The Dolphin Head nebula in Canis Major constellation, photographed from my terrace
1/ The Dolphin Head (Sh2-308) is an emission nebula in the Canis Major region: a huge bubble created by material expelled by the star WR6, swept by its powerful stellar wind.
It’s also a target that drove me crazy for four years before I finally started to get a grip on it. ➡️
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#Astrophotography
#Women&GirlsinScienceDay Academic & particle physicist Anne Kernan was a huge advocate for women in science, on one occasion funding a trip to CERN for an undergrad she had never met, meeting her at the airport and paying for her accommodation until funding came through. www.dib.ie/biography/ke...
At the centre is a thin vertical cloud known as Lynds 483 (L483) that is roughly shaped like an hourglass with irregular edges. The lower lobe is slightly cut off. The top lobe is seen in full, petering out at the top.
New JWST image dropped: actively forming star system Lynds 483 (NIRCam image)
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NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI
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And one day the girl with the books became the woman writing them.
Textile artwork featuring two birds in flight, flring right, against a swirling sky
'Twisting and turning' by UK textile artist Rachel Wright, machine embroidered #WomensArt
From: The Little Mermaid (1968), dir. Ivan Aksenchuk, Soyuzmultfilm
A massive spiral galaxy fills the image, with its bright yellow core seen near the upper left. Spiral arms whirl outward, laced through with dark brown dust and bright blue patches of star formation.
Angled from the upper left corner to the lower right corner is a cone-shaped orange-red cloud known as Herbig-Haro 49/50. This feature takes up about three-fourths of the length of this angle. The upper left end of this feature has a translucent, rounded end. The conical feature widens slightly from the rounded end at the upper right down to the lower right. Along the cone there are additional rounded edges, like edges of a wave, and intricate foamy-like details, as well as a clearer view of the black background of space. In the upper left, overlapping with the rounded end of Herbig-Haro 49/50, is a background spiral galaxy with a concentrated blue center that fades outward to blend with red spiral arms. The background of space is speckled with some white stars and smaller, more numerous, fainter white galaxies throughout.
A densely packed cluster of yellow stars shines at the center of the image, with more stars scattered throughout. Clouds of glowing indigo gas and dust dominate the lower half of the view, and a red star with diffraction spikes shines at upper right.
A nebula made up of cloudy gas and dust in the form of soft and wispy clouds and, in the center, thin and highly detailed layers pressed close together. Large, bright stars surrounded by six long points of light are dotted over the image, as well as some small, point-like stars embedded in the clouds. The clouds are lit up in blue close to the stars; orange colors show clouds that glow in infrared light.
i need some space… and maybe you do too
Painting of an upright red fox walking to the right carrying a parasol all against a silver background
'Fox, on the way to a fox’s wedding'- Watercolour and white gold by Jackie Morris, contemporary artist, author and illustrator who lives and works in a small cottage by the sea in Wales #WomensArt
This is a highly detailed composite image of a star-forming region of space known as 30 Doradus, shaped like a bouquet, or a maple leaf. X-ray wind and gas takes the shape of a massive purple and pink bouquet with an extended central flower, or perhaps a leaf from a maple tree. The hazy, mottled shape occupies much of the image, positioned just to our left of center, tilted slightly to our left. Inside the purple and pink gas and wind cloud are red and orange veins, and pockets of bright white light. The red and orange veins represent energy ejected by supernovas, carried on cosmically strong winds. The pockets of white light represent clusters of young stars. One cluster at the heart of 30 Doradus houses the most massive stars astronomers have ever found. The hazy purple and pink bouquet is surrounded by glowing dots of green, white, orange, and red.
NEW COMPOSITE IMAGE OF THE TARANTULA NEBULA FROM CHANDRA, HUBBLE, AND ALMA!!! 🌌
A breathtaking image of V838 Monocerotis, a red giant star that mysteriously brightened dramatically in 2002. The nebula surrounding the star is a result of this outburst, showcasing a complex interplay of colors and textures as the star's light interacts with the surrounding gas and dust.
V838.
Each color shows the passage of time. As the bright flash of light left the star, it illuminated the dust surrounding it, but because space is so big, we actually see the light travelling and illuminating the dust as it goes along.
By Judy Schmidt.
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I see Regan, Goneril, and the Mouse, but who are the other two?
The WITCH HEAD NEBULA
He’s finished! I love embroidering a tabby. 🪡 🧵
I am not a baking person, but I am a sandwich person. This inspires me; it’s not too late to be both.
Cosmos without, cosmos within…
I don’t know what’s going on with me, but I can not get enough of this kind of imagery. This is full on, but the post-Hubble Webb images have changed my brain.
Nebula NGC 5189 captured by Hubble
If I had but tattoo artist enough and time.
Truly, the comfort this brings me is astounding. Viva la boring sandwich. Viva la Revolución.
The Twin Jet Nebula from Hubble
7500 light-years away from us
Thus far, one of my favorite parts of coming here is that I’ve learned so much about embroidery and nebulae.
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