Originally from the island of St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands Julio Encarnacion received his Bachelor of Science in Business at Lynn University in Boca Raton, Florida. The purpose of this website is to educate and inspire you. Feel free to contact us with your questions and please, visit our store for posters, mugs, and many other unique gifts from this talented photographer.

“Telescopes are in some ways like time machines. They reveal galaxies so far away that their light has taken billions of years to reach us. We in astronomy have an advantage in studying the universe, in that we can actually see the past. We owe our existence to stars, because they make the atoms of which we are formed. So, if you are romantic you can say we are literally starstuff. If you’re less romantic, you can say we’re the nuclear waste from the fuel that makes stars shine. We’ve made so many advances in our understanding. A few centuries ago, the pioneer navigators learned the size and shape of our Earth, and the layout of the continents. We are now just learning the dimensions and ingredients of our entire cosmos and can, at last, make some sense of our cosmic habitat.”

— Sir Martin Rees