Astro Art of the Week

By Nancy Atkinson - August 10, 2009 09:48 AM UTC | Site News

Here's the fifth edition of our new feature, showcasing our readers' prowess with image editing software. This week's Astro Art of the Week is a conglomeration of several images created by Aaron Nako. "The blue background with vertical lines is actually a distorted and colour-adjusted picture of the Carina nebula," Aaron wrote, "and the stars in the electricity/waves are from a picture of NGC 6384 taken from the Rancho Del Sol Observatory. The grunge darker blueish bit coming from the top right-hand corner is actually our sun. The stars were Photoshop brushes that I changed a little bit."

Thanks for sharing your photo-editing wizardry Aaron! If you've got a space or astronomy image you've created and would like to share it, submit it to Nancy . We're also still mulling over what to call this new feature -- so if you have any suggestions, post your idea in the comments.

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Nancy Atkinson

Nancy Atkinson is a space journalist and author with a passion for telling the stories of people involved in space exploration and astronomy. She is currently retired from daily writing, but worked at Universe Today for 20 years as a writer and editor. She also contributed articles to The Planetary Society, Ad Astra (National Space Society), New Scientist and many other online outlets.

Her 2019 book, "Eight Years to the Moon: The History of the Apollo Missions,” shares the untold stories of engineers and scientists who worked behind the scenes to make the Apollo program so successful, despite the daunting odds against it. Her first book “Incredible Stories From Space: A Behind-the-Scenes Look at the Missions Changing Our View of the Cosmos” (2016) tells the stories of 37 scientists and engineers that work on several current NASA robotic missions to explore the solar system and beyond.

Nancy is also a NASA/JPL Solar System Ambassador, and through this program, she has the opportunity to share her passion of space and astronomy with children and adults through presentations and programs. Nancy's personal website is nancyatkinson.com