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Nikon D7100
Focal Length: 12mm
2015/01/21 23:25:56.7
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Latitude: S 33°37.01' (33°37'0.5")
Longitude: W 69°58.16' (69°58'9.8")
Azimuth: 145º (SE)
Altitude: 2701.00 m
Lens: 12-24mm F/4 G Tokina
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EARTH & SKY Photo taken by Maki Yanagimachi - Location: Lake Tekapo, New Zealand
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An observer at the 2017 OzSky Star Party looking at the LMC with the 150mm Fujinon binocular chair, at the Warrumbungles Motel site in Australia.
EARTH & SKY Photo taken by Igor Hoogerwerf - Location: University of Canterbury Mt John Observatory, Lake Tekapo, New Zealand. For some stunning Earth & Sky time-lapse animations, please refer to Earth & Sky Limited Partnership on You Tube.
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EARTH & SKY Photo taken by Maki Yanagimachi - Location: Mt John University Observatory, Lake Tekapo, New Zealand
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Edited Webb Space Telescope image of the remains of Supernova 1987a in the Large Magellanic Cloud. Color/processing variant.
EARTH & SKY Photo taken by Maki Yanagimachi - Location: Mt John University Observatory, Lake Tekapo, New Zealand
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EARTH & SKY Photo taken by Igor Hoogerwerf - Location: University of Canterbury Mt John Observatory, Lake Tekapo, New Zealand. For some stunning Earth & Sky time-lapse animations, please refer to Earth & Sky Limited Partnership on You Tube.
A Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy to our own Milky Way galaxy. Original from NASA. Digitally enhanced by rawpixel.
The Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy to our own Milky Way galaxy. Original from NASA. Digitally enhanced by rawpixel.
Photo taken by Maki Yanagimachi - Location: Mt John University Observatory, Lake Tekapo, New Zealand
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Nearly 200,000 light-years from Earth, the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way, floats in space, in a long and slow dance around our galaxy. Vast clouds of gas within it slowly collapse to form new stars. In turn, these light up the gas clouds in a riot of colors, visible in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope.
The Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) is ablaze with star-forming regions. From the Tarantula Nebula, the brightest stellar nursery in our cosmic neighborhood, to LHA 120-N 11, part of which is featured in this Hubble image, the small and irregular galaxy is scattered with glowing nebulae, the most noticeable sign that new stars are being born.
Image Credit: ESA/NASA/Hubble
Source: www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_2434.html
EARTH & SKY Photo taken by Maki Yanagimachi - Location: Mt John University Observatory, Lake Tekapo, New Zealand
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EARTH & SKY Photo taken by Maki Yanagimachi - Location: Mt John University Observatory, Lake Tekapo, New Zealand
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EARTH & SKY Photo taken by Maki Yanagimachi - Location: Mt John University Observatory, Lake Tekapo, New Zealand
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R136: Um berçário estelar de proporções gigantescas (100 anos-luz de ponta a ponta) próximo ao núcleo da Grande Nuvem de Magalhães. Não existe em toda a galáxia Via-Láctea, onde moramos, região tão grande e prolífica quanto R136. Algumas destas estrelas, semelhantes à diamantes azuis, chegam a ser 100 vezes mais massivas que nosso sol.
ABOUT THIS IMAGE:
Just in time for the holidays: a Hubble Space Telescope picture postcard of hundreds of brilliant blue stars wreathed by warm, glowing clouds. The festive portrait is the most detailed view of the largest stellar nursery in our local galactic neighborhood.
The massive, young stellar grouping, called R136, is only a few million years old and resides in the 30 Doradus Nebula, a turbulent star-birth region in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), a satellite galaxy of our Milky Way. There is no known star-forming region in our galaxy as large or as prolific as 30 Doradus.
Many of the diamond-like icy blue stars are among the most massive stars known. Several of them are over 100 times more massive than our Sun. These hefty stars are destined to pop off, like a string of firecrackers, as supernovas in a few million years.
The image, taken in ultraviolet, visible, and red light by Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3, spans about 100 light-years. The nebula is close enough to Earth that Hubble can resolve individual stars, giving astronomers important information about the stars' birth and evolution.
The brilliant stars are carving deep cavities in the surrounding material by unleashing a torrent of ultraviolet light, and hurricane-force stellar winds (streams of charged particles), which are etching away the enveloping hydrogen gas cloud in which the stars were born. The image reveals a fantasy landscape of pillars, ridges, and valleys, as well as a dark region in the center that roughly looks like the outline of a holiday tree. Besides sculpting the gaseous terrain, the brilliant stars can also help create a successive generation of offspring. When the winds hit dense walls of gas, they create shocks, which may be generating a new wave of star birth.
The movement of the LMC around the Milky Way may have triggered the massive cluster's formation in several ways. The gravitational tug of the Milky Way and the companion Small Magellanic Cloud may have compressed gas in the LMC. Also, the pressure resulting from the LMC plowing through the Milky Way's halo may have compressed gas in the satellite. The cluster is a rare, nearby example of the many super star clusters that formed in the distant, early universe, when star birth and galaxy interactions were more frequent. Previous Hubble observations have shown astronomers that super star clusters in faraway galaxies are ubiquitous.
The LMC is located 170,000 light-years away and is a member of the Local Group of Galaxies, which also includes the Milky Way.
The Hubble observations were taken Oct. 20-27, 2009. The blue color is light from the hottest, most massive stars; the green from the glow of oxygen; and the red from fluorescing hydrogen.
Via io9 I found this remarkable Hubble shot of Tarantula Nebula, one of the most visible features of our Milky Way Galaxy's satellite galaxy, the Large Magellanic Cloud.
The Tarantula Nebula (also known as 30 Doradus, or NGC 2070) is an H II region in the Large Magellanic Cloud. It was originally thought to be a star [hence the Flamsteed name 30 Doradus], but in 1751 Nicolas Louis de Lacaille recognized its nebular nature.
The Tarantula Nebula has an apparent magnitude of 8. Considering its distance of about 49 kpc(160,000 light years), this is an extremely luminous non-stellar object. Its luminosity is so great that if it were as close to Earth as the Orion Nebula, the Tarantula Nebula would cast shadows. In fact, it is the most active starburst region known in the Local Group of galaxies. It is also the largest such region in the Local Group with an estimated diameter of 200 pc. The nebula resides on the leading edge of the LMC, where ram pressure stripping, and the compression of the interstellar medium likely resulting from this, is at a maximum. At its core lies the compact star cluster R136 (approx diameter 35 light years)[4] that produces most of the energy that makes the nebula visible. The estimated mass of the cluster is 450,000 solar masses, suggesting it will likely become a globular cluster in the future.
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The closest supernova observed since the invention of the telescope, Supernova 1987A, occurred in the outskirts of the Tarantula Nebula.
I also touched on briefly last summer on the discovery of the most massive star to date, blue hypergiant R136a1 with the mass of 265 Sols.
All of this is here.
Objects captured :
The Large Magellanic Cloud
The constellation Centaurus The constellation Crux, the Southern Cross
Alpha Centauri, the nearest star to us but still takes about 4 years to reach travelling at the speed of light
The Jewel Box (NGC4755) star cluster
NGC 3766 star cluster
NGC 5460 star cluster
Omega Centauri (NGC5139) star cluster
The Coalsack dark nebula
Carina Nebula
The Milky Way and beyond
Exposure 15secs to reduce star trail and lens fogging This was the very first time I actually saw and captured the Milky Way.
Note : I used a torch to paint the trees in the foreground during the exposure.
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Photo taken by Maki Yanagimachi - Location: Mt John University Observatory, Lake Tekapo, New Zealand
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EARTH & SKY Photo taken by Maki Yanagimachi - Location: Mt John University Observatory, Lake Tekapo, New Zealand
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A Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy to our own Milky Way galaxy. Original from NASA. Digitally enhanced by rawpixel.
EARTH & SKY Photo taken by Maki Yanagimachi - Location: Mt John University Observatory, Lake Tekapo, New Zealand
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25-sec exposures. Nikon D700 (ISO 2500) & D3 (ISO 3200) + Nikkor 14-24mm f/2.8G lenses.
ALMA under construction, Llano de Chajnantor Observatory, Chile, night of 16/17 June 2010.
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Photo taken by Maki Yanagimachi - Location: Mt John University Observatory, Lake Tekapo, New Zealand
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EARTH & SKY Photo taken by Maki Yanagimachi - Location: Mt John University Observatory, Lake Tekapo, New Zealand
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EARTH & SKY Photo taken by Maki Yanagimachi - Location: Mt John University Observatory, Lake Tekapo, New Zealand
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The Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy to our own Milky Way galaxy. Original from NASA. Digitally enhanced by rawpixel.
Photo taken by Maki Yanagimachi - Location: Mt John University Observatory, Lake Tekapo, New Zealand
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Edited (probably from the Deep Sky Survey) image of part of the Large Magellanic Cloud and the Tarantula Nebula.
Original caption: This ground-based view of the Tarantula Nebula shows the nebula in its entirety. It is the brightest region of star formation in the local Universe. Hubble’s field of view covers just a tiny spot in the upper-right quadrant of this image, though it reveals detail invisible here, including a supernova remnant.
EARTH & SKY Photo taken by Maki Yanagimachi - Location: Mt John University Observatory, Lake Tekapo, New Zealand
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20 x 5 sec subs @ 1600 ISO, 85mm, f/1.6 on the 5DmkII + tripod
50 bias, 20 Darks, 20 Flats
Calibrated, registered, stacked with PixInsight, colors/saturation with Photoshop CS5
EARTH & SKY Photo taken by Maki Yanagimachi - Location: Mt John University Observatory, Lake Tekapo, New Zealand
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ESO image of two nebula, NGC 2020 on the left and NGC 2014 on the right, in the Large Magellanic Cloud, an irregular satellite galaxy of the Milky Way.
EARTH & SKY Photo taken by Maki Yanagimachi - Location: Mt John University Observatory, Lake Tekapo, New Zealand
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EARTH & SKY Photo taken by David Weir - Location: Mt John University Observatory, Lake Tekapo, New Zealand
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The brightly glowing plumes seen in this image are reminiscent of an underwater scene, with turquoise-tinted currents and nebulous strands reaching out into the surroundings. However, this is no ocean. This image actually shows part of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), a small nearby galaxy that orbits our galaxy, the Milky Way, and appears as a blurred blob in our skies. The NASA/European Space Agency (ESA) Hubble Space Telescope has peeked many times into this galaxy, releasing stunning images of the whirling clouds of gas and sparkling stars (opo9944a, heic1301, potw1408a). This image shows part of the Tarantula Nebula's outskirts. This famously beautiful nebula, located within the LMC, is a frequent target for Hubble (heic1206, heic1402). In most images of the LMC the color is completely different to that seen here. This is because, in this new image, a different set of filters was used. The customary R filter, which selects the red light, was replaced by a filter letting through the near-infrared light. In traditional images, the hydrogen gas appears pink because it shines most brightly in the red. Here however, other less prominent emission lines dominate in the blue and green filters. This data is part of the Archival Pure Parallel Project (APPP), a project that gathered together and processed over 1,000 images taken using Hubble’s Wide Field Planetary Camera 2, obtained in parallel with other Hubble instruments. Much of the data in the project could be used to study a wide range of astronomical topics, including gravitational lensing and cosmic shear, exploring distant star-forming galaxies, supplementing observations in other wavelength ranges with optical data, and examining star populations from stellar heavyweights all the way down to solar-mass stars. Image Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA: acknowledgement: Josh Barrington Text: European Space Agency via NASA ift.tt/1t8fEdr
Photo taken by Maki Yanagimachi - Location: Mt John University Observatory, Lake Tekapo, New Zealand
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EARTH & SKY Photo taken by David Weir - Location: Mt John University Observatory, Lake Tekapo, New Zealand
Photo taken by Maki Yanagimachi - Location: Mt John University Observatory, Lake Tekapo, New Zealand
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Edited Hubble Space Telescope image of the globular cluster NGC 1466 in one of the Milky Way's satellite galaxies, the Large Magellanic Cloud. Color/processing variant.
Original caption: This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope reveals an ancient, glimmering ball of stars called NGC 1466. It is a globular cluster — a gathering of stars all held together by gravity — that is slowly moving through space on the outskirts of the Large Magellanic Cloud, one of our closest galactic neighbours. NGC 1466 certainly is one for extremes. It has a mass equivalent to roughly 140 000 Suns and an age of around 13.1 billion years, making it almost as old as the Universe itself. This fossil-like relic from the early Universe lies some 160 000 light-years away from us. Nestled within this ancient time capsule are 49 known RR Lyrae variable stars, which are indispensable tools for measuring distances in the Universe. These variable stars have well-defined luminosities, meaning that astronomers know the total amount of energy they emit. By comparing this known luminosity to how bright the stars appear in the sky, their distance can be easily calculated. Astronomical objects such as this are known as standard candles, and are fundamental to the so-called cosmic distance ladder.
EARTH & SKY Photo taken by Maki Yanagimachi - Location: Mt John University Observatory, Lake Tekapo, New Zealand
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Photo taken by Maki Yanagimachi - Location: Mt John University Observatory, Lake Tekapo, New Zealand
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EARTH & SKY Photo taken by Maki Yanagimachi - Location: Mt John University Observatory, Lake Tekapo, New Zealand
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Photo taken by Maki Yanagimachi - Location: Mt John University Observatory, Lake Tekapo, New Zealand
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EARTH & SKY Photo taken by Maki Yanagimachi - Location: Mt John University Observatory, Lake Tekapo, New Zealand
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