Does the universe love you? Yes, and it's showing you that by merging the galaxies NGC 4038 and NGC 4039 together over 900 million years.
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So this game is pretty damn fun! It's a short point and click survival horror, set on a crab fishing boat, and made by a Melbourne dev. Check it out:
store.steampowered.com/app/3671850/...
#games #gamedev #melbourne #indiedev #indiegame
In the Small Magellanic Cloud are two vibrant star-forming regions, NGC 346 and NGC 371. NGC 346 is a brilliant stellar nursery, containing thousands of young stars. Nearby NGC 371 is distinguished by its high concentration of variable stars.
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94,000 light-years in diameter, making it slightly smaller than our Milky Way Galaxy, the Sculptor Pinwheel Galaxy is a spiral galaxy in the direction of the Sculptor group of galaxies.
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Sir, this is a Wendy's
The Lobster Nebula (the Madokami Nebula if you're an anime fan) is a diffuse nebula in the constellation Scorpius. Shielded by dark discs of gas, the nebula contains many proto stars including young stars centered within expanding gas clouds
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Wonky is back up and running! It finished its test run last night with flying colours and fingers crossed we'll get back to posting awesome space photos soon!
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The Cosmic Bat Nebula. This dense molecular cloud blocks light from both background stars and the nearby reflection nebula. Young stars, recently formed within its dense gaseous knots, illuminate the nebula, giving it an eerie glow
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It's been a journey. From the days in lockdown with an ED80 and a mate's camera, to a fully automated remote observatory. Wonky has its quirks and has needed a lot of fixes, but you just can't beat getting all that data when you want it
#space #observatory #photography #diy #astro #astrophotography
The Great Carina Nebula, The Carina Nebula, or just NGC 3372, is a massive area of nebulosity in the constellation of Carina. Spanning a whopping 230 light years it's a complex structure containing multiple nebulae and star clusters.
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Wonky requires regular maintenance, and this all helps :)
The Orion Nebula, this one took a lot of effort. It's 30 second exposures and 2 hours a panel, at 4 separate panels stitched together, for a total of 10648x6744 pixels. And it was super bright!
Might have taken me around 20 hours to edit.
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Got something big in the works. Around 11,000x7,000 pixels big that is!
#nebula #photography #astrophotography #astronomy #space
Haley's Coronet is a barred spiral galaxy located 50 million light-years from us. Viewed side-on, we can see it interacting with a smaller dwarf galaxy, NGC1531, as the outer arm of the galaxy is seemingly pulling towards its smaller companion.
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Wonky received a much needed upgrade over the break. The hatch hinges were replaced and an actuator was added to the hatch. Allowing Wonky to see targets low on the horizon. Fingers crossed we've got some good stuff in store for 2025!
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The Great Barred Spiral Galaxy, or NGC 1365, is a large barred spiral galaxy located within the Fornax cluster. It's estimated to be around 3 times the size of our own Milky Way galaxy, with the outer arms taking 350 million years to finish a single rotation. #space #astronomy #astrophotography
The Pencil Nebula is a small part of the Vela Supernova Remnant, which originated from a star exploding around 11,000 years ago. This explosion caused this particular fragment to fly away from the source at approximately 644,000 kilometers per hour.
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More nerd sharing: I'm also a huge #tabletop dork. Here's my recently finished multicolour #kroot army 🎆
#warhammer #40k #warhammer40k
NGC 6334, also known as the "Cat's Paw" Nebula, is a large cloud of gas spanning 320 light years. This nebula is abundant in ionized hydrogen, which gives off a red hue, while oxygen atoms reflect blue light.
#space #astronomy #cats #astrophotography #cosmic #photography #blender
Thor's Helmet, an emission nebula measuring about 30 light-years across, houses a central star that is approaching a pre-supernova phase. It comprises several hundred solar masses of ionised material, and several thousand more of unionised gas
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What a handsome birb
The Tarantula Nebula, took a loooot of effort!
-4 panel mosaic, 11396x7490 pixels
-10 hours per panel integration time at f5.3
-40 hours total in exposure
-GSO RC12 with .67 reducer
-ZWO asi2600mc Pro camera
-ZWO asi220mm guide camera
-iOptron Cem120 mount
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Or to take photos of 😊
Ha, awesome aesthetics!
