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“We are travelers on a cosmic journey,stardust,swirling and dancing in the eddies and whirlpools of infinity. Life is eternal. We have stopped for a moment to encounter each other, to meet, to love, to share.This is a precious moment. It is a little parenthesis in eternity.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
After the Milky Way disappeared behind the clouds, I took a different composition of the pier to take in the reflections. It was an amazing night to stand at the water's edge of Lake Cuyamaca and look up and admire the galaxy. FAVorite, share and comment!
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Cosmic Soup is a juicy IPA that is brewed with a special strain of yeast that has the incredible ability to change non-fruity compounds into something that tastes like tropical fruits. It’s dry hopped with citra, cryo, simcoe, galaxy, whilpool hop and idaho 7, unconventional mash hop with Saaz and Cascade to maximize the fruitiness From Parallel 49 in Eastvan
Another shot of the Aurora Australis from Boulder Rock in south east Perth, Western Australia. This one is a 4-shot panorama taken a bit earlier. While the aurora isn't as strong, it shows off the pink hues in the sky as well as the Milky Way and Magellanic Clouds. [Explored 23 May 2024]
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I don't often upload my astrophotography images, mainly because I'm a bit of a beginner and I've only been doing it for the last couple of years. In reality, that's probably less than 6 months due to the Northern Irish weather! Every now and again, I'll try and upload something space-related if you want. This shot was just under 3 hours of exposure time.
If anyone needs some online lessons in deep space photography, I can give them. I know the learning curve is pretty steep!
The Horsehead and Flame Nebulae, part of the Orion Molecular Cloud Complex. 82 x 2 min exposures using an ASI2600MC Pro and a William Optics Zenithstar 73 with an Optolong L-Enhance filter. Gain 100.
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Asi 2600mc-pro / / f/5.9 / 9840s / William Optics Zenithstar 73 III APO @ 430mm / Location: Orion, Space
The Universal Cosmic Band plays the music of the stars. Check it out:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=46IqZFjRIbg
Image imagined in MidJourney AI and finished with Topaz Studio 2.0 and Lightroom Classic.
It is not the Moon that is regressing; rather, we, on the lap of and along with Mother Earth, are orbiting and shadowing over the Moon. It reminds one of Plato’s allegory of the cave — light and darkness shaping what we perceive as real. This silent soliloquy reverberated in the vacuum of the orbiting solar system, in the infinite darkness of the universe, occurring as some celestial events of which randomness is apparent, but when looked upon closely, a prefixed destiny of meeting and moving away. This natural cosmic chiaroscuro is formed by our own reflection, along with a complete shadow of what has been our home for millions of years, what has been the total summing up of what we were, are, and ever will be, and what were ours, are, and ever will be in the same vessel or chalice. As the human race, did we ever want to see our face in the mirror? Maybe a lunar eclipse is none other than Allah's reminder to check our own visage in the mirror, in totality. Shakespeare called the Moon ‘the sovereign mistress of true melancholy,’ and does she seem to embody that particular mood here, slipping quietly into obscurity? I think not. I think it is the original form of humility that was supposed to be the ultimate companion of a person, in the somnolent walk of life. However, we are always so easily dazzled.
Warped tour…of space? ✨
See those strange arcs and streaks in this new Webb image? They’re actually distant galaxies, magnified and warped due to an effect called gravitational lensing.
This effect occurs when an object — here, a foreground galaxy cluster — has such a massive gravitational pull that it warps time and space around it. Light follows that bend instead of traveling in a straight line, distorting and brightening what’s behind the object.
Because it magnifies distant objects that would otherwise be too faint or far away, gravitational lensing is a useful tool for astronomers. One example in this image is a galaxy known as the Cosmic Seahorse, seen as a long distorted arc in the lower right quadrant. Its brightness is greatly magnified by the gravitational lens, allowing astronomers to study star formation there.
Read more: esawebb.org/images/potm2303a/
Credit: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, J. Rigby
Image description: Many small galaxies are scattered on a black background: mainly white, oval-shaped and red, spiral galaxies. To the lower right is a galaxy cluster, with a very large and bright elliptical galaxy at its center. Thin, reddish, stretched-out arcs surround it. One arc is thick and much brighter. Another red galaxy is large and warped, just next to the cluster core.
Cosmic Rosebud NGC 7129 with Open Cluster NGC7142
These bright young stars are found in a rosebud-shaped (and rose-colored) nebulosity known as NGC 7129. The star cluster and its associated nebula are located at a distance of 3300 light-years in the constellation Cepheus.
A recent census of the cluster reveals the presence of 130 young stars. The stars formed from a massive cloud of gas and dust that contains enough raw materials to create a thousand Sun-like stars. In a process that astronomers still poorly understand, fragments of this molecular cloud became so cold and dense that they collapsed into stars. Most stars in our Milky Way galaxy are thought to form in such clusters.
Astronomers believe that our own Sun may have formed billions of years ago in a cluster similar to NGC 7129. Once the radiation from new cluster stars destroys the surrounding placental material, the stars begin to slowly drift apart.
source: www.spitzer.caltech.edu/image/ssc2004-02a1-reflection-neb...
RGB image in Bortle 7 Skies ~11.5 hrs integration time
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Mural entitled "Cosmic Dance" by Joy Hernandez aka @joythestampede located on the Monkey's Tale property at 925 East Westfield Boulevard in the Broad Ripple area of Indianapolis, Indiana.
Photo by James aka Urbanmuralhunter on that other photo site.
Edit by Teee
This image is packed full of galaxies! A keen eye can spot exquisite ellipticals and spectacular spirals, seen at various orientations: edge-on with the plane of the galaxy visible, face-on to show off magnificent spiral arms, and everything in between. The vast majority of these specks are galaxies, but to spot a foreground star from our own galaxy, you can look for a point of light with tell-tale diffraction spikes.
The most alluring subject sits at the centre of the frame. With the charming name of SDSSJ0146-0929, the glowing central bulge is a galaxy cluster — a monstrous collection of hundreds of galaxies all shackled together in the unyielding grip of gravity. The mass of this galaxy cluster is large enough to severely distort the spacetime around it, creating the odd, looping curves that almost encircle the cluster.
These graceful arcs are examples of a cosmic phenomenon known as an Einstein ring. The ring is created as the light from a distant objects, like galaxies, pass by an extremely large mass, like this galaxy cluster. In this image, the light from a background galaxy is diverted and distorted around the massive intervening cluster and forced to travel along many different light paths towards Earth, making it seem as though the galaxy is in several places at once.
Credits: ESA/Hubble & NASA, CC BY 4.0
Acknowledgement: Judy Schmidt
You might have noticed that this is similar to an earlier image of mine.
I shot the earlier image as a ode to evolving and becoming more confident as an artist. I thought it would be interesting and perfect to create a new, similar image as a new of expressing that same feeling.
This year I have really been working on getting over things that I felt that have been holding me back creatively and it's been the most freeing feeling to do so. It's been so wondeful this week creating with as much time as I need. I cannot wait to get that point all the time.
Happy Creating! xx
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This is the combination of my love for dolls and Hed Kandi. <3 <3 <3
Rising stars and the Milky Way over the beaches of mountain Pelion. Used the @triggertrap remote to take the shot.
Shot with Canon 6D + Samyang 14mm f2.8
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Out in 86, the cosmic fleet voyager was my favourite set as a kid. Here is the front part of the ship. The Lab in the back will come later.
Here for more pictures and details. ^^
I took the stars from my eyes and then I made a map
And knew that somehow I could find my way back
Then I heard your heart beating, you were in the darkness too
So I stayed in the darkness with you
The stars, the moon
They have all been blown out
You've left me in the dark
No dawn, no day
I'm always in this twilight
In the shadow of your heart
Cosmic Engineers is a science fiction novel by American author Clifford D. Simak. It was published in 1950 by Gnome Press in an edition of 6,000 copies, of which 1,000 were bound in paperback for an armed forces edition. The novel was originally serialized in the magazine Astounding in 1939.
The novel concerns a group of earthmen and a girl, who is awakened from suspended animation, being contacted by aliens with whom they join to prevent the collision of one universe with another.
I love her sooo much! After getting all of the tinsel out she’s perfection. I left her bangs alone because I was lazy and I think it looks cute there. Totally recommend getting her (:
16” X 12”, 40.6 cm X 30.4 cm,
Oil on Canvas, 2022
Where does life come from?
Body, Womb, Seed, Egg, Cocoon...etc?
Webb is clearing up a space mystery!
Early in our cosmic history, gas in the universe shifted — over hundreds of millions of years — from opaque to transparent. Only when the gas became clear did light travel freely through the cosmos. But how did this change happen? Webb proves the answer lies in galaxies from the early universe.
Astronomers looked into galaxies so far away that their light took almost 13 billion years to reach us. That made these galaxies the perfect window into what the universe was like about 900 million years after the big bang, just before it became fully transparent.
Webb witnessed these galaxies heating up and ionizing the gas around them, turning their surrounding regions transparent. These transparent “bubbles” were about 2 million light-years in radius! Scientists believe the bubbles of transparency eventually grew and merged, creating a transparent universe. Learn more: www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2023/nasa-s-webb-proves-gala...
This image:
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has returned extraordinarily detailed near-infrared images of galaxies that existed when the universe was only 900 million years old, including never-before-seen structures. These distant galaxies are clumpy, often elongated, and are actively forming stars.
Credits: NASA, ESA, CSA, Simon Lilly (ETH Zürich), Daichi Kashino (Nagoya University), Jorryt Matthee (ETH Zürich), Christina Eilers (MIT), Rob Simcoe (MIT), Rongmon Bordoloi (NCSU), Ruari Mackenzie (ETH Zürich); Image Processing: Alyssa Pagan (STScI), Ruari Mackence Institute.
Image description: Six galaxies appear in boxes, three by two. From top left to bottom right: EIGER 4741 is made up of six hazy red or pink dots, and takes up about a quarter of the image. EIGER 4396 is primarily a hazy pink dot at the center with a very faint, smaller purple dot at its bottom right. EIGER 18026 looks like a paintbrush smudge, starting a third of the way from top left and ending about a third of the way from bottom right. The line is faint to start, bright red and bulbous at the center, and links faintly to three smaller purple dots at bottom right. EIGER 4784 also takes up a lot of the space. It has many pink and red ovals at the center along a mostly horizontal line, and a red dot and a blue dot appear arching up in a disconnected clockwise spiral shape. There is a red haze from center to the right, with a brighter red dot appearing a little lower at right. EIGER 7426 is on the smaller side, and has a larger white circle at center that connects with faint pink lines to a dot above it and one at the four o’clock position. EIGER 9209 appears smeared across the space, with a bright, larger red dot with a pink-white center toward the middle with a haze of red above it. The faint line breaks, but points toward a bright red dot at the top right, which also has a hazy red region around it.
The is a high resolution 2 panel mosaic of the Cosmic Reef and surrounding friends located in the Small Magellanic Cloud.
This images was processed in SHO + HOO with RGB. stars. The colour pallet intended purpose is to showcase the emissions in the following manner:
Ha = Red
Ha + Oiii = Purple
Ha + Sii = Gold
Oiii = Blue/Cyan
The original resolution is 8448 x 12735.
This region, located in the Dorado constellation and approximately 163,000 light-years from Earth, is home to some of the most spectacular nebulae and star clusters in this region.
Here are some of the interesting regions present in this image.
The Cosmic Reef: NGC 2014 and NGC 2020
At the top left corner of the frame is the Cosmic Reef, comprising NGC 2014 and NGC 2020. NGC 2014, often likened to a vibrant coral, is a massive star-forming region illuminated by the intense radiation of young, massive Wolf-Rayet stars. Its rich red and orange hues are a result of glowing hydrogen and nitrogen gas. In stark contrast, NGC 2020, with its striking blue and purple glow, is formed by the stellar winds of a single massive star, showcasing the beauty of ionised oxygen gas.
Surrounding Nebulae: NGC 2030, 2032, 2040
In the vicinity of the Cosmic Reef, other nebulae like NGC 2030, 2032, 2040, and 2029 to add to this landscape. Each of these emission nebulae is a hotbed of star formation, illuminated by the stars within.
NGC 2029
Right at the bottom of the frame is NGC 2029, an intriguing and relatively less-studied object located in the Large Magellanic Cloud.
Star Clusters
Adding to there are several star clusters such as NGC 2004, 2003, 2006, 2002, 2041, 2047, 2034, 1978, and 2053, range from young, bright blue star groups to older clusters adorned with red and yellow stars. For instance, NGC 2004 is celebrated for its luminous, massive stars, while NGC 1978 stands out as one of the older clusters, rich in evolved stars are really quite interesting to look zoomed in
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Frames:
Antlia 3nm Narrowband H-alpha 1.25": 113×600″(18h 50′) (gain: 139.00) -10°C
Antlia 3nm Narrowband Oxygen III 1.25": 63×600″(10h 30′) (gain: 139.00) -10°C
Antlia 3nm Narrowband Sulfur II 1.25": 61×600″(10h 10′) (gain: 139.00) -10°C
Antlia Blue Pro: 40×60″(40′) (gain: 76.00) -10°C
Antlia Green Pro: 40×60″(40′) (gain: 76.00) -10°C
Antlia Red Pro: 40×60″(40′) (gain: 76.00) -10°C
Integration:
41h 30′
Askar 107PHQ
ZWO ASI1600MM Pro
Sky-Watcher EQ6-R Pro
Filters
Antlia 3nm Narrowband H-alpha 1.25" · Antlia 3nm Narrowband Oxygen III 1.25" · Antlia 3nm Narrowband Sulfur II 1.25" · Antlia Blue Pro · Antlia Green Pro · Antlia Red Pro