As the founder of TWAN, he has presented some of the most breathtaking images of the starry sky at conferences the world over. He is the co-recipient of science’s most prestigious imaging honor, the Lennart Nilsson Award. Babak has had several of his images featured on NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day, and he is one of 37 artists featured in Starstruck: The Fine Art of Astrophotography.