My photos taken with my telescope by Léo

Hello, I will present to you my pictures of space which I took with my telescope and my camera. 

Stars : 

The Swan Nebula, or M17, is a nebula that is a kind of big cloud of dust where the stars are born.

The Orion Nebula, also called M42, is another nebula with a high rate of formation of stars. It is visible with the naked eye and very well with binoculars or a telescope.

M13 is a globular cluster, a concentration of 1 million stars ! In 1974, we sent a message for the possible aliens who may live there, but we must wait 45,000 years for the potential answer…

Galaxies : 

The Pinwheel Galaxy, also named M101, is a really big galaxy : it measures 2,000,000,000,000,000,000 km long ! It looks like our galaxy, the Milky Way, that can't be photographed because the Earth is inside it.

The Whirlpool Galaxy is composed of two interacting galaxies, M51A and M51B. They will merge in several millions years…

Solar System : 

The Moon is the natural satellite of the Earth. I photographed the craters, created by asteroids which fell on the surface.

Jupiter is the largest planet of the solar system : you can place 1 300 Earths inside this giant planet. 

Vocabulary :

binoculars = jumelles

dust = poussière

fell = est tombé

merge = fusionner

pinwheel = moulin à vent

rate = taux

sent = envoyé

swan = cygne

whirlpool = tourbillon