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This is Comet Leonard! 🌠🌠🌠

This beautiful comet is making its closest approach to Earth today, almost a year after it was first discovered by astronomer Greg Leonard. After this approach, the comet will be ejected out of the Solar System forever! ✨✨✨

Taken by me (Michelle Park) using the Slooh Chile Two telescope on January 3rd, 2022 at 1:07 UTC. 

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Christmas Day Eclipse: How To Watch The ‘Ring of Fire’ Eclipse Online, The Decade’s Final Astro Gift

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Christmas Day Eclipse: How To Watch The ‘Ring of Fire’ Eclipse Online, The Decade’s Final Astro Gift

QINGDAO, CHINA – JANUARY 15: (CHINA OUT) The Annular Solar Eclipse occurs on January 15, 2010 in … [+] Qingdao, Shandong Province of China. The eclipse, which first became visible in Tamil Nadu city of Kanyakumari, is predicted to be the longest of its kind for the next 1000 years. (Photo by Visual China Group via Getty Images)

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Fancy watching a dramatic solar eclipse to round-off Christmas Day?

For sky-watchers, space fans and nature-lovers across the world, it’s two Christmases in one this year as a rare annular solar eclipse strikes the Middle East and Asia—and you can watch it all online.

Annular eclipse, An annular eclipse occurs when the Moon appears smaller than the Sun and leaves a … [+] ring of the solar disk showing. In this type of eclipse, the Moon is at its farthest point from Earth. (Photo by: QAI Publishing/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

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What is an annular solar eclipse?

An annular solar eclipse occurs when a New Moon is furthest from the Earth on its elliptical orbit, and on Christmas Day it will appear about one percent smaller in the sky. It can’t fully eclipse the Sun, and instead observers see a “ring of fire” or “ring of light” around the Moon. It’s essentially a pretty partial solar eclipse, and at all times observers need to wear protective solar eclipse glasses. 

The path of annularity for the annular solar eclipse, which happens on Dec. 26 locally, but on Dec. … [+] 25 North America time.

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Where is the Christmas Day ‘Ring of Fire’ solar eclipse?

It’s happening along a path that’s 118 kilometres wide. It will be visible from Saudi Arabia—where the sun will rise as a “ring of fire”—Qatar, the UAE, Oman, southern India, northern Sri Lanka, the Indian Ocean, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, the Philippines and Guam, where the sun will set as a ring of fire. A partial solar eclipse will be visible across the Middle East, south-east Asia and Australia. 

In this composite of five images, the moon appears to cover the sun during an annular eclipse of the … [+] sun May 20, 2012 as seen from the Pueblo Bonito ancient building at Chaco Culture National Historical Park in Nageezi, Arizona. AFP PHOTO/Stan HONDA (Photo credit should read STAN HONDA/AFP/GettyImages)

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When is the Christmas Day ‘Ring of Fire’ solar eclipse?

A partial solar eclipse officially begins at 2:29 a.m. Universal Co-ordinated Time (UTC), though the “action” begins at 3:43 a.m. UTC as the sun rises as an annular solar eclipse in Saudi Arabia (at 6:43 a.m. local time). That’s the key sight for eclipse-chasers, and that’s what you want to try to see online. The “ring of fire” will last for 2 minutes 50 seconds in Saudi Arabia, but after its appearance at sunrise it will appear as a ring of fire across the world for a few minutes across the next three and a half hours. 

That converts to these times (you can convert for your location here): 

New York: 10:43 p.m. EST on Christmas Day (December 25, 2019) through 2:01 a.m. on Boxing Day (December 26, 2019)

Los Angeles: 7:43 p.m. through 11:01 p.m. PST on Christmas Day (December 25, 2019) 

London: 3:43 a.m. through 7:01 a.m. GMT on Boxing Day (December 26, 2019)

Where to stream the Christmas Day ‘Ring of Fire’ solar eclipse?

Although NASA doesn’t appear to have plans to cover this annular solar eclipse, there are a few live feeds on YouTube you can follow. 

Slooh will have host live feeds from the Middle East, India, and Singapore beginning at 6:30 p.m. PST/9:30 p.m. EST/2:30 UTC 

Here’s one (above) from Tharulowa Digital: Institute of Astronomy Sri Lanka.

It’s also worth checking-out Timeanddate.com’s live feed on YouTube.

Are there any annular solar eclipses in 2020? 

On June 21, 2020 a much deeper 99% annular solar eclipse—itself a very rare event—will see the Moon block the Sun for just over a minute (maximum). Visible from the Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, South Sudan, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Yemen, Oman, Pakistan, India, Tibet, China, Taiwan and Guam, eclipse-chasers will likely head for the clear skies of Oman and the high altitudes of Tibet for that one. 

A total solar eclipse from La Serana, Chile on July 02, 2019. (Photo by Sebastian Brogca/Anadolu … [+] Agency/Getty Images)

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Is there a total solar eclipse in 2020?

Yes. On December 14, 2020 a total solar eclipse comes to southern Chile and northern Patagonia in Argentina. For 2 minutes 9 seconds eclipse-chasers within a narrow path of totality will get to experience darkness in the day and glimpse the Sun’s mighty white corona, its hotter outer atmosphere. If you want to experience it, start planning now. 

Disclaimer: I am the editor of WhenIsTheNextEclipse.com and co-author of “Total Solar Eclipse 2020”

Wishing you wide eyes and clear skies. 

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Solar Eclipse set to cut a path across South America, plunging parts of the continent into darkness - Fox News

A stunning total solar eclipse will plunge a swath of South America into darkness Tuesday in the world’s first total solar eclipse since 2017.Excitement is mounting ahead of Tuesday’s unusual event. “The July 2nd eclipse is the first total solar eclipse since the Transcontinental Total Solar Eclipse in summer of 2017,” explained Dr. Paige Godfrey, an astrophysicist at the Slooh telescope network, in a statement emailed to Fox News. “That was almost two years ago now, and people are still talking about it as the greatest celestial event of their lifetimes. That event has had a lasting effect that has heightened excitement for many of these to come.”Millions are expected to gaze at the cosmic spectacle that will begin at 2:24 p.m. EDT in the South Pacific and sweep along a path 6,800 miles across open waters to Chile and Argentina, the only places that the total eclipse will be seen aside from an uninhabited island out in the ocean.TOTAL SOLAR ECLIPSE WILL PLUNGE PARTS OF SOUTH AMERICA INTO DARKNESS“It’s eclipse day!” tweeted NASA Sun and Space on Tuesday.The line of totality also passes within a mile of the site for the planned Giant Magellan Telescope at La Serena, on the edge of the Atacama Desert in Chile.In a statement emailed to Fox News, Patrick McCarthy, astronomer and vice president of the Giant Magellan Telescope, said that officials involved in the project are looking forward to seeing Tuesday’s total solar eclipse.SOLAR ECLIPSE 2017 IN PICTURESWeather permitting, a partial eclipse will also be visible in some places in Ecuador, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay, according to timeanddate.com. A youth dressed as a shaman arrives to take part in a photo session before Tuesday's total solar eclipse, in La Higuera, Chile, Monday, July 1, 2019. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between the Earth and the Sun and scores a bull's-eye by completely blotting out the sunlight.Tens of thousands of tourists flocked to cities and towns across northern Chile to stake out spots in one of the world's best locations to witness Tuesday's total solar eclipse.SOLAR ECLIPSE: THE BIG EVENT IS FINALLY HEREThe eclipse is expected to make its first landfall in Chile at 3:22 p.m EDT in La Serena, a city of some 200,000 people where the arrival of more than 300,000 visitors forced the local water company to increase output and service gas stations to store extra fuel. Police and health services were also reinforced. File photo - Total eclipse of the sun at the location of the longest duration of 2 minutes and 40 seconds in Hopkinsville, KY. Aug. 21, 2017. (Photo by Jonathan Newton / The Washington Post via Getty Images)The total eclipse will begin there at 4:38 p.m. and last about 2½ minutes.After making its way across Chile and Argentina, the full eclipse will end at 4:44:46 p.m. EDT according to timeanddate.com.WHAT CAUSES A TOTAL SOLAR ECLIPSE?Slooh notes that its southern hemisphere observatory, the La Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (PUC), is not in the line of totality. However, the organization is working with partner observatories and PUC staff to capture a live stream of the event. File photo - Enthusiasts Tanner Person (R) and Josh Blink, both from Vacaville, California, watch a total solar eclipse while standing atop Carroll Rim Trail at Painted Hills, a unit of the John Day Fossil Beds National Monument, near Mitchell, Oregon, U.S. August 21, 2017. (REUTERS/Adrees Latif)“The 2019 South American solar eclipse is not an easy event to capture,” explained Slooh’s Chief Astronomical Officer, Paul Cox, in the statement. “Unlike the 2017 eclipse, the path of totality (the 90-mile wide path of the Moon's umbral shadow) only makes landfall across a narrow stretch of Chile and Argentina, and a tiny uninhabited South Pacific island. Having raced across the Pacific Ocean at over 6,000 mph, by the time the Moon's shadow reaches the west coast of Chile, the Sun will be low to the horizon, with the partial eclipse phases occurring just as the Sun is setting.”Many Americans fondly remember the solar eclipse of 2017, which captivated millions of people across the country.NASA'S PARKER SOLAR PROBE BLASTS OFF ON EPIC JOURNEY TO 'TOUCH THE SUN'The coast-to-coast eclipse on Aug. 21 of that year carved a 70-mile wide path of totality from the Pacific coast to the Atlantic, with hordes of people donning solar eclipse glasses to experience the unusual event. The eclipse, which began in Oregon and ended in South Carolina, was the first to cross the continental U.S. since 1918. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory saw a total eclipse from space on Feb. 11, 2018. (Joy Ng/NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/SDO)Families from all over the country flocked to cities in the line of totality, such as Charleston and Nashville, which hosted over 1 million visitors.The next total solar eclipse in the U.S. will be in 2024 and the next coast-to-coast one won't be until 2045.NASA’S PARKER SOLAR PROBE BREAKS RECORD, BECOMES CLOSEST SPACECRAFT TO THE SUNNASA will be closely monitoring the July 2 total eclipse in South America. “Studying the Sun during total solar eclipses helps scientists understand the source and behavior of solar radiation that drives space weather near Earth, which can affect the health of astronauts in space and the durability of materials used to build spacecraft,” it explains NASA, on its website. “Similar data will be important in planning NASA’s return of astronauts to the Moon in 2024 and eventual crewed missions to Mars.” File photo - A photo taken during the total solar eclipse on Aug. 2017. (NASA/Gopalswamy)The space agency will be live-streaming the total solar eclipse with the Exploratorium in San Francisco. NASA will also be providing updates from its Parker Solar Probe.CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APPThe Probe blasted off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station atop a United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy rocket on Aug. 12, 2018. The $1.5 billion mission is taking humanity closer to the Sun than ever before.The Associated Press contributed to this article. Follow James Rogers on Twitter @jamesjrogers SOURCE NEWS SITE Read the full article

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Total solar eclipse moves across South America Tuesday

On Tuesday, a total solar eclipse will stretch across South America. The path of totality, where the moon visibly blocks the sun, will span parts of Chile and Argentina. Outside the path of totality, a partial solar eclipse will be visible.

The umbral shadow — the area in which the sun will appear completely covered by the moon — will pass over the Pacific Ocean, Chile and Argentina, according to NASA.

Depending on where you are, the spectacle could last up to four minutes and three seconds, the space agency said.

The total solar eclipse will appear in the sky over the city of La Serena, Chile, at 4.38 p.m. ET and travel across the Andes mountain range before ending near Buenos Aires, Argentina, at 4.44 p.m. ET.

To see “totality,” in which the moon completely blocks the sun, you will need to be inside the narrow swath — about 90 miles wide — of the moon’s shadow. But weather may be the next biggest obstacle for those within the path of totality. Cloudy skies could block the view of the total solar eclipse.

Outside of this path, a partial solar eclipse will be visible in Argentina and Chile, as well as Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Paraguay, Uruguay and parts of Colombia, Brazil, Venezuela and Panama, according to NASA.

“The July 2nd eclipse is the first total solar eclipse since the transcontinental total solar eclipse in summer of 2017,” said Paige Godfrey in a statement, astrophysicist at the Slooh Community Observatory which has a location in Chile.”That was almost two years ago now, and people are still talking about it as the greatest celestial event of their lifetimes. That event has had a lasting effect that has heightened excitement for many of these to come.”

But this eclipse won’t be easy to spot as the 2017 eclipse, which moved diagonally from west to east across North America.

“The 2019 South American solar eclipse is not an easy event to capture,” said Paul Cox, Slooh’s chief astronomical officer. “Unlike the 2017 eclipse, and except for a tiny uninhabited South Pacific island, the path of totality — the 90-mile wide path of the Moon’s umbral shadow — only makes landfall across a narrow stretch of Chile and Argentina. Having raced across the Pacific Ocean at over 6,000 mph, by the time the Moon’s shadow reaches the west coast of Chile, the Sun will be low to the horizon, with the partial eclipse phases occurring just as the Sun is setting.”

If you can’t watch the eclipse from your location, there are several options to watch online. NASA is partnering with Exploratorium in San Francisco to present live views from Chile between 3 and 6 p.m. ET. Slooh will share a live stream between 3:15 p.m. and 5:50 p.m. ET. The European Southern Observatory, based in Chile, will also share a live view.

If you miss Tuesday’s eclipse and you’re eclipse chaser who doesn’t mind globetrotting, you can also catch these total solar eclipses around the world in the coming years:

2020: South Pacific, Chile, Argentina, South Atlantic

2021: Antarctica

2024: North America

2026: the Arctic, Greenland, Iceland, Spain

2027: Morocco, Spain, Algeria, Libya, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Somalia

2028: Australia, New Zealand

2030: Botswana, South Africa, Australia

How to safely watch the eclipse

Wherever you are in the path of the eclipse, you’re going to want to look up, and that’s OK. Every astronomer will tell you to enjoy this rare opportunity. No matter what superstitions you’ve heard, there is no risk to your health due to simply being outside during a total solar eclipse.

But there’s one thing you shouldn’t do, and that’s look at the sun with your naked eye.

Don’t do it. Really.

The only time you can look at the sun with your naked eye is A) if you’re in the path of totality, where the sun will be completely covered by the moon, and B) during those two minutes or less when the sun is completely covered.

During those brief and geographically constrained moments, the brightness of the sun is reduced to that of a full moon, which can be viewed safely without anything over your eyes.

Otherwise, any glimpse of the sun’s brightness is not only uncomfortable, it’s dangerous.

Looking directly at the powerful brightness of the sun can cause damage to the retina, the light-sensitive part of the eye.

“When you look directly at the sun, the intensity of the light and the focus of the light is so great on the retina that it can cook it,” said Dr. Christopher Quinn, former president of the American Optometric Association. “If the exposure is great enough, that can and will lead to permanent reduction in vision and even blindness.”

The retina may translate light into an electrical impulse that the brain understands, but one thing it can’t translate to your brain is pain. So even if you’re excited about the eclipse and think one brief glimpse at the sun before it completely hides behind the moon is worth it — it’s not. There’s no internal trigger that is going to let you know that you’ve looked at the sun for too long. Any amount of looking at it is too long.

Even the smallest amount of exposure can cause blurry vision or temporary blindness. The problem is, you won’t know whether it’s temporary.

“It’s really impossible for people, when they’re in the moment, to make a judgment over brief versus prolonged exposure,” Quinn said. “It’s never a good idea to view the eclipse without the protection.”

When the total solar eclipse happened across America in 2017, a young woman sustained permanent eye damage from viewing the eclipse without proper eye protection.

No matter how cute or fancy they may be, wearing your favorite pair of sunglasses — or a whole stack of sunglasses, for any MacGyver wannabes out there — won’t help. You’ll need eclipse glasses, which are regulated by an international safety standard.

Astronomers Without Borders sent recycled eclipse glasses from around the US to different schools, astronomy clubs and organizations in South America.

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Solar Eclipse in South America: What You Need to Know

Late on Tuesday afternoon, the moon will block out the sun in South America.

Millions of people living in cities from La Serena, Chile, to San Juan, Argentina, will witness the event as shadows spread over hills and an uncanny coolness invades deserts. Many more have ventured to the region specifically for the spectacle — one that some astronomers are calling the Great South American Eclipse.

The celestial phenomenon is the first total solar eclipse since August 2017, generating excitement among professional astronomers, eclipse chasers and casual observers because it offers the opportunity to see pale tendrils of the sun’s atmosphere, or corona.

“We only get a few minutes to see the solar corona during an eclipse,” said Ivo Saviane, an astronomer at the La Silla Observatory situated on the outskirts of the Chilean Atacama Desert. “But this is a great chance to see the corona shoot ultrahot gas and study mechanisms like solar wind, which are still quite mysterious,” he said.

Here’s all you need to know to about the best times and places to watch the eclipse in-person and online.

When does the eclipse start?

The eclipse will start above the southern Pacific Ocean at 12:55 p.m. Eastern time and then arc toward the western coast of Chile. As the moon bites into more of the sun, daylight will slowly become dimmer. La Serena, Chile, will be the first city of South America to experience the peak eclipse, or totality, at 4:38 p.m. Eastern time (the time zone is the same in Chile). This will only last one or two minutes. Then the eclipse will barrel east.

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Which places are in the eclipse’s path?

The path of the totality will track a strip of land about 90 miles wide, from La Serena to Chascomús, a city just south of Buenos Aires, Argentina.

The luckiest eclipse viewers may be people at Chile’s La Silla Observatory, situated on a mountaintop in the Atacama Desert. The area’s climate makes it more likely that it will be free of pesky clouds when totality begins there at 4:39 p.m. Eastern.

But not everyone seeking a good view will need to trek out to the desert or up a mountain.

“The sun will be about 14 degrees above the horizon at the time of the total eclipse, so it will be really low,” Dr. Saviane said. “That means you can see the eclipse from anywhere, as long as there are no clouds obstructing your view.”

Skywatchers in Chascomús, Argentina, will be the last to see the totality, at 4:42 p.m. Eastern (or 5:42 p.m. local time in Argentina). After that, the eclipse will head into the Atlantic Ocean and effectively end when the sun sets around 4:50 p.m. (5:50 p.m. local time).

Outside the path of totality, people will be able to see a partial eclipse in the rest of Chile and Argentina as well as in Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Paraguay, Uruguay and even parts of Colombia, Brazil, Venezuela and Panama.

How do you watch an eclipse safely?

Whatever you do, do not look directly at the sun during a partial or total solar eclipse.

If you’re planning on seeing the eclipse in-person, make sure to use proper eye protection. You’ll need special eclipse glasses or a pinhole camera.

In a pinch, you can also make a make a pinhole camera by making a tight circle with your fist. Then look for the shadow of the crescent sun on the ground. The gaps between the tree leaves can serve the same purpose, projecting hundreds of tiny, flickering images of the sun.

You can watch the eclipse online, too.

If you’re not already in or near one of the South American cities in the path of the eclipse, there are plenty of places to watch it online:

The European Southern Observatory, which runs La Silla, plans to livestream the eclipse starting at 3:15 p.m., about an hour before totality.

The Slooh Community Observatory will have broadcasts from telescopes locations in Chile and Argentina.

And you can catch also TimeandDate.com’s eclipse coverage on YouTube.

When is the next solar eclipse?

If you miss the solar eclipse, or are so transformed by viewing it that you want to chase the next one, don’t worry. Total solar eclipses happen somewhere around the world every 18 months or so.

The next one will happen as soon as December 2020. It will pass over Chile and Argentina again, as well as parts of southwest Africa and Antarctica. And the next one over the United States will be in 2024, blazing a northeast-bound path that starts in Mexico in the southwest and crosses the entire United States until it ends in Canada.

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Comet 73P cracking into pieces as it passes past Earth

Slooh astronomers operating a telescope in Chile captured the moment Comet 73P/Schwassmann-Wachmann broke into at least two pieces as it flew past Earth.

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Comet breaking up on flight by Earth caught by Slooh members

Comet 73P/Schwassmann-Wachmann has experienced a breakup on its journey past the Earth on its way toward the Sun. On the night of February 12th, Slooh members using the company's telescopes in Chile were able to view the comet as it broke into two pieces. This seems to be the continuation of a process that was first witnessed in 1995, then again in 2006. http://dlvr.it/NN4CN7

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This is the Small Magellanic Cloud! 🌌🌌🌌

The size and shape of this satellite galaxy makes it a dwarf and irregular galaxy. With its orbital partner, the Large Magellanic Cloud, the pair orbits the Milky Way once every 1.5 billion years and orbits each other once every 900 million years! 💫💫💫

Taken by me (Michelle Park) using the Slooh Chile Two telescope on December 13th, 2021 at 2:55 UTC. 

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This is McNeil’s Nebula! 💫💫💫

This beautiful nebula was discovered recently in 2004 and was found to be a variable nebula, likely because it is lit up by a variable star inside. However, mysteries still remain: in 2018, amateur astronomers thought that the nebula had disappeared! ✨✨✨

Taken by me (Michelle Park) using the Slooh Chile Two telescope on January 3rd, 2022 at 6:27 UTC. 

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This is the Trifid Nebula! 🎀🎀🎀

With its name meaning “divided into 3 lobes”, this close-up picture shows the stellar beauty of this star-forming region. Containing an open cluster, emission nebula, reflection nebula, and a dark nebula, the Trifid Nebula is one of the most unique nebulae that makes it a common target for astronomers! 💖💖💖

Taken by me (Michelle Park) using the Slooh Chile Two telescope on June 12th, 2021 at 1:47 UTC. 

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This is Comet Leonard! 🌠🌠🌠

This beautiful comet was discovered quite recently on January 3rd, 2021, being the first comet discovered this year. Nicknamed the “Christmas Comet”, this is the first time in 80,000 years and unfortunately the last time the comet will approach the inner solar system! 🔥🔥🔥

Taken by me (Michelle Park) using the Slooh Chile Two telescope on December 22nd, 2021 at 01:03 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.  

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This is the Large Magellanic Cloud! 🌌🌌🌌

Despite being a satellite galaxy, the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) is the closest galaxy to our Milky Way and the 4th largest galaxy in our Local Group. This galaxy is full of vibrant stars, with many of them in the famous star-forming region called the Tarantula Nebula! ✨✨✨

Taken by me (Michelle Park) using the Slooh Chile Two telescope on December 13th, 2021 at 2:52 UTC. 

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My Top Posts in 2021

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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 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 the Eight Burst Nebula! 🌈🌈🌈

The bright white dwarf at the center of this planetary nebula results in this rainbow glow from its intense ultraviolet radiation. The beautiful structure of this nebula is known to arise from the death of a Sun-like star, but its asymmetry draws questions to this day! 💖💖💖

Taken by me (Michelle Park) using the Slooh Chile Two telescope on December 27th, 2021 at 05:03 UTC.