Two telescopes, two epochs, the same nebula. You might have to stare for a little bit to fully appreciate all the movement going. Apologies to any faint stars who got deleted. I tried to remove the NICMOS PSFs from the Hubble view (which is lower resolution/blurrier)
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Judy Schmidt
it's just so achingly beautiful 😩
can confirm venus and jupiter are up there right now over modesto. also it looks way better in person go outside i'm not posting a photo
I dunno if there's much scientific value to presentations like this, but it does offer up a glimpse of the universe just whirring along on an entirely human timescale.
The name of the nebula is Gomez's Hamburger. Sorry for not including it; kind of a molasses speed stream-of-consciousness thing going on with my timeline.
little known fact: Gomez's Hamburger is zooming across the sky.
I remain in awe of the raw entropic power of a five-year-old. It feels like I do nothing but pick up little toys and rocks and bits of trash all day, carefully making sure everything is back in its place, but I never catch up to him.
(And let's not talk about getting him to help out.)
if a baby tree is a sapling, then a baby human is a bloodling
