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A remarkable image of the Milky Way’s swirling colours over Easter Island’s famed Moai statues was captured recently by photographer Josh Dury, a seasoned astrophotographer and contributor to Space.com. During his trip to Easter Island for last month’s annular solar eclipse, Dury took advantage of the island’s pristine night sky to photograph the ancient statues […]
This photo of WR 134, the Rising Phoenix, shows mapped colors for different ionized elements. The narrowband image shows H-alpha emissions as green, S-II emissions are mapped to the red channel, and O-III emissions are blue. Through his fantastic images, Finnish astrophotographer J-P Metsavainio shows how photos can be breathtakingly beautiful when art meets science. […]