#pictured that

.thought i looked kinda cute in this

.yes definitely

.i have more than one

.this is m13

.from earth with little to no light pollution i think you would be able to see this with binoculars

.this is n159

.it looks dusty yet very clear

.here is a shot from the heart of the crab nebula

.it looks closed in on a star that is spinning 30 times every second

.this is the orion nebula

.it looks like watercolors and i think it is super gorgeous

.the cone nebula

.this one is so pretty it looks almost fake

.those are just a few of my favorites

.i had a mission a long time ago to watch on particular star for a while

.the reason i had to was because i had to see if it was still there

.eight years before i was given the mission we took a picture of a galaxy but when we went to look at it again one of the stars was gone

.heres the crazy part

.in order for a star to become a black hole it has to collapse on itself and go “supernova” in which it explodes and emits a shitton of light

.but when we went back to study the brightness of the star over time, it did get brighter but not bright enough to hit supernova

.so i had to see if it somehow created a black hole without reaching supernova or if it just became a duller star all of a sudden

.the star and lack of star is circled

.it counts as a black hole

.but not all black holes look like that

.you can find black holes in the center of galaxies 

.like the milky way

.this is from an observatory bc i was never really sent to see black holes very often so it is very low quality i apologize

.but this is the center of the milky way

.see how you cant really see a specific black circle

.yeah pretty sure thats just how it is

.this one may seem very bland but it has to be my favorite

.not only did it take a while to take but it is actually a bunch of different galaxies

.almost all of those dots and shapes are galaxies all varying in age and shape and size

.very generic picture i know