JRWjr Astrophotography
Jimmy is Professor of Astronomy and Physics at Colorado Mountain College in Steamboat Springs, Colorado. He has been an avid astronomer since childhood and has enjoyed photographing the heavens for more than 30 years. His photographs have been seen worldwide on websites such as NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day, CNN.com and Spaceweather.com. Now you can enjoy these pictures in your home or office, too.
Astrophotography by Jimmy Westlake
(Far left) “Gateway” At night, Delicate Arch seems like a giant gateway to the stars. (Top) “VLA Polar Trails” - The rotation of the Earth created concentric arcs over an 80-foot dish of the Very Large Array of radio telescopes near Socorro, New Mexico. (Bottom right) - “The Christmas Star” - Venus sits atop this snow-covered spruce tree. (Bottom left) “Comet Hale-Bopp” - The biggest, brightest comet that most people alive today have ever seen blazed across our sky in the spring of 1997.
