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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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This is the Skull Nebula! 💀💀💀

The glow of this eerie nebula is perfect for Halloween! This planetary nebula has a binary star system with a third star orbiting it. The beautiful colors of this nebula come from the outer layers of a Sun-like star that died in an explosion! 👻👻👻

Taken by me (Michelle Park) using the Slooh Canary Three telescope on October 28th, 2021 at 1:57 UTC.

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This is the Crescent Nebula! 🌙🌙🌙

Happy Valentine’s Day! To celebrate, here is a ❤red❤ emission nebula: its color is created by energized hydrogen. This nebula was formed by a young Wolf-Rayet star blowing stellar wind and when the star became a red giant, it energized the wind! 💫💫💫

Taken by me (Michelle Park) on February 14th, 2021 at 6:51 UTC using the Slooh Canary Two telescope.

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This is Haley’s Coronet! 👑👑👑

The interaction between the larger spiral galaxy and its dwarf galaxy have created plumes of dust around the duo. The process of the larger galaxy eating the smaller one is actually called galactic cannibalism (spooky)! 👻👻👻

Taken by me (Michelle Park) using the Slooh Chile Two telescope on January 13th, 2021 at 3:18 UTC.

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This is the Cat’s Paw Nebula! 🐾🐾🐾

This nebula is glowing due to the interactions between its hot stars and large molecules known as polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons. This makes it particularly bright in the infrared and a common target for astrophotography in the Milky Way galaxy! 🔭🔭🔭

Taken by me (Michelle Park) using the Slooh Chile Two telescope on March 7th, 2021 at 6:38 UTC.

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This is Vega! ✨✨✨

This is the brightest star in the summer constellation Lyra and the 5th brightest star in the night sky. Infrared observations have confirmed a circumstellar disk of dust around this star, similar to the Kuiper Belt around the solar system! 🌃🌃🌃

Taken by me (Michelle Park) using the Slooh Canary Two telescope on July 5th, 2021 at 22:26 UTC. 

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This is the Skull Nebula! 💀💀💀

The glow of this eerie nebula is perfect for Halloween! This planetary nebula has a binary star system with a third star orbiting it. The beautiful colors of this nebula come from the outer layers of a Sun-like star that died in an explosion! 👻👻👻

Taken by me (Michelle Park) using the Slooh Canary Three telescope on October 28th, 2021 at 1:57 UTC.

Hello everyone! A few months ago, I released Project DeLight -  an initiative against light pollution in our community.

I just made an instagram for this project so please follow us for updates! ✨✨✨

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This is the Eagle Nebula! 🦅🦅🦅

This young cluster of stars and the distinct Pillars of Creation at the center of the nebula are located in the constellation of Serpens. These stars, which were formed in the HII region of this nebula, are very massive: some of them are up to 1 million solar luminosities! ✨✨✨

Taken by me (Michelle Park) using the Slooh Canary Two telescope on May 9th, 2021 at 00:36 UTC. 

The Silver Coin Galaxy 🌌

My favorite galaxy by far. This starburst spiral galaxy, also known as NGC 253, is undergoing massive star formation and thus is incredibly bright ✨

Taken by me (Michelle Park) using the Slooh Canary Two telescope on October 20th, 2019.

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One of my favorite nebulae ♥♥♥ It looks so beautiful 🥰🥰🥰

NGC 6357: Cathedral to Massive Stars via NASA https://ift.tt/31D4Lqn

How massive can a normal star be? Estimates made from distance, brightness and standard solar models had given one star in the open cluster Pismis 24 over 200 times the mass of our Sun, making it one of the most massive stars known. This star is the brightest object located just above the gas front in the featured image. Close inspection of images taken with the Hubble Space Telescope, however, have shown that Pismis 24-1 derives its brilliant luminosity not from a single star but from three at least. Component stars would still remain near 100 solar masses, making them among the more massive stars currently on record. Toward the bottom of the image, stars are still forming in the associated emission nebula NGC 6357. Appearing perhaps like a Gothic cathedral, energetic stars near the center appear to be breaking out and illuminating a spectacular cocoon.

(Published August 30, 2020)