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This is Comet PanSTARRS! 🌠🌠🌠

This gif was created throughout the night of July 25th and you can see the potentially interstellar comet in motion. 

Taken by me (Michelle Park) using the Slooh Canary One telescope on July 25th, 2022.

This is the Lagoon Nebula! 💗💗💗

The beautiful lagoon shaped portion is created from aggressive stellar winds pushing the nebulae’s gas and dust aside. Many of the stars here are young, hot O-type stars that are more than 200,000 times brighter than the Sun! ✨✨✨

Taken by me (Michelle Park) using the Slooh Canary Two telescope on July 23rd, 2022 at 22:31 UTC. 

This is Comet Pan-STARRS! 🌠🌠🌠

This comet took millions of years to arrive from the Oort Cloud. Its unusual brightness, which allowed it to be visible even in 2013, and its hyperbolic orbit show that the comet could potentially have interstellar origins! 💫💫💫

Taken by me (Michelle Park) using the Slooh Canary Two telescope on July 21st, 2022. 

This is the Trifid Nebula! ✨✨✨

At the center of this nebula is a group of bright newborn stars that are releasing streams of radiation and sculpting the nebula’s shape. Located next to the famous Lagoon Nebula, the Trifid Nebula is a common target for astrophotographers due to its vibrant colors and high visibility! 💖💖💖

Taken by me (Michelle Park) using the Slooh Canary Two telescope on June 3rd, 2022 at 1:17 UTC. 

This is the Lunar Eclipse of May 15th, 2022! 💖💖💖

As the Earth’s shadow covers the Moon, it appears to disappear into darkness. This is just one of 85 lunar eclipses that will occur in the 21st century. If you missed this one, don’t worry! The next total lunar eclipse will occur on November 8th, 2022. 🌑🌛✨

Taken by me (Michelle Park) using the Slooh Canary One telescope on May 15th, 2022. 

This is the Lunar Eclipse of May 15th, 2022! 💖💖💖

As the Earth’s shadow covers the Moon, it appears to disappear into darkness. This is just one of 85 lunar eclipses that will occur in the 21st century. If you missed this one, don’t worry! The next total lunar eclipse will occur on November 8th, 2022. 🌑🌛✨

Taken by me (Michelle Park) using the Slooh Canary One telescope on May 15th, 2022. 

2022 May 15

Colors of the Moon Image Credit & Copyright: Marcella Giulia Pace

Explanation: What color is the Moon? It depends on the night. Outside of the Earth’s atmosphere, the dark Moon, which shines by reflected sunlight, appears a magnificently brown-tinged gray. Viewed from inside the Earth’s atmosphere, though, the moon can appear quite different. The featured image highlights a collection of apparent colors of the full moon documented by one astrophotographer over 10 years from different locations across Italy. A red or yellow colored moon usually indicates a moon seen near the horizon. There, some of the blue light has been scattered away by a long path through the Earth’s atmosphere, sometimes laden with fine dust. A blue-colored moon is more rare and can indicate a moon seen through an atmosphere carrying larger dust particles. What created the purple moon is unclear – it may be a combination of several effects. The last image captures the total lunar eclipse of 2018 July – where the moon, in Earth’s shadow, appeared a faint red – due to light refracted through air around the Earth. Today there is not only another full moon but a total lunar eclipse visible to observers in North and South America – an occurrence that may lead to some unexpected lunar colorings.

∞ Source: apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap220515.html

This is the Triangulum Galaxy! 🌌🌌🌌

Despite being a spiral galaxy, the Triangulum Galaxy has very little star formation as shown through infrared observations from the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE). However, a region known as NGC 604 is the largest stellar nursery between itself, the Milky Way, and the Andromeda Galaxy! 🔥🔥🔥

Taken by me (Michelle Park) using the Slooh Chile One telescope on March 8th, 2022 at 20:17 UTC.

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This is Ceres! 🌠🌠🌠

Ceres is the only dwarf planet in our inner solar system and the largest object within the Asteroid Belt. Water vapor is being released from the dwarf planet, resulting in Ceres losing 6kg of its mass per second through steam! 🌊🌊🌊

Taken by me (Michelle Park) using the Slooh Canary Two telescope on March 7th, 2022 at 20:11 UTC. 

This is the Heart Nebula! 💖💖💖

Happy Valentine’s Day! To celebrate this occasion, here is the beautiful Heart Nebula, an emission nebula with dark dust lanes and glowing red hydrogen gas. The heart shape of the nebula is driven by stellar winds from the hot stars inside, some of which have masses up to 50 times the Sun! 💕💕💕

Taken by me (Michelle Park) using the Slooh Canary Two telescope on February 7th, 2022 at 21:13 UTC. 

This is the Running Chicken Nebula! 🐤🐤🐤

This nebula’s unique name comes from the shape of its brightest region being similar to a running chicken. In the upper right corner, you can see the bright star Lambda Centauri, which gives this nebula a second name: the Lambda Centauri Nebula! 💫💫💫

Taken by me (Michelle Park) using the Slooh Canary Two telescope on February 5th, 2022 at 3:22 UTC. 

This is the Trifid Nebula! 💞💞💞

This nebula’s unique name comes from the 3 dark bands of dust that traverse its center. Despite the nebula itself holding many massive stars, it is no longer undergoing star formation because these highly radiative stars have blown a lot of the dust away! 💫💫💫

Taken by me (Michelle Park) using the Slooh Canary Two telescope on February 5th, 2022 at 8:37 UTC.

This is the Eta Carinae Nebula! ✨✨✨

Due to its eruption in the 1840s, the mass of this stunning nebula has been challenging to measure. The colorful dust also dims the star’s ultraviolet and visible light by reradiating the shorter, more energetic light through longer wavelengths like infrared light! ❤❤❤

Taken by me (Michelle Park) using the Slooh Canary Two telescope on February 1st, 2022 at 5:32 UTC. 

This is the Orion Nebula! ✨✨✨

Recent observations by the Hubble Space Telescope reveal the presence of protoplanetary disks, or proplyds, in the Orion Nebula. Newborn stars form in this beautiful nebula when clumps of hydrogen gas condense and become hot enough for stellar fusion! 💥💥💥

Taken by me (Michelle Park) using the Slooh Canary Two telescope on January 20th, 2022 at 3:22 UTC.

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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.

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This is the Crescent Nebula! 🌙🌙🌙

Happy Valentine’s Day! To celebrate, here is a ❤red❤ emission nebula: its color is created by energized hydrogen. This nebula was formed by a young Wolf-Rayet star blowing stellar wind and when the star became a red giant, it energized the wind! 💫💫💫

Taken by me (Michelle Park) on February 14th, 2021 at 6:51 UTC using the Slooh Canary Two telescope.

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This is Haley’s Coronet! 👑👑👑

The interaction between the larger spiral galaxy and its dwarf galaxy have created plumes of dust around the duo. The process of the larger galaxy eating the smaller one is actually called galactic cannibalism (spooky)! 👻👻👻

Taken by me (Michelle Park) using the Slooh Chile Two telescope on January 13th, 2021 at 3:18 UTC.

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This is the Cat’s Paw Nebula! 🐾🐾🐾

This nebula is glowing due to the interactions between its hot stars and large molecules known as polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons. This makes it particularly bright in the infrared and a common target for astrophotography in the Milky Way galaxy! 🔭🔭🔭

Taken by me (Michelle Park) using the Slooh Chile Two telescope on March 7th, 2021 at 6:38 UTC.

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This is Vega! ✨✨✨

This is the brightest star in the summer constellation Lyra and the 5th brightest star in the night sky. Infrared observations have confirmed a circumstellar disk of dust around this star, similar to the Kuiper Belt around the solar system! 🌃🌃🌃

Taken by me (Michelle Park) using the Slooh Canary Two telescope on July 5th, 2021 at 22:26 UTC. 

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This is the Flame Nebula! 🔥🔥🔥

The vibrant clumps of gas in this nebula are assumed to be proplyds, which are disks of gas around young stars that may form planets. This appears to be common all throughout the Orion Molecular Cloud Complex, which not only includes the Flame Nebula but also other famous nebulae like the Horsehead Nebula and the Orion Nebula! ✨✨✨

Taken by me (Michelle Park) using the Slooh Chile Two telescope on November 23rd, 2021 at 1:58 UTC.  

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.

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. 

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.

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This is the Dumbbell Nebula! ⏳⏳⏳

Similar to many other planetary nebulae, the Dumbbell Nebula has a pattern of dark and bright knots made of gas and dust. These beautiful, ornate features are formed when stellar winds don’t fully blow away the nebula’s material and they leave a trail behind! 💘💘💘

Taken by me (Michelle Park) using the Slooh Canary Two telescope on October 17th, 2021 at 00:00 UTC. 

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This is the Waxing Gibbous Moon! 🌔🌔🌔

Yesterday, October 16th, was International Observe the Moon Night, which meant that Slooh’s telescopes were pointed at the beautiful Moon! Check out more resources to celebrate this exciting day here: https://www.space.com/international-observe-the-moon-night-2021 🤩🤩🤩

Taken by me (Michelle Park) using the Slooh Canary One telescope on October 16th, 2021 at 23:32 UTC.

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