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A Scottish student has unveiled "striking" images of space he captured using a makeshift telescope in his back garden.

Bryan Shaw, a student at the University of the West of Scotland, has spent hours stargazing and gathering photographs and videos for an end-of-year project.

The fourth-year broadcast production student has managed to capture detailed images of star clusters and nebulas located light years away, such as Pleiades, Andromeda Galaxy and the Orion Nebula.

Mr Shaw - who only began taking photographs of space last year - often devotes full nights to his hobby, capturing photographs of the stars outside his home in New Cumnock, East Ayrshire.

He said: "It's time-consuming, but I really do love this. I'm planning to get a bigger telescope to advance my knowledge, and let me capture things that I can't at the moment.

"I want to take photos of individual planets, and craters on the moon - that's what I'm planning.

"My ultimate ambition is to take a photo of a nebula known as Thor's Helmet - it's absolutely stunning, and it really does look like the helmet that belongs to Thor in the Marvel movies.

"As a big Marvel fan, that has to be my big goal."

Dr Sheona Urquhart, who lectures in Physical Sciences at the Open University, told ´óÏó´«Ã½ Scotland the pictures captured "the most visually striking features of our universe".

"What I think is most exciting is that it shows that you don't need access to international, world leading observatories to achieve such incredible photographs - a reasonably straightforward set-up at home can achieve some fantastic results", she said.

All photographs copyright of Bryan Shaw.