This Is The Waxing Gibbous Moon! 🌔🌔🌔

Me when I detect food

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Throwback Thursday!

despite everything, you still love madoka magica  (happy 10th anniversary!!)

This is the Black Eye Galaxy! 🌌🌌🌌

The disk of this galaxy vigorously produces stars with its rapid inflow of mass into the incredibly active black hole at the center. An inner disk produces this galaxy’s distinct dust lane that gives it its name! 🌃🌃🌃

Taken by me (Michelle Park) using the Slooh Canary Two telescope on March 7th, 2021 at 4:53 UTC.

Image of Saturn taken by Cassini spacecraft in October 28, 2016.

Credit: NASA/JPL 

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 Eagle Nebula! 🦅🦅🦅

This young cluster of stars and the distinct Pillars of Creation at the center of the nebula are located in the constellation of Serpens. These stars, which were formed in the HII region of this nebula, are very massive: some of them are up to 1 million solar luminosities! ✨✨✨

Taken by me (Michelle Park) using the Slooh Canary Two telescope on May 9th, 2021 at 00:36 UTC. 

This is the Lobster Nebula! 🦞🦞🦞

Despite this creative name, there were multiple petitions to change this nebula’s name to the Madokami Nebula (named after a character in the anime Madoka Magica) and the War and Peace Nebula (named after its resemblance to a skull and dove). The core of the nebula is the Pismis-24 cluster containing very massive stars up to 100 solar masses each! ✨✨✨

Taken by me (Michelle Park) using the Slooh Canary Two telescope on February 26th, 2021 at 8:32 UTC.

This is the Orion Nebula! ✨✨✨

Thought to be a cosmic fire of creation by the Mayans, the Orion Nebula’s bright, vibrant colors come from the massive stars in the open star cluster at the center of the nebula. This star forming region is giving birth to thousands of stars, each of them only a few million years old! 💫💫💫

Taken by me (Michelle Park) using the Slooh Canary Two telescope on March 21st, 2021 at 22:53 UTC.

Lagoon Nebula, M8, in Sagittarius ❤

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