#nebulae

[lionofchaeronea]

Ever get the feeling you were being watched?

MyCn 18: Engraved Hourglass Nebula ©

[the-wolf-and-moon]

Heart and Soul Nebulae

[easternbluenovellist]

Ima start with a piece I'm very happy with.

Current Hyperfixation is Good Omens, so my personnal journal has to go through GO themed decoration of course!

I make a page for each month, and here is June.

A bit crowded but I spent a good chunk of time on it (most of it being a full afternoon watching Season 2 in the background)

It's watercolours and colour pencils with gold and white gel pens for the details.

Hopes you like it! ❤️

Edit :

I posted some pics of the sketches for this piece for those interested there.

[without-ado]

“We must understand the Cosmos as it is and not confuse how it is with how we wish it to be.”

l all taken by Andrew McCarthy l Carl Sagan

[heartnosekid]

day 11 of @deadboystims’ 300 follower event: a stimboard of space! it was super hard choosing between the ocean and space for me, but space has my whole heart always 💕

🪐-✨-🪐 / ✨-🪐-✨ / 🪐-✨-🪐

[that-one-queer-poc]

imagine you live forever and then die in a violent bloody explosion and your soul is gone but your guts remain eternally where you were until they rot away and then some short lived animals a thousand miles away see your scattered decaying viscera and think it’s the most beautiful thing in existence. don’t you guys love nebulae

[pangeen]

" The heart of the Milky Way, Messier 8 and SNR G007.5-01.7 "

// © Bray Falls

[rainbowpopeworld]

@theangelyouknew inspired me to make some different wallpaper for my phone. Here they are if you’d like to use them too. I just ask that you reblog and let me know if you liked them 💖🌃😇😈

Bonus Good omens behind the scenes wallpaper:

[celestialdaily]

The celestial object of the day is the Water Lily Nebula!

This pre-planetary nebula (the phase before becoming a planetary nebula) has been discovered to have organic hydrocarbons that constitute the base for life!

[thepastisalreadywritten]

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Chandra, named in honor of the late Indian American astrophysicist Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, launched to space aboard the space shuttle Columbia on 23 July 1999.

The crew, including STS-93 Commander Eileen Collins, deployed the telescope into its oval-shaped orbit, which takes Chandra on a path around Earth that is nearly one-third of the distance to the moon.

So far, Chandra has taken nearly 25,000 observations of the universe.

The telescope observes the cosmos through X-ray light, which is invisible to the human eye.

X-rays are released by some of the most energetic events and hottest objects in the universe, including exploded stars, material swirling around black holes, galactic collisions and even exoplanets.

Chandra plays a key role not only as an X-ray telescope but in providing data that pairs with observations from other telescopes.

Combined, all of those wavelengths of light provide a more complete picture that enables astronomers to solve the universe’s lingering mysteries.

24 July 2024

[spacewonder19]

Orion's Belt closeup © Gianni Fardell

[the-wolf-and-moon]

Comet Jacques and The Heart and Soul Nebulae

[brightestofcentaurus]

Orion Nebula

"The dusty side of the Sword of Orion is illuminated in this striking infrared image from the European Space Agency's Hershel Space Observatory. This immense nebula is the closest large region of star formation, situated about 1,500 light years away in the constellation of Orion. The parts that are easily observed in visible light, known alternatively as the Orion Nebula or Messier 42, correspond to the light blue regions. This is the glow from the warmest dust, illuminated by clusters of hot stars that have only recently been born in this chaotic region.

The red spine of material running from corner to corner reveals colder, denser filaments of dust and gas that are scattered throughout the Orion nebula. In visible light this would be a dark, opaque feature, hiding the reservoir of material from which stars have recently formed and will continue to form in the future.

Herschel data from the PACS instrument observations, at wavelengths of 100 and 160 microns, is displayed in blue and green, respectively, while SPIRE 250-micron data is shown in red.

Within the inset image, the emission from ionized carbon atoms (C+), overlaid in yellow, was isolated and mapped out from spectrographic data obtained by the HIFI instrument."

Image and information from NASA.

[johnlyngfr]

The Western Veil Nebula

The Veil Nebula is interstellar debris from a very large star that violently exploded as a supernova about 15,000 years ago. This photo captures the leading shockwave as it continues to expand.

Astronomers call this Supernova Remnant the “Cygnus Loop”, because it is generally circular and viewed in the constellation of Cygnus the Swan. It is nearby at only 2,400 light years, and situated right in our own galactic spiral arm, making our image very crowded with nearby stars.

In this photo, we are looking at the outer edge of the Cygnus Loop debris field that appears facing towards the west. Note the colours: red is hydrogen, blue suggests oxygen, and sulfur is green.

A “Supernova” explosion occurs when an older star depletes fuel and begins to falter at generating a strong stellar wind. As the outward-push falters, gravity causes the aging star to catastrophically implode as a supernova. Indeed, the colours of blue and green suggest the presence of heavier elements, oxygen and sulphur, as formed in the core of older stars.

I photographed the Western Veil Nebula from my garden in Strasbourg France on a single night in August 2024. This is an ensemble of 80 photos, where each was a 3 minute exposure (4 hours of Astrophotography).

More information:

[heartnosekid]

the skull and crossbones nebula ☠️ | art by jjlodge on ig

[xipteras]

Inside Cygnus

Image by @xipteras