Some nights don't need witnesses.
The pond remembered what the sky looked like before morning arrived, holding every constellation as if it had been entrusted with a secret. I stood quietly on the bank, afraid that even one ripple might send the stars back where they belonged.
For a little while, the universe existed twice. ✨🌌

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M27 - dumbell nebula
This sphere of ionised (electrically excited) gas is expanding at a rate of 31kms per second after the collapse of the parent star about 14,500 years ago. It has collapsed to a white dwarf star whose radiation is illuminating the gas by ionisation.

Our sun will probably follow a similar path in 5 or 6 billion years, since it's not big enough to collapse into a black hole.

M27 dumbell nebula is around 1360 light years away in the constellation Vulpecula (fox). It was the first planetary nebula discovered, by Charles Messier in 1764.

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M27 - dumbell nebula

M27 dumbell nebula is around 1360 light years away in the constellation Vulpecula (fox). It was the first planetary nebula discovered, by Charles Messier in 1764.

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IC 1396A - The Elephant's Trunk Nebula
This is a dark, dense region of interstellar gas and dust located about 2,400 light-years away in the constellation Cepheus. 4 hours exposure on the Seestar S50, processed and edited in Siril and GIMP.

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IC 1396A - The Elephant's Trunk Nebula
This is a dark, dense region of interstellar gas and dust located about 2,400 light-years away in the constellation Cepheus. 4 hours exposure on the Seestar S50, processed and edited in Siril and GIMP.

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Look up to the sky...

and realise that not all galaxies announce themselves. NGC 4236 is a vast spiral whose faint light has been traveling millions of years to reach us.

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💁🏻‍♀️ TIL: #BryceCanyon in #Utah isn’t actually a #canyon – it’s a series of natural amphitheaters holding the world’s largest collection of #hoodoos, rock spires up to 60m tall that began forming 50 million years ago. 🏜️

The #park sits at 2,400m elevation, hosts #endangered species like the Utah #prairiedog and #California #condor, and became an International Dark Sky Park in 2019. 🌌

👉 https://www.discoverwildlife.com/environment/bryce-canyon-utah

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These 50-million-year-old giants are taller than the Statue of Liberty – and there are thousands of them | Discover Wildlife

Utah's Bryce Canyon isn’t a canyon at all, but a vast high plateau carved into numerous amphitheatres – and within these incredible rock formations there is life.

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NGC 7635 - Bubble Nebula
Caldwell 11 is also known as the Bubble Nebula and is 7000 light years away in Cassiopeia. The bubble is formed by the stellar winds from a massive star which also illuminates the nearby giant molecular cloud.
Seestar S50
Processed in Siril and GIMP

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