The Surfboard Galaxy (M108, upper right) and the Owl Nebula (M97, lower left) // David Cheng

Located near the Owl Nebula (M97) on the sky, the Surfboard Galaxy was discovered by Méchain in 1781, only three nights after he found M97. Messier himself observed it about a month later, although he didn't measure its position and so did not include it in his catalog.

William Herschel (1738-1822) independently discovered it in 1789. It wasn't until 1953 when American astronomer Owen Gingerich (1930-2023) identified it as M108.

The Owl Nebula (M97 or NGC 3587)

Tried my hand at the color wheel challenge! 🎨 Boy howdy this was a Doozy

Happy new year everyone,

Thank you for staying with me and my sheer hyper-fixation on The Owl House, Collector and his siblings specifically

So as a gift, here's the preview of the new comic I'm working on :D

Okay. You know what? I’ll make peace with The Collector’s conclusion.

ON THE CONDITION that he meets all our silly little Collector OC’s during his time in space and they all become a group and go on adventures together.

seeker of stars

Light Trails 🌟🌠

Found out that Acht actually has a modeled eye and earrings so now I headcanon them with just one eye which they lost during an accident when they worked for the Octarian Army.

I FINALLY caught up on the owl house season 2 and, oh my god what the hell. It was so good but also what the FUCK Dana

Take some misc doodles + an oc while i sort out my feelings over the next 5-10 business days.

Phoebe travels through the woods

The Owl Nebula, M97 // Scotty Bishop

The name comes from its distinctive shape. When the original star collapsed, it expelled matter in two opposing directions. Those two jets are almost aligned with our line-of-sight, but are just slightly off. The dust in the jets blocks some of the light in the nebula, giving it the appearance of two dark eyes.

Although it was discovered by Méchain in 1781, it was William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse (1800-1867) who drew this nebula in 1848 and noted it's owl-like appearance: "Two stars considerably apart in the central region, dark penumbra round each spiral arrangement, with stars as apparent centres of attraction. Stars sparkling in it; resolvable."

Here's his original drawing! It's a very cute owl! 🦉

My mother thinks there’s gonna be a “Mommy Collector” so I drew her

Illustrations by Amandine Delauney. From Le Livre de la nuit by Caroline Fait (Éditions de La Martinière, 2021).

It meant a lot to me to see Phillip try to beg Luz for mercy, and I'll try my best to put it into words here.

I'm working on my own magical girl series, Premiere Nebula, right now, where the main magical girl, Omega, meets one of the main villainesses of her universe, Alarice. Alarice doesn't seem at all like the stories Omega has heard of someone who kills other magical girls just to gain their power, and Alarice tells her that's because she has a curse that makes her behave that way. Since Omega is new to the job and naive and her mentor has a weird curse, too, she believes Alarice when she tells her this. Alarice also tells her that the dark magical girl who accompanies her on her missions to kill those like her, Nuage, isn't cursed to do this and just does it for her own gain. Omega believes this too.

Until she starts putting two and two together and noticing that while Alarice always seems to be at the top of her game in the way her cursed mentor does...Nuage acts much, much differently. The more Omega sees her, the weaker she seems to be, and the more she notices that compared to Alarice...Nuage is just a kid. Alarice tries to spin it as her trying to get rid of an actual, non-cursed magical threat, but Omega learns from another source that she's gotten it all wrong. Alarice is someone who chose the path of evil, who spreads curses, and Nuage is what will happen to Omega if she keeps trusting her. She's a formerly trusting, naive magical girl hypnotized and cursed into being a shell of herself, doomed to keep absorbing magic from others like her but never fully recover her strength, because she also functions as Alarice's emergency power supply. Except it's been five years, and Nuage isn't able to keep this up anymore, the brainwashing or her strength--when Alarice taps into her power one time in a desperate attempt to defeat the heroes, Omega knows it'll be her last if she doesn't do something about it. By now, she's found out that the person who told her the truth about the whole situation was Nuage's former magical girl partner, someone who genuinely cared for her before Alarice snatched her away.

And Omega finds she has to make a decision. Give up on the idea of a person she thought was her friend, or save a real person in danger so someone else can be reunited with theirs? But then again, to her, it's no decision at all, really.

I've always imagined Omega's last real interaction with Alarice as a friend become they become full enemies to be something like Luz and Phillip's. One desperately begging to the other, hoping they'll want to believe one last time, because that's all they need to worm themselves back into their lives. Except neither Omega nor Luz fall for this, not because they're more jaded or meaner people now, but because they've been put through too many of their enemies' lies. And they realize that forgiving their enemy, showing what others assume would be mercy, would just be giving into one more.

It is in rejecting that route and walking away, I think, that their true heroism comes through.

Feel the sun at your finger tips.

I FORGOT WHAT THE CONTEXT IS BUT THIS IS SENDING ME