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Christina Lee
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I am a single mom with a lovely daughter and my own business. I just left X and chose to come to Bluesky. I love the beach, traveling,, yoga, and challenging myself with new things. Life should be full of challenges and fun!
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We continue our #Webb series with vibrant star clusters ✨

🤩 The globular cluster NGC 6440
🤩 The central portion of the star cluster IC 348
🤩 The massive star cluster NGC 346
🤩 The open cluster Westerlund 1

🔭 #astronomy #space
The globular cluster NGC 6440. A spherical collection of stars which fills the whole view. The cluster is dominated by a concentrated group of bright white stars at the centre, with several large yellow stars scattered throughout the image. Many of the stars have visible diffraction spikes. The background is black. The central portion of the star cluster IC 348. Wispy hair-like filaments of pink-purple fill the middle of the image, curving left and right on either side of the centre. On the right, the filaments form a dramatic loop that seems to extend toward the viewer. At lower left are additional yellowish filaments. Two prominent, bright stars near the centre of the image show Webb’s eight-point diffraction spikes. Dozens of fainter stars are scattered across the image. The massive star cluster NGC 346. The centre of the image contains arcs of orange and pink that form a boat-like shape. One end of these arcs points to the top right of the image, while the other end points toward the bottom left. Another plume of orange and pink expands from the centre to the top left of the image. To the right of this plume is a large cluster of white stars. There are various other white stars and a few galaxies of different sizes spread throughout the image. The open cluster Westerlund 1. A dense cluster of bright stars, each with six large and two small diffraction spikes, due to the telescope’s optics. They have a variety of sizes depending on their brightness and distance from us in the cluster, and different colours reflecting different types of star. Patches of billowing red gas can be seen in and around the cluster, lit up by the stars. Small stars in the cluster blend into a background of distant stars and galaxies on black.
March 5, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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We continue our #Webb series with mighty galaxies

🌀 spiral galaxy NGC 2566 in the constellation Puppis
👒 the Sombrero galaxy
🐧🥚 the interacting galaxies, the Penguin & the Egg
🤸 the Cartwheel Galaxy

🔭 #astronomy #space
An oval-shaped spiral galaxy, seen close-up. Its core is a compact, pale spot that glows brightly, filling the disc with bluish light. Faint strands of pale reddish dust swirl out from the core to the far sides of the disc. They each join up with an arm of thick, cloudy, red dust with brighter orange patches, that follows the edge of the disc around to the opposite end and a little off the galaxy. Credit: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, A. Leroy Image of a galaxy on the black background of space. The galaxy is a very oblong, blue disk that extends from left to right at an angle (from about 10 o’clock to 5 o’clock). The galaxy has a small bright core at the centre. There is an inner disk that is clearer, with speckles of stars scattered throughout. The outer disk of the galaxy is whiteish-blue, and clumpy, like clouds in the sky. There are different coloured dots, distant galaxies, speckled among the black background of space surrounding the galaxy. Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI Two interacting galaxies known as Arp 142. At left is NGC 2937, nicknamed the Egg for its appearance. At right is NGC 2936, nicknamed the Penguin for its appearance. The latter’s beak-like region points toward and above the Egg. Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI
February 26, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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Wanna watch a moon landing??? This video of Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost is *chef’s kiss*

The earth over the horizon, the shadows, the dust, it’s amazing 😍🧪🔭

📸: Firefly Aerospace
March 5, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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palomarskies.bsky.social
🔭 Rather than watch the political event last night I had an extra credit observing session for my astronomy students. Here are some of the sights captured with our @unistellar.bsky.social telescope: Jupiter, the Orion Nebula (M42), the Moon and the Crab Nebula supernova remnant.
A telescopic image of Jupiter showing its dark cloud bands. A telescopic image of Messier 42, a large fan-shaped nebula that is mostly red in color. Lots of stars are visible. A telescopic image of the Moon in the waxing crescent phase. Many impact craters and dark lunar seas are visible. A telescopic image showing lots of stars and an irregularly-shaped nebula at center.
March 5, 2025 at 3:33 PM