatively nearby, with measurements placing it about 500 light-years away and half a light-year across. It is not known exactly how molecular clouds like Barnard 68 form, but it is known that these clouds are themselves likely places for new stars to form. In fact, Barnard 68 itself has been found likely to collapse and form a new star system. It is possible to look right through the cloud in infrared light.

∞ Source: apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap201122.html

This is the Gabriela Mistral Nebula! 💫💫💫

Gabriela Mistral is a Chilean poet who was the first Latin American author to win a Nobel Prize in Literature. This nebula has her name because some believe that it resembles her (I honestly don’t know why 😂). Millions of years ago, a deposit of gas resulted in a surge of star formation that heats up and radiates this region today! ✨✨✨

Taken by me (Michelle Park) using the Slooh Chile Two telescope on January 13th, 2021 at 5:17 UTC.

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