Roy Starks

Galaxy cluster MACS0416. Home to "Mothra", an extremely distant star that is magnified by a factor of at least 4,000 times due to gravitational lensing. 🔭 🧪

The winner of the 2022 Astronomy Photographer of the Year contest was this picture of Comet Leonard, called Disconnection Event. (Image credit Gherard Rhemann)

my favorite jwst images from 2024 🌌

The heart of our galaxy, shrouded in dense clouds of dust, reveals its tightly packed starfields only through the penetrating view of infrared light. Credit: NASA, ESA, Greg T. Bacon (STScI)

Merry Christmas! This is my interpretation of the Christmas Tree Nebula, located near the constellation Orion. Five hours of integration time. Gear: Skywatcher Esprit 100, ZWO AM5, ASI2600MM, ASIAir Plus, EAF, EFW Processing: Siril, Lightroom, PhotoShop #astrophotography #christmas #astro

Amazing! VISTA’s infrared view of the Cat’s Paw Nebula... (Credit: ESO, J. Emerson, VISTA - Acknowledgment- Cambridge Astronomical Survey Unit)

A list of sorely missed Victorian-era slang… Got the morbs = temporary sadness Gigglemug = always smiling Scandal water = tea Bitch the pot = pour the tea Sauce-box = mouth Cupid’s kettle drums = breasts Dash my wig = OMG Tight as a boiled owl = drunk Poked up = embarrassed Not up to dick = unwell

Some more slang used in Victorian times… Killing the canary = avoiding work Afternoonified = smart Mutton shunter = police That dab’s in quod = that ruffian’s in prison Chuckaboo = a close friend Muff = a silly man Gropusses = pockets Daddles = hands Bacon-faced blunderbuss = full-faced ignoramus

Detailed view of Phobos, one of the two moons of Mars Cr: NASA

Super rare magenta aurora in the sky over Finland ✨

Saturn briefly covered by the moon. One of the most difficult shots

Trillion star galaxy... 💫💫💫 The Great Andromeda Galaxy 🌌

for anyone who needed to see the sun smiling today

A large eruption of plasma was observed off the east limb beginning at 03:55 UTC (Dec 17). A narrow, easterly directed CME is currently visible in updated coronagraph imagery. SolarHam.com

Yikes! This massive cloud of hydrogen gas and carbon dust is called ‘Lynd’s Dark Nebula 43’. For obvious reasons, it’s also known as the Cosmic Bat Nebula, and I for one am very glad that it’s at least 500 light years away (photo; Jarrod Koh / www.theguardian.com/science/gall...

just remember this isn’t earth… it’s a COMET!!

Orion Rising Over Mount Śnieżka

The Hourglass Nebula |HUBBLE |

IC1396 Elephant trunk nebula in Cepheus constellation by 📷 nebula images of

Devil's Tower Nebula

M51 - the Whirlpool Galaxy (Credit: NASA, ESA, S. Beckwith (STScI), and the Hubble Heritage Team - STScI/AURA)

Messier 63, the Sunflower Galaxy |NASA|

The Spider Nebula | NASA

The WITCH HEAD NEBULA

Spaghetti Nebula - Supernova Remnant

this is probably one of my favorite hubble images of all time 🌌

The Statue of Liberty Nebula is a large, bright emission nebula located approximately 9,000 light-years away in the constellation Carina.

nasa Diaries from an astronaut ✍️⁣.

Jupiter's moon Io in true color

This is one of my favorite vertical panoramas I have ever shot! It was taken in Southern Patagonia in the heart of Torres del Paine National Park with the Milky Way in the sky above. I shot it at 24mm and combined 5 horizontal images, stacked vertically. #art #photography #astro

The Milky Way over the Avenue of Baobabs, Madagascar. Photo credit: Amirreza Kamkar

i think about this quote a lot

Overwhelming beauty... These aptly named Pillars of Creation at the heart of the Eagle Nebula are part of an active star-forming region in the nebula and hide newborn stars in their columns (Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI/Joseph DePasquale, Alyssa Pagan, Anton M. Koekemoer)

This is a true 'once-in-a-lifetime shot. A meteor and Milky Way galaxy in the same frame

Aurora over Monument Valley, Arizona 🇺🇸

The beauty of galaxy 🌌✨

There's always a good side in almost anything. For instance, we're having cold blackouts again because of Russians. It's the 3rd winter that they have tried to strip us of electricity and heating. But. It's just the time to unwrap the telescope and fly across the universe all night long.

"Life is hard and so am i" is one of the wildest opening lines of all time

The Carina Nebula