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The night sky is full of strange things:
This is the Bubble Nebula.
The bubble is created by the stellar wind from a massive hot young central star. Energetic radiation from the star ionizes the shell, causing it to glow in the wavelength of H ll.
About six light-years in diameter, the nebula is near a giant molecular cloud which contains the expansion of the bubble nebula while itself being excited by the hot central star, causing it to glow. It was discovered in 1787 by William and is located at a distance of 7100 light years in the the constellation Cassiopeia.
Also visible in the same field of view is the open cluster M52. Due to interstellar absorption of light, the distance to M52 is uncertain, with estimates ranging between 3,000 and 7,000 light years.
On the right edge of the image is NGC7538, another H ll nebula, which is home to the biggest yet discovered protostar (a collapsing ball of rotating gas that’s on the way to becoming a star) which is about 300 times the size of the Solar System. The distance to NGC7538 is estimated at around 9100 light years.
Astro modified Canon EOS 6D
William Optics Megrez 88 - 500mm f/5.6 piggybacked on a Celestron NexStar 8 GPS
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Timelapse excerpt from the awarded video Greek Skies
"Greek Skies" Timelapse Project
-Winner of Los Angeles Independent Film Festival Awards 2015 (Best Timelapse)
-Winner of Hollywood International Independent Documentary Awards HIIDA 2015 (Best of the Fest)
-Winner of 12 Months Film Festival 2015 (Experimental)
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Christophe Anagnostopoulos
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Even the Dukes pupils are dilated.
The refraction of the water drops just looked so over the top I thought it was worth a post and the thousand yard stare on the Duke makes you wonder what they get up on Giant's Hill.
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Ducks in a pond in Florida. The building reflections give the impression of a 3D space due to the ripples from the ducks. The "stars" are highlighted bubbles picking up the early morning light.
“the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes "Awww!"
― Jack Kerouac, On the Road
Feel the Self fade, feel the great life begin, 35
With Love re-rising in the cosmic morn.
The inward ardour yearns to the inmost goal;
The endless goal is one with the endless way;
From every gulf the tides of Being roll,
From every zenith burns the indwelling day; 40
And life in Life has drowned thee and soul in Soul;
And these are God, and thou thyself art they.
Frederick William Henry Myers, "A Cosmic Outlook" (l. 35-42). 1917.
I've been taking a shot of this setup on and off for the last few days and just can't get it right, so here it is, in all of it's average glory. I imagined the skull dude communicating with the cosmic eye but couldn't seem to land anything convincing.
Kirkjufell, Snæfellsnes Peninsula, Iceland, 07.11.12
... a night to remember...
Kamera/Camera: Canon Eos 5 D Mark III
Objektiv/Lens: Canon EF 17-40mm/ 4/ L USM
In your mind you have capacities you know
To telepath messages through the vast unknown
Please close your eyes and concentrate
With every thought you think
Upon the recitation we're about to sing
Calling occupants of interplanetary craft
Calling occupants of interplanetary most extraordinary craft
~The Carpenters~
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Week 39
From one of my school portfolios at SCAD.
Thanks Molly for standing in a nerve-wracking galaxy for me.
and for letting me take over her casa with science-y stuff.
:)
This rare speciman can be seen only in the farthest reaches of our inner universe if one is brave enough to travel there. It is well worth the dangers and obstacles one must face on the journey, but getting home again is a bummer.
In this crisis art is saving my ass, looks like many visitors of my portfolio like my work and yes today was bingo day again, my "cosmic shrimp" is sold, so to celebrate I have republished it again.
If you like to see more go to: art-portfolio.nl/ or bna.clickbest.nl or www.saatchionline.com/Challenge
Milky Way rising over Lake Superior, the Susie Islands, and Mount Josephine within Grand Portage Reservation during a mid-April solar storm.
This is a large 2-row giga-panorama comprised of 88 sky exposures blended with 11 foreground exposures taken over 25 minutes.
I was just going to use this shot as just a silhouette of myself, however i saw a photo taken by Larry Landolfi of the milky way and thought it would be cool to try and incorporate a starry night feel to it. Its got me in the mood to take some sky at night shots now!
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Not everyday you see a shot of Mt. Hood not from Trillium Lake. Haha!
Getting to this area is quite an adventure in itself. I haven't really seen landscape photographs of Mt. Hood from here so I didn't really know what to expect.
I did however have a milky way shot envisioned here. But a lot of times your plans or ideas never really happen when you want them to. The clouds were glued to the top of the mountain from sunset and throughout he night. So my milky way shot was a bust.
Although after the light skunked out during sunset and clouds blocking the milky way, the sunrise was something else. The morning light was lighting up the mountain in a bright red orange. The light probably only lasted about 2-3 minutes and I don't have a composition that I like when the light was at it's best. I still didn't walk away from this location with nothing.
The gap in the clouds offered me with one more chance to find another composition with some good light. I stumbled into this dead forest and found a nice natural frame that these trees made forming a window around Mt. Hood and the early morning light.
Mt. Hood National Forest, Oregon
August 2020
It feels like I am passing through the clouds of gaseous cosmic dust and approaching a planet :)
View in full-screen and feel the same.
Alternately, shot of a full-moon.
We are living in a beautiful planet. Let's love our planet. Let's protect our planet.
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A massive galaxy cluster in the constellation Cetus dominates the centre of this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. This image is populated with a serene collection of elliptical and spiral galaxies, but galaxies surrounding the central cluster — which is named SPT-CL J0019-2026 — appear stretched into bright arcs, as if distorted by a gargantuan magnifying glass. This cosmic contortion is called gravitational lensing, and it occurs when a massive object like a galaxy cluster has a sufficiently powerful gravitational field to distort and magnify the light from background objects. Gravitational lenses magnify light from objects that would usually be too distant and faint to observe, and so these lenses can extend Hubble’s view even deeper into the Universe.
This observation is part of an ongoing project to fill short gaps in Hubble’s observing schedule by systematically exploring the most massive galaxy clusters in the distant Universe, in the hopes of identifying promising targets for further study with both Hubble and the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope. This particular galaxy cluster lies at a vast distance of 4.6 billion light years from Earth.
Each year, the Space Telescope Science Institute is inundated with observing proposals for Hubble, in which astronomers suggest targets for observation. Even after selecting only the very best proposals, scheduling observations of all of Hubble’s targets for a year is a formidable task. There is sometimes a small fraction of observing time left unused in Hubble’s schedule, so in its ‘spare time’ the telescope has a collection of objects to explore — including the lensing galaxy cluster shown in this image.
[Image description: A cluster of large galaxies, surrounded by various stars and smaller galaxies on a dark background. The central cluster is mostly made of bright elliptical galaxies that are surrounded by a warm glow. Nearby the cluster is the stretched, distorted arc of a galaxy, gravitationally lensed by the cluster.]
Credits: ESA/Hubble & NASA, H. Ebeling; CC BY 4.0
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Antiparos is a very famous and well known place to have a fantastic time in summer, but very few people know that it's one of the "darkest" places in Greece, providing an amazing clear view to the night sky.
Light pollution is at minimun at places like Agios Georgios, the place that this photo had be taken.
Here the night sky viewer can see with his naked eye the Milky Way and of course infinite numbers of stars.
Christophe Anagnostopoulos
This is a photo of a mud puddle and gravel that has been mirrored and copied twice to create a cosmic mandala image with four symmetrical quadrants.
At first glance, this cosmic kaleidoscope of purple, blue and pink offers a strikingly beautiful — and serene — snapshot of the cosmos. However, this multi-coloured haze actually marks the site of two colliding galaxy clusters, forming a single object known as MACS J0416.1-2403 (or MACS J0416 for short).
MACS J0416 is located about 4.3 billion light-years from Earth, in the constellation of Eridanus. This new image of the cluster combines data from three different telescopes: the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope (showing the galaxies and stars), the NASA Chandra X-ray Observatory (diffuse emission in blue), and the NRAO Jansky Very Large Array (diffuse emission in pink). Each telescope shows a different element of the cluster, allowing astronomers to study MACS J0416 in detail.
As with all galaxy clusters, MACS J0416 contains a significant amount of dark matter, which leaves a detectable imprint in visible light by distorting the images of background galaxies. In this image, this dark matter appears to align well with the blue-hued hot gas, suggesting that the two clusters have not yet collided; if the clusters had already smashed into one another, the dark matter and gas would have separated. MACS J0416 also contains other features — such as a compact core of hot gas — that would likely have been disrupted had a collision already occurred.
Together with five other galaxy clusters, MACS J0416 is playing a leading role in the Hubble Frontier Fields programme, for which this data was obtained. Owing to its huge mass, the cluster is in fact bending the light of background objects, acting as a magnifying lens. Astronomers can use this phenomenon to find galaxies that existed only hundreds of million years after the big bang.
Credit: NASA, ESA, CXC, NRAO/AUI/NSF, STScI, and G. Ogrean (Stanford University)
Acknowledgment: NASA, ESA, and J. Lotz (STScI), and the HFF team
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