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The idea of more than one sun setting below the horizon might seem like something straight out of science fiction. 🌞

But it’s not.

In fact recent evidence suggest that multiple star systems, with 2 or more stars orbiting one another, are more common than singular star systems like our sun. Which are all alone. We’ve even discovered multiple star systems that contain as many as 6 stars! Granted they certainly wouldn’t look exactly as they would in this picture and life would find it very hard to survive on the surface of a planet nearby orbiting. But the fact that there are solar systems out there where the planets could have views similar to this, is very exciting. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8e5ntmkPy2A

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THE 7 WONDERS OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM 🌋🪐🔭🌑

Episode 4 is now live on YouTube 🙂

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Red, White and Blue! ✨

I took this picture of C14, a double cluster filled with stars young and old!🔭📸

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Vega 🌟

One of my favourite stars.

It may be 25.05 light years away, but it shines so bright I can still capture a picture of it! 🔭📸

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A R E   W E   A L O N E  ? 👽

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ASTRONOMICAL EPISODE 3 IS NOW UP!😁 Are we alone in the universe? In this episode, we explore the potential for life in our universe as well as try to figure out why we still haven't made contact with another intelligent civilization, or have we...? Click here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jblgh6JnmlY

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A S T R O N O M I C A L | Episode 2 is out now! 🌟🔭🌌

Things got a little messy in this episode as we explored the effects of time delay and learn just how easy it really is to travel in time! Watch now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvLrrgCiYl0

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Lost.

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Stars can come in all different sizes and colours!✨⭐ Depending on a stars mass, it will take a certain path through life.

The small ones, tend to dwindle away for trillions of years, giving off small amounts of heat and light.

Slightly larger ones, such as our sun, live for around 10 billion years but as they reach the end, they swell into a red giant, before going supernova and producing a planetary nebula! Whilst the really big stars, the biggest in our universe, do something truly special, they will either collapse into a neutron star, which are amongst the densest objects in the universe, or, they will be unable to stop the gravitational collapse and form a void in space, a Black Hole. To see this video in full, click here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rQkr6gkOSQ

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The cosmic timeline🔭✨⭐

A small snippet from the latest episode of Astronomical:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rQkr6gkOSQ

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MASSIVE THANK YOU TO EVERYONE WHO SUBSCRIBED AND LIKED THE TRAILER YESTERDAY!

Just to clarify , there will be 7 episodes each about 20-30 minutes long!

Series 1 episode list: EP 1: We are stardust (May 1st) EP 2: Everything we see is in the past (May 15th) EP 3: Are we alone? (May 29th) EP 4: The 7 wonders of the Solar system (June 12th) EP 5: The 8 wonders of the Universe (June 26th) EP 6: We are explorers (July 10th) EP 7: How the Universe will end (July 24th)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3MFZV6YF3M Thank you!!

IT’S HERE, IT’S FINALLY FINISHED!

For the past few years I’ve been working on a space documentary series called “ASTRONOMICAL” and now the trailer is available to watch on Youtube. Thank you to everyone who has been supportive throughout this period, it has meant a great deal. The first of 7 episodes will be posted Friday, May 1st. I’ll still be posting my regular content on here, only now with the addition of snippets from this series! VERY EXCITED!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3MFZV6YF3M

^^^^^^^^Check it out now ^^^^^^^^^

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Was that a satellite or a meteor?!

In case you were wondering what the difference is between a satellite and a meteor, here's an example of each.

I've adjusted my camera's settings to replicate the human eye as much as possible.

The two satellites at the start are part of Elon Musk's starlink and can be seen lasting up to a few minutes.

Whilst the meteors are over very quickly, lasting barely a second. The bigger meteors leave behind a brief trail after vaporising in the atmosphere.

Visit https://findstarlink.com/

for fairly accurate timings of when the satellites will be visible from your location.

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IT’S HERE, IT’S FINALLY FINISHED!

For the past few years I’ve been working on a space documentary series called “ASTRONOMICAL” and now the trailer is available to watch on Youtube. Thank you to everyone who has been supportive throughout this period, it has meant a great deal. The first of 7 episodes will be posted Friday, May 1st. I’ll still be posting my regular content on here, only now with the addition of snippets from this series! VERY EXCITED!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3MFZV6YF3M

^^^^^^^^Check it out now ^^^^^^^^^

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When stars above 8 times our own suns mass reach the end of their lives, they go supernova producing a planetary nebula!

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The Pleiades star cluster!

The seven sisters (Pleiades) is a star cluster that is easily visible to the naked eye, it’s actually one of the main reasons why I became interested in astronomy. I took this image with an 8 inch sky-watcher Newtonian telescope (£180 used)

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I CAUGHT 2 SATELLITES WHEN LOOKING THROUGH MY TELESCOPE!

I was imaging Caldwell 14, a double cluster of stars, when two satellites happened to pass by! Here’s an image I took of the star cluster last year, a brilliant mixture of both young and old stars!

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THE GREAT CLUSTER IN HERCULES!

This is a collection of over 300,000 stars, located in the constellation Hercules. This type of star cluster is known as a globular cluster, the stars are packed together more than a 100x more densely than our star is with its stellar neighbours. So densely in fact, that the stars often collide and form NEW STARS.

Live view of what you would actually see through the telescope.

A single 30 second exposure with my Canon 450d.

18x stacked 30 second images and a bit of tweaking done in photoshop. The telescope used to image - Meade LX200 14 inch SCT.

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Two pictures I took of a star going supernova and outshining the entire galaxy! These are two images I shot of the Cigar galaxy, before and after a star within it went supernova. A supernova is when a star collapses in on itself and explodes, scattering its enriched guts across the universe. The light produced from this is so bright, that for the first few days it can outshine its entire galaxy!