This Is The Pleiades! 💫💫💫

14.01.2021 — looking forward to the next semester! i’ve signed up for cs1 and although i have some cs experience outside of school, i’ve never taken an actual cs class before so i’m curious how it’ll go.

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!

Thank you so much for all the support for my astrophotography blog! I just wanted to let you guys know that I have started a project and a blog about light pollution.

As an avid astrophotographer, light pollution has affected me in a variety of ways - most notably by messing up my pictures 😂

I attached the Project DeLight link to this post. I’m also gathering data about outdoor light features across the world: https://forms.gle/UER8BtStqWktf2kn6 - the form will only take about 1-2 minutes and I’ve already posted about the first batch of data in the DeLight blog. 

Thank you everyone!

Michelle Park

Lagoon Nebula, M8, in Sagittarius ❤

Taken by me (Michelle Park) using the Slooh Canary Two Telescope, taken in August 2018.

Heat of Memories

This is the Eta Carinae Nebula! ♥✨🔥

The Eta Carinae nebula is one of the largest diffuse nebulae in our night sky, being almost 4 times larger than the Orion Nebula. The picture above only is a small part of the Eta Carinae Nebula - this section is called the Keyhole Nebula and it has a lot of dark gas and its shape has changed drastically due to nearby ionizing radiation! 🔑✨🔑✨🔑✨

Taken by me (Michelle Park) using the Slooh Chile One telescope on December 7th, 2020 at 7:23 UTC.

am supposed to write a few lines so people at uni can ~gET tO knOw Me~ and the pressure is. on.

like do i make myself look cool to get some friends or do i tell them about the loser i really am??

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)

This is Mirach’s Ghost! 👻👻👻

This spooky image has 2 beautiful objects of interest: Mirach’s Ghost (the fuzzy galaxy on the top right) and Mirach (the bright red giant star in the center). The star is a mere 200 light years away while the galaxy is at a whopping 10 million light years away! 🎃🎃🎃

Taken by me (Michelle Park) using the Slooh Canary Three telescope on October 29th, 2021 at 3:26 UTC.