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Tyler

@golangandrainbows.bsky.social

Stargayzing with the family and snapped these amazing shots.

September 13, 2025 at 5:58 PM

Tyler

@golangandrainbows.bsky.social

We captured this image of the North America Nebula with the Vaonis Vespera Pro from Cherry Springs State Park.

#astronomy #stars #stateparks

September 12, 2025 at 4:03 PM

Tyler

@golangandrainbows.bsky.social

I’m into this

www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...

Come early, leave early: a gen X dance party that ends at 10pm is taking off across the US

Founded in Chicago by two friends in their 40s, Earlybirds Club gives people an opportunity to let loose without interfering with responsibilities

www.theguardian.com

February 9, 2025 at 1:55 AM

Tyler

@golangandrainbows.bsky.social

Dear Canada 🇨🇦 and Mexico 🇲🇽

Do what you need to do. We won’t blame you.

Signed,
Americans 🇺🇸

February 2, 2025 at 9:59 PM

Tyler

@golangandrainbows.bsky.social

Unfathomable beauty.

Thomas Carpentier @thocarp.bsky.social · Jan 31

Another Hubble magic to end the week! 🔭

This is the N44 nebula in the LMC, located 160,000 light years away. A *lot* of massive stars are born inside this nebula!

It is also one of my favourite images that I processed 😊

HD: flic.kr/p/2qJaPz1

A nebula where the gas appears red, blue and grey/silver. On the top left a "bubble" can be spotted: a massive star created it thanks to its stellar winds. Another one can be seen on the bottom left. Hundreds of stars are spread everywhere.

February 1, 2025 at 4:01 AM

Tyler

@golangandrainbows.bsky.social

Finally put away all the holiday decor. Man, the house feels so empty.

January 26, 2025 at 10:39 PM

Tyler

@golangandrainbows.bsky.social

Guster

January 25, 2025 at 2:48 AM

Tyler

@golangandrainbows.bsky.social

Happy Friday!

Mike L Tilford 📚 😺 @thatwriterguy.bsky.social · Jan 24

If you're feeling down today, here's a raccoon playing with bubbles.
#happyfriday #joy #joyful #happy

January 25, 2025 at 12:08 AM

Tyler

@golangandrainbows.bsky.social

The one earth we have is beautiful. Let’s try to keep her that way.

Christoph Fischer @beautysurroundsyou.com · Jan 24

No matter how dull conditions, there are always photographic opportunities! A long exposure brings out streaking clouds, against the turquoise waters of beautiful Moraine lake in the Canadian Rockies.

#bluesky #photography #landscapephotography #scape
#nature #landscape #naturephotography #travel

January 24, 2025 at 11:24 PM

Tyler

@golangandrainbows.bsky.social

This is one of the many reasons why we fund NASA. Capturing the beauty of our universe.

Kleber Victor #followback @kleber-victor.bsky.social · Jan 24

A stars massive outburst captured by the Hubble Space Telescope.

📽: NASA/ESA

January 24, 2025 at 3:10 AM

Tyler

@golangandrainbows.bsky.social

I am completed enamored with the cosmos. #swoon

Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · Jan 23

another timeline cleanse from all the doom and gloom 🌌

Image of a large galaxy on the right, with two smaller companion galaxies to the left. The large galaxy is ring-shaped, with an oval outer ring, and a small, off-center oval inner ring. The rings and space between are lit with blue plumes and dots. The companion galaxies to the left, one above the other, are much smaller than the main galaxy, and about the same size as each other. The galaxy above has similar coloring and many of the same features as the large ring galaxy, but more of a disturbed s-shape, with no distinct rings. The galaxy below is brighter with a whiter tinge. It has a diffuse spiral shape with a white core similar to that of the ring galaxy, but with a smoother texture. The background is full of more distant, orange-red colored galaxies of various shapes and sizes.

$At the center of the image is a horizontal orange cloud known as Herbig-Haro 46/47 that is uneven with rounded ends, and tilted from bottom left to top right. In the middle of this cloud is a yellow-white blob with 8 reddish pink diffraction spikes piercing through it. The left lobe of the cloud is thicker. Just off the edge is a tiny red arc that curves in the opposite direction. The right lobe is thinner, and ends in a smaller orange semi-circle that has a faint purple outline. Just off the edge of this lobe is a slightly smaller orange sponge-like blob. A delicate, semi-transparent blue cloud known as a nebula drifts toward the top of the image and peters out toward the left of the frame. Toward the right and bottom, the nebula ends in a soft ridge set off in a translucent orange. The background is filled with stars and galaxies. Two foreground stars with blue diffraction spikes, seen in the bottom right corner, are especially prominent.$

A field of galaxies on the black background of space. In the middle is a collection of dozens of yellowish galaxies that form a foreground galaxy cluster. Among them are distorted linear features, which mostly appear to follow invisible concentric circles curving around the center of the image. The linear features are created when the light of a background galaxy is bent and magnified through an effect called gravitational lensing. A variety of brightly colored, red and blue galaxies of various shapes are scattered across the image, making it feel densely populated.

$Red dual opposing jets coming from young stars fill the darker top half of the image. At bottom center is a glowing pale yellow, cave-like structure, its top tilted toward two o’clock, with a bright star at its center. The dust of the cave structure becomes wispy toward eight o’clock. Above the arched top of the dust cave, 3 groupings of stars with diffraction spikes are arranged. A dark cloud sits at the top of the arch of the glowing dust cave, with one streamer curling down the right-hand side. The dark shadow of the cloud appears pinched in the center, with light emerging in a triangle shape above and below the pinch, revealing the presence of a star inside the cloud. The largest jets of red material emanate from within this dark cloud, thick and displaying structure like the rough face of a cliff, glowing brighter at the edges. At top center, a star displays another, larger pinched dark shadow, this time vertically. To the left of this star is a more wispy, indistinct region.$

January 23, 2025 at 8:30 PM

Tyler

@golangandrainbows.bsky.social

We are all just stars and dust ✨

Kevin M. Gill @kevinmgill.bsky.social · Jan 23

Lanes of stars and dust.

A Hubble Telescope look at a corner of the Fireworks Galaxy (NGC 6946).

Billions of blue and red stars with lanes of murky dust.

NASA/ESA/Hubble Team/Kevin M. Gill

January 23, 2025 at 2:45 AM

Reposted by Tyler

AstroBlue82

@astroblue82.bsky.social

Picture of the Monkey Head Nebula I was able to take with my Seestar, after finally getting a break from the cloud cover. STILL trying to get my rig going, but the Seestar will have to hold me over till then

#astrophotography #astronomy