#glaxies

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Star cluster NGC 6520 and the gecko-shaped dark cloud Barnard 86

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Too many to count: This image shows just a small section of a large photographic plate depicting hundreds of galaxies in or near the Virgo Cluster. It was made using the du Pont telescope at Las Campanas Observatory, in Chile, in 1980.

In the late 1970s and early 1980s, Allan Sandage, a onetime assistant to Hubble, and his collaborators conducted the first exhaustive survey of the Virgo Cluster, a bundle of galaxies that comprise the heart of the supercluster containing our own Milky Way. To do this, the astronomers made 67 enormous, 20-inch-square photographic plates, which together produced a catalogue of 2,096 galaxies. The image above shows just a small fraction of one plate, which Sandage made at Las Campanas Observatory, in Chile, in 1980. He painstakingly located and measured each galaxy one-by-one, noting their catalog number and magnitude directly onto the plate in red and green ink.

[whisper-of-the-snowflake]

Every star is a soul. When a star dies, someone is born.

[october29vibes]

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[spaced-out-stars]

Galaxies featuring myself

[photobycate]

Colliding galaxies bursting into chromatic storms; supernovae exploding into shards and ribbons of light. Huge rolling boiling volcanic eruptions hurtling through the cosmos, effulgent trails of smoke and fire emanating from their wake. Sabers of light dancing across the night sky in a combative Star Wars duel. Great tentacled luminescent phantasms appeared from the deep darkness of space. Radiant rockets of light shot up through the sky and burst into green iridescent fronds of light.

Sit back with a cool drink and a good friend, put your feet up and enjoy the mesmerizing colorful conflagration of the annual pre-Fourth of July Astoria Park Fireworks extravaganza!

Brought to you by, Cate Franklyn 🙂

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    Stupendous Eye-Popping Crowd-Pleasing Pyrotechnics Colliding galaxies bursting into chromatic storms; supernovae exploding into shards and ribbons of light. Huge rolling boiling volcanic eruptions hurtling through the cosmos, effulgent trails of smoke and fire emanating from their wake.

[my-adventure-begins-here]

Never apologize for burning too brightly 
Or collapsing into yourself every night
That is how galaxies are made ~ Tyler Kent White