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This is Comet PanSTARRS! 🌠🌠🌠

This gif was created throughout the night of July 25th and you can see the potentially interstellar comet in motion.

Taken by me (Michelle Park) using the Slooh Canary One telescope on July 25th, 2022.

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This is the Lagoon Nebula! 💗💗💗

The beautiful lagoon shaped portion is created from aggressive stellar winds pushing the nebulae’s gas and dust aside. Many of the stars here are young, hot O-type stars that are more than 200,000 times brighter than the Sun! ✨✨✨

Taken by me (Michelle Park) using the Slooh Canary Two telescope on July 23rd, 2022 at 22:31 UTC.

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This is the Lagoon Nebula! 💗💗💗

The beautiful lagoon shaped portion is created from aggressive stellar winds pushing the nebulae’s gas and dust aside. Many of the stars here are young, hot O-type stars that are more than 200,000 times brighter than the Sun! ✨✨✨

Taken by me (Michelle Park) using the Slooh Canary Two telescope on July 23rd, 2022 at 22:31 UTC.

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This is Comet Pan-STARRS! 🌠🌠🌠

This comet took millions of years to arrive from the Oort Cloud. Its unusual brightness, which allowed it to be visible even in 2013, and its hyperbolic orbit show that the comet could potentially have interstellar origins! 💫💫💫

Taken by me (Michelle Park) using the Slooh Canary Two telescope on July 21st, 2022.

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This is the Silver Coin Galaxy! 💫💫💫

This intermediate spiral galaxy was found when famous astronomers Caroline Herschel was searching for comets in the night sky. At the center of the populated Sculptor galaxy group, this galaxy is one of the brightest and most active galaxies in the Milky Way’s vicinity! ✨✨✨

Taken by me (Michelle Park) using the Slooh Canary Two telescope on July 20th, 2022 at 4:57 UTC.

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This is the Pacman Nebula! 🎲🎲🎲

Located 9,200 light years away and stretching 48 light years across, the Pacman nebula is a star forming region with dense Bok globules and newborn stars. The “Pacman” shape is created by dark dust lanes in front of the stunning emission nebula! 💖💖💖

Taken by me (Michelle Park) using the Slooh Canary Two telescope on June 22nd, 2022 at 2:12 UTC.

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This is the Cat’s Eye Galaxy! 😻😻😻

Within the bright starburst ring, new stars are rapidly forming due to pressure from the galactic center compressing dust and gas. Recently, two faint spiral arms that extend far into space were discovered! 🌌🌌🌌

Taken by me (Michelle Park) using the Slooh Canary Three telescope on June 22nd, 2022 at 00:04 UTC.

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This is the Trifid Nebula! ✨✨✨

At the center of this nebula is a group of bright newborn stars that are releasing streams of radiation and sculpting the nebula’s shape. Located next to the famous Lagoon Nebula, the Trifid Nebula is a common target for astrophotographers due to its vibrant colors and high visibility! 💖💖💖

Taken by me (Michelle Park) using the Slooh Canary Two telescope on June 3rd, 2022 at 1:17 UTC.

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This is the Trifid Nebula! ✨✨✨

At the center of this nebula is a group of bright newborn stars that are releasing streams of radiation and sculpting the nebula’s shape. Located next to the famous Lagoon Nebula, the Trifid Nebula is a common target for astrophotographers due to its vibrant colors and high visibility! 💖💖💖

Taken by me (Michelle Park) using the Slooh Canary Two telescope on June 3rd, 2022 at 1:17 UTC.

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This is the Jewel Box! 💎💎💎

Located in the southern constellation Crux and visible to the naked eye, the Jewel Box contains a diverse variety of blue and red stars. The unique name of “Jewel Box” was given by John Herschel, standing out amidst the nearby dark nebula named the Coal Sack! 💫💫💫

Taken by me (Michelle Park) using the Slooh Canary Two telescope on May 26th, 2022 at 2:22 UTC.

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This is the North America Nebula! 🌎🌎🌎

Although the thick dust of this nebula makes it opaquely red, the use of infrared telescopes reveal a beautiful stellar landscape underneath. Stretching across 50 light years, this nebula contains thousands of young, hot stars that heat up the surrounding gas and make it emit its amazing colors! 💥💥💥

Taken by me (Michelle Park) using the Slooh Canary One telescope on May 26th, 2022 at 4:33 UTC.

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This is the Orion Nebula! ✨✨✨

Recent observations by the Hubble Space Telescope reveal the presence of protoplanetary disks, or proplyds, in the Orion Nebula. Newborn stars form in this beautiful nebula when clumps of hydrogen gas condense and become hot enough for stellar fusion! 💥💥💥

Taken by me (Michelle Park) using the Slooh Canary Two telescope on January 20th, 2022 at 3:22 UTC.

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This is the Whirlpool Galaxy! 🌪🌪🌪

The vibrant colors are separated in this “astro-art” picture, giving us a unique view of this famous galaxy. As the first galaxy to be classified as a spiral galaxy, this majestic collision demonstrates how gravitational forces can tear apart and evolve galaxies! 💫💫💫

Taken by me (Michelle Park) using the Slooh Canary One telescope on May 22nd, 2022 at 23:51 UTC.

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This is the Lunar Eclipse of May 15th, 2022! 💖💖💖

As the Earth’s shadow covers the Moon, it appears to disappear into darkness. This is just one of 85 lunar eclipses that will occur in the 21st century. If you missed this one, don’t worry! The next total lunar eclipse will occur on November 8th, 2022. 🌑🌛✨

Taken by me (Michelle Park) using the Slooh Canary One telescope on May 15th, 2022.

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This is Centaurus A! 🐎🐎🐎

The center of Centaurus A has a supermassive black hole with a mass of 55 million solar masses! The sudden surge of star formation in this galaxy is likely due to it being created from a spiral galaxy and elliptical galaxy colliding together. 💕💕💕

Taken by me (Michelle Park) using the Slooh Chile One telescope on March 29th, 2022 at 7:08 UTC.

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This is the Statue of Liberty Nebula! 🗽🗽🗽

Located in the Carina arm of the Milky Way and at a distance of 9000 light years away, this towering nebula has 2 huge filaments filled with newborn stars. If you look carefully, you can see looping fragments shaped by the stellar winds of hot stars! 💞💞💞

Taken by me (Michelle Park) using the Slooh Canary Two telescope on March 8th, 2022 at 2:07 UTC.

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This is the Triangulum Galaxy! 🌌🌌🌌

Despite being a spiral galaxy, the Triangulum Galaxy has very little star formation as shown through infrared observations from the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE). However, a region known as NGC 604 is the largest stellar nursery between itself, the Milky Way, and the Andromeda Galaxy! 🔥🔥🔥

Taken by me (Michelle Park) using the Slooh Chile One telescope on March 8th, 2022 at 20:17 UTC.

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