Stewart Tansley🌻🔭

@dswtan.bsky.social

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Retired. Full time astrophotographer and other imaging fun. Ex-Academic Partnerships at Amazon, Facebook Research, Yahoo Labs, Microsoft Research. And UK.

Bright red-orange-yellow swirl of nebulous clouds surrounding a cone-shaped dark shadow pointing upwards, surrounded by blue and orange stars, fading to a pale green-blue background at the edges of the frame.
A bright space nebula shaped like the shell of a crab dominating the center, surrounded by many stars on the black background. The nebula is an intricate spidery web of pale pink, magenta, and blue, over a white cloudy shape of the crab shell.
Astrophotograph. Predominantly blue nebula fills the wide-angle 16:9 ratio frame, superimposed with a strong bird wing-like red-orange-yellow shape delineating the so-called "wall". Peppered with tiny stars.
Astrophotograph. Predominantly orange and blue jellyfish-shaped nebula fills the frame, with an intricate tangle of nebulosity throughout. A large bright orange star called Propus is at the bottom center.
Astrophotograph. Very large bright gold oval spiral of distant stars in the center. Faintly blue arms at the extremities, flecked with red-magenta hydrogen clouds. Background is black, speckled with multicolored stars. Two small white ovals are superimposed, the smaller being the M32 satellite galaxy and the larger the M110 satellite galaxy.
Astrophotograph. Very large bright spiral of stars in the center. Faintly blue arms, speckled with both magenta hydrogen clouds and green-blue oxygen clouds. Zoomed-in, many stars are visible in the galaxy itself. Background is black, speckled with multicolored stars. Some tiny specks of other distant galaxies are sprinkled amongst the stars.
Astrophotograph. Bright spiral of stars in the center, with bluish arms and speckled with pink hydrogen clouds. Background is black, speckled with multicolored stars. Spirals anticlockwise. Pink patches are more prominent relative to the others.
Astrophotograph. Bright golden sliver at an angle across the center, slightly bulging in the middle, with a prominent jagged frilly black line all through the longer axis. Background is black, speckled with multicolored stars. A tiny misshapen spiral second galaxy is just visible top right.
Astrophotograph. Large oval galaxy in the center is mottled bluish with lots of swirly detail and pinkish specks. The core is brighter and yellowish. Background is black, speckled with multicolored stars.
Astrophotograph. Galaxy in the center is bluish with lots of swirly detail. Shape of a fiddlehead like on a fern, or a teardrop. Background is black, speckled with multicolored stars.
Closeup of the "Pillars of Creation", a colorful astronomical nebula in the same colors as originally used by the Hubble Space Telescope.