Day 17 What floats your boat?
Stargazing with my family.
Staring up at the beauty and eternity of the night sky brings me so much joy and peace. This is intensified when I stargaze with my family.
I started making up constellations when I was teenager. Travelling to different continents, it's been a comfort and delight to see my constellations over and over from different earthly viewpoints.
My sister, brother and niece have joined me in creating different constellations. One of ours share similar stars but all unique:
My brother 's smile from his happy face, is the trunk of my sister's elephant and the shell of my snail named Confucius.
My sister's gummy bear's left ear is the nose of my teddy bear. It's also the stinger of my niece's wasp.
And my mouse can be seen in so many different ways. Each family member seems to see it from a different perspective. How true for more than stars.
Plus there is dancing man low on the horizon and downward dog one leg up deep in the milky way.
The beauty and magic of stars, shooting and still. The deep connection one can feel looking at them in company.
It am full of gratitude, awe and love.
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@_ethereal_astro Known by many names and one of the largest star-forming regions in the Milky Way galaxy: M17, Omega, Horseshoe, Checkmark, Swan and in the southern hemisphere, Lobster. This nebula is a vast interstellar cloud of dust and gas giving birth to our galaxy’s youngest star clusters, at only 1 million years old. Many of the young stars in this cluster are impossible to see however because of the gas and dust that surrounds them; with some pockets measuring ten times larger than our solar system. Spanning some 15 light-years in diameter and found in the Sagittarius Arm of the hazy starlit band of our Milky Way and easily visible with a pair of binoculars, you’ll be gazing at deep-sky wonders in the next spiral arm inward toward the direction of the star-rich center of our Milky Way galaxy. The Omega Nebula geometry is similar to its winter cousin, The Orion Nebula; except that the Omega Nebula is viewed edge-on, rather than face-on. This image as viewed spans 3 degrees of the Southern sky.
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