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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 Igor Hoogerwerf - Location: University of Canterbury Mt John Observatory, Lake Tekapo, New Zealand
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Photo taken by Maki Yanagimachi - Location: Mt John University Observatory, Lake Tekapo, New Zealand
Please refer to MakiTKP on You Tube for some stunning time-lapse animations.
Photo taken by Maki Yanagimachi - Location: Mt John University Observatory, Lake Tekapo, New Zealand
Please refer to MakiTKP on You Tube for some stunning time-lapse animations.
Photo taken by Maki Yanagimachi - Location: Mt John University Observatory, Lake Tekapo, New Zealand
Please refer to MakiTKP on You Tube for some stunning time-lapse animations.
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
EARTH & SKY Photo taken by Maki Yanagimachi - Location: Mt John University Observatory, Lake Tekapo, New Zealand
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Earlier in the week, I lamented about the lack of stars in the night sky. For anyone who has never looked at the night sky when they’ve gone out of the city, this is what you’re missing out on.
The “cloud” in the the upper left corner is the Milky Way, the galaxy in which Earth is. The two smaller clouds are the Magellanic Clouds, two dwarf galaxies usually invisible in the city night sky.
All the light in this photo was from starlight. The moon wasn’t even out.
Edited Webb Space Telescope image of the H II region in the Large Magellanic Cloud named N79. Color/processing variant.
Original caption: This image from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope features an H II region in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), a satellite galaxy of our Milky Way galaxy. This nebula, known as N79, is a region of interstellar atomic hydrogen that is ionised and is captured here by Webb’s Mid-InfraRed Instrument (MIRI). N79 is a massive star-forming complex spanning roughly 1630 light-years in the generally unexplored southwest region of the LMC. N79 is typically regarded as a younger version of 30 Doradus (also known as the Tarantula Nebula), another of Webb’s recent targets. Research suggests that N79 has a star formation efficiency exceeding that of 30 Doradus by a factor of two over the past 500 000 years. This particular image centres on one of the three giant molecular cloud complexes, dubbed N79 South (S1 for short). The distinct ‘starburst’ pattern surrounding this bright object is a series of diffraction spikes. All telescopes which use a mirror to collect light, as Webb does, have this form of artifact which arises from the design of the telescope. In Webb's case, the six large starburst spikes appear because of the hexagonal symmetry of Webb's 18 primary mirror segments. Patterns like these are only noticeable around very bright, compact objects, where all the light comes from the same place. Most galaxies, even though they appear very small to our eyes, are darker and more spread out than a single star, and therefore don't show this pattern. At the longer wavelengths of light captured by MIRI, Webb’s view of N79 showcases the region’s glowing gas and dust. This is because mid-infrared light is able to reveal what is happening deeper inside the clouds (while shorter wavelengths of light would be absorbed or scattered by dust grains in the nebula). Some still-embedded protostars also appear in this field. Star-forming regions such as this are of interest to astronomers because their chemical composition is similar to that of the gigantic star-forming regions observed when the Universe was only a few billion years old and star formation was at its peak. Star-forming regions in our Milky Way galaxy are not producing stars at the same furious rate as N79, and have a different chemical composition. Webb is now providing astronomers the opportunity to compare and contrast observations of star formation in N79 with the telescope’s deep observations of distant galaxies in the early Universe. These observations of N79 are part of a Webb programme that is studying the evolution of the circumstellar discs and envelopes of forming stars over a wide range in mass and at different evolutionary stages. Webb’s sensitivity will enable scientists to detect for the first time the planet-forming dust discs around stars of similar mass to that of our Sun at the distance of the LMC. This image includes 7.7-micron light shown in blue, 10 microns in cyan, 15 microns in yellow, and 21 microns in red (770W, 1000W, 1500W, and 2100W filters, respectively). [Image description: A bright young star within a colourful nebula. The star is identifiable as the brightest spot in the image, surrounded by six large spokes of light that cross the image. A number of other bright spots can also be seen in the clouds, which are shown in great detail as layers of colourful wisps.] Links S1 LMC N79 (cropped)
Photo taken by Maki Yanagimachi - Location: Mt John University Observatory, Lake Tekapo, New Zealand
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x5 RAW 30sec exposures stacked. The Small Magellanic Cloud is also visible as a bright blob bellow the streak from a satelite. 6400 ISO on a D300 hence the noise. Will try on a D7000 which has better high ISO performance.
Photo taken of the Mikly way and Large Magellanic Cloud. The line in photo is something that was going across the sky that was not visable to the naked eye so not sure what it was
DARK SKY PROJECT Photo taken by Igor Hoogerwerf - Location: University of Canterbury Mt John Observatory, Lake Tekapo, New Zealand. For some stunning Dark Sky Project time-lapse animations, please refer to Dark Sky Project on You Tube.
Edited European Southern Observatory image of a star forming region in the Large Magellanic Cloud. Color/processing variant.
Original caption: This dazzling region of newly-forming stars in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) was captured by the Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope. The relatively small amount of dust in the LMC and MUSE’s acute vision allowed intricate details of the region to be picked out in visible light.
Edited map of the stars of the Milky Way from Gaia data (original map created by ESA). Inverted grayscale variant.
Original caption: Gaia, operated by the European Space Agency (ESA), surveys the sky from Earth orbit to create the largest, most precise, three-dimensional map of our Galaxy. One year ago, the Gaia mission produced its much-awaited second data release, which included high-precision measurements — positions, distance and proper motions — of more than one billion stars in our Milky Way galaxy. This catalogue has enabled transformational studies in many fields of astronomy, addressing the structure, origin and evolution the Milky Way and generating more than 1700 scientific publications since its launch in 2013.
This image shows Gaia's all-sky view of the Milky Way based on measurements of almost 1.7 billion stars.
Horizontally oriented overview.
The yellow ones are the Milky Way Galaxy and its satellites; the green ones are the Andromeda Galaxy (M31) and its satellites; the blue pair are the Triangulum Galaxy (M33) and its possible satellite; and the red/orange ones are miscellaneous Local Group galaxies that are not believed to be bound to any of the three spirals.
Photo taken by Maki Yanagimachi - Location: Mt John University Observatory, Lake Tekapo, New Zealand
Please refer to MakiTKP on You Tube for some stunning time-lapse animations.
Edited Hubble Space Telescope image of the star cluster R136 in the Tarantula Nebula in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way.
The image shows the central region of the Tarantula Nebula in the Large Magellanic Cloud. The young and dense star cluster R136 can be seen at the lower right of the image. This cluster contains hundreds of young blue stars, among them the most massive star detected in the Universe so far. Using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope astronomers were able to study the central and most dense region of this cluster in detail. Here they found nine stars with more than 100 solar masses.
The Lights of Dubbo Illuminating the horizon. With the star Canopus and the Large Magellanic Cloud visible.
Edited TESS PR image of first light (or, more accurately, first released images) view. TESS is a satellite designed to search for planets. This is a set of strips of images showing what the camera saw (mainly stars and the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds (satellite galaxies of the Milky Way)).
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Original caption: NASA’s newest planet hunter, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), is now providing valuable data to help scientists discover and study exciting new exoplanets, or planets beyond our solar system. Part of the data from TESS’ initial science orbit includes a detailed picture of the southern sky taken with all four of the spacecraft’s wide-field cameras. This “first light” science image captures a wealth of stars and other objects, including systems previously known to have exoplanets.
“In a sea of stars brimming with new worlds, TESS is casting a wide net and will haul in a bounty of promising planets for further study,” said Paul Hertz, astrophysics division director at NASA Headquarters in Washington. “This first light science image shows the capabilities of TESS’ cameras, and shows that the mission will realize its incredible potential in our search for another Earth.”
TESS acquired the image using all four cameras during a 30-minute period on Tuesday, Aug. 7. The black lines in the image are gaps between the camera detectors. The images include parts of a dozen constellations, from Capricornus to Pictor, and both the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds, the galaxies nearest to our own. The small bright dot above the Small Magellanic Cloud is a globular cluster — a spherical collection of hundreds of thousands of stars — called NGC 104, also known as 47 Tucanae because of its location in the southern constellation Tucana, the Toucan. Two stars, Beta Gruis and R Doradus, are so bright they saturate an entire column of pixels on the detectors of TESS’s second and fourth cameras, creating long spikes of light.
“This swath of the sky’s southern hemisphere includes more than a dozen stars we know have transiting planets based on previous studies from ground observatories,” said George Ricker, TESS principal investigator at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s (MIT) Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research in Cambridge.
Vertically oriented overview.
The yellow ones are the Milky Way Galaxy and its satellites; the green ones are the Andromeda Galaxy (M31) and its satellites; the blue pair are the Triangulum Galaxy (M33) and its possible satellite; and the red/orange ones are miscellaneous Local Group galaxies that are not believed to be bound to any of the three spirals.
Milky Way (mostly buried) and its crowd of satellite galaxies. The green ones in the background are associated with our sister galaxy, Andromeda.
Closer-ups of the Small and Large Magellanic Clouds, satellite galaxies of our own Milky Way. Next to the Small Magellanic Cloud is the globular cluster 47 Tucanae, a ball of 10,000 stars about 13,000 light-years away from us. (JPOD 218) #photoaday #pictureaday #astrophotography #valledeelqui #rutadelasestrellas #vicuñachile #largemagellaniccloud #smallmagellaniccloud #47tucanae #magellanicclouds
Another 30 seconds from outside the four meter. You can see the globular cluster 47 Tuc just below the SMC, which I could barely make out with my naked eye
EARTH & SKY Photo taken by Maki Yanagimachi - Location: Church of the Good Shepherd, Lake Tekapo, New Zealand
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Photo taken by Maki Yanagimachi - Location: Mt John University Observatory, Lake Tekapo, New Zealand
Please refer to MakiTKP on You Tube for some stunning time-lapse animations.
Iâve posted photos of the Magellanic Clouds a few times over the past year or so. Every time I feature them in a post I get comments from northern hemisphere people about how beautiful they are and how much theyâd love to see them. Sometimes I get comments from southern hemisphere people along the lines of âso thatâs what those white blobs were!â
Wherever youâre from I hope that you find these two little companion galaxies of our Milky Way to be as alluring and fascinating as I do. Set in the sky here by the old, dead tree in the foreground I think they look extra lovely. In case youâre wondering how I lit up the tree, the answer is that I didnât. I waited until cars were approaching on the road behind me and let the overspill from their headlights do the work.
Shot with Canon EOS 6D, Samyang 14mm lens @ f/4.0, 25 sec @ ISO 6400.
Photo taken by Maki Yanagimachi - Location: Mt John University Observatory, Lake Tekapo, New Zealand
Please refer to MakiTKP on You Tube for some stunning time-lapse animations.
Edited map of the stars of the Milky Way from Gaia data (original map created by ESA). Inverted color variant.
Original caption: Gaia, operated by the European Space Agency (ESA), surveys the sky from Earth orbit to create the largest, most precise, three-dimensional map of our Galaxy. One year ago, the Gaia mission produced its much-awaited second data release, which included high-precision measurements — positions, distance and proper motions — of more than one billion stars in our Milky Way galaxy. This catalogue has enabled transformational studies in many fields of astronomy, addressing the structure, origin and evolution the Milky Way and generating more than 1700 scientific publications since its launch in 2013.
This image shows Gaia's all-sky view of the Milky Way based on measurements of almost 1.7 billion stars.
Edited map of the stars of the Milky Way from Gaia data (original map created by ESA). Color/processing variant.
Original caption: Gaia, operated by the European Space Agency (ESA), surveys the sky from Earth orbit to create the largest, most precise, three-dimensional map of our Galaxy. One year ago, the Gaia mission produced its much-awaited second data release, which included high-precision measurements — positions, distance and proper motions — of more than one billion stars in our Milky Way galaxy. This catalogue has enabled transformational studies in many fields of astronomy, addressing the structure, origin and evolution the Milky Way and generating more than 1700 scientific publications since its launch in 2013.
This image shows Gaia's all-sky view of the Milky Way based on measurements of almost 1.7 billion stars.
Photo taken by Maki Yanagimachi - Location: Mt John University Observatory, Lake Tekapo, New Zealand
Please refer to MakiTKP on You Tube for some stunning time-lapse animations.
EARTH & SKY Photo taken by Maki Yanagimachi - Location: Mt John University Observatory, Lake Tekapo, New Zealand
For some stunning Earth & Sky time-lapse animations, please refer to MakiTKP on You Tube.
Photo taken by Maki Yanagimachi - Location: Mt John University Observatory, Lake Tekapo, New Zealand
Please refer to MakiTKP on You Tube for some stunning time-lapse animations.
Photo taken by Maki Yanagimachi - Location: Mt John University Observatory, Lake Tekapo, New Zealand
Please refer to MakiTKP on You Tube for some stunning time-lapse animations.
Photo taken by Maki Yanagimachi - Location: Mt John University Observatory, Lake Tekapo, New Zealand
Please refer to MakiTKP on You Tube for some stunning time-lapse animations.
Andromeda Galaxy (M31) and its satellite galaxies (green), Triangulum Galaxy (M33) and its possible satellite (blue), Milky Way Galaxy and its satellites (yellow), and Local Group galaxies not believed to be bound to any of the three spirals (red/orange).
Edited European Southern Observatory montage of highlights of interesting objects in the Large Magellanic Cloud.
Original caption: These cutouts highlight some of the most spectacular regions in the Large Magellanic Cloud, which is one of our closest galactic neighbours. The image was taken with the VISTA telescope at ESO's Paranal Observatory.
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 1.usa.gov/124hVLn
Photo taken by Maki Yanagimachi - Location: Lake Tekapo, New Zealand
For some stunning Earth & Sky time-lapse animations, please refer to MakiTKP on You Tube.
Edited Hubble Space Telescope image of the globular cluster NGC 2108. Color/processing variant.
Original caption: This Picture of the Week shows the colourful globular cluster NGC 2108. The cluster is nestled within the Large Magellanic Cloud, in the constellation of the Swordfish (Dorado). It was discovered in 1835 by the astronomer, mathematician, chemist and inventor John Herschel, son of the famous William Herschel. The most striking feature of this globular cluster is the gleaming ruby-red spot at the centre left of the image. What looks like the cluster’s watchful eye is actually a carbon star. Carbon stars are almost always cool red giants, with atmospheres containing more carbon than oxygen — the opposite to our Sun. Carbon monoxide forms in the outer layer of the star through a combination of these elements, until there is no more oxygen available. Carbon atoms are then free to form a variety of other carbon compounds, such as C2, CH, CN, C3 and SiC2, which scatter blue light within the star, allowing red light to pass through undisturbed. This image was captured by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope’s Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) in 2016, using three different filters.
Edited Hubble Space Telescope image of the globular cluster NGC 1466 in one of the Milky Way's satellite galaxies, the Large Magellanic Cloud. Inverted grayscale 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.
Photo taken by Maki Yanagimachi - Location: Mt John University Observatory, Lake Tekapo, New Zealand
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Edited multi-observatory image (Hubble Space Telescope, Chandra Space Telescope, and ALMA) of the ring around the remnants of Supernova 1987A. Inverted grayscale variant.
Original caption: Astronomers combined observations from three different observatories to produce this multiwavelength image of the remnants of SN 1987A. The red colour shows newly formed dust in the centre of the supernova remnant, taken at submillimeter wavelengths by the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) telescope in Chile. The green represents the glow of visible light, captured by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. The blue color reveals the hottest gas and is based on data from NASA’s Chandra X-Ray observatory. The green and blue hues reveal where the expanding shock wave from the explosion is colliding with a ring of material around the supernova. This ring was initially illuminated by the ultraviolet flash from the explosion, but over the past few years the ring material has brightened considerably as it collides with the expanding shock wave.
The Large and Small Magellanic clouds, actually small companion galaxies of our Milky Way, photographed through the aurora australis from Invercargill in New Zealand
Photo taken by Maki Yanagimachi - Location: Mt John University Observatory, Lake Tekapo, New Zealand
Please refer to MakiTKP on You Tube for some stunning time-lapse animations.
EARTH & SKY Photo taken by Maki Yanagimachi - Location: Lake Tekapo, New Zealand.
Please refer to MakiTKP on You Tube for some stunning time-lapse animations.
Found it immediately in the sky this time (see the photo below to read how I accidentally saw the MCs for the first time in 2007), but seeing wasn't as good. It was much warmer this time, and Perito Moreno has a lot more dust in the air than El Chaltén.
I have a bunch of frames.... if I ever get a usable install of Windows again, I'll try running them through DeepSkyStacker.
Edited Hubble Space Telescope image of a region rich with nebulae in the Large Magellanic Cloud. Kaleidoscopic version.
Original caption: This shot from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows a maelstrom of glowing gas and dark dust within one of the Milky Way’s satellite galaxies, the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). This stormy scene shows a stellar nursery known as N159, an HII region over 150 light-years across. N159 contains many hot young stars. These stars are emitting intense ultraviolet light, which causes nearby hydrogen gas to glow, and torrential stellar winds, which are carving out ridges, arcs, and filaments from the surrounding material. At the heart of this cosmic cloud lies the Papillon Nebula, a butterfly-shaped region of nebulosity. This small, dense object is classified as a High-Excitation Blob, and is thought to be tightly linked to the early stages of massive star formation. N159 is located over 160 000 light-years away. It resides just south of the Tarantula Nebula (heic1402), another massive star-forming complex within the LMC. It was previously imaged by Hubble’s Wide Field Planetary Camera 2, which also resolved the Papillon Nebula for the first time.