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The Orion Nebula
The Orion Nebula is one of the brightest nebulae and is visible to the naked eye in the night sky. It’s the closest region of massive star formation to Earth. This is a composite of over 80 images...
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A Cosmic Prawn
Prawn Nebula, IC 4628, is an emission nebula located around 6000 light-years from Earth in the constellation of Scorpius. Though the nebula stretches across 250 light-years, covering slice of sky four...
View ArticleSunrise Over the ELT
This timelapse video show the Sun rising behind the construction site for the Extremely Large Telescope at the European Southern Observatory in the Altacama Desert in Chile. If you look carefully, you...
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Psyche
Back in 2005, the New Horizons spacecraft was launched. Ten years later, it flew by Pluto, and our view of the planet sharpened from an almost-featureless blob to a world with mountains and plains. In...
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A Grand Design Galaxy
This galaxy is the beautiful multi-armed NGC 7424, seen almost directly face-on. It’s around 40 million light-years in the southern sky constellation Grus (the Crane). It’s an example of a “grand...
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Caldwell 70
Caldwell 70 (aka NGC 300) is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Sculptor. It is one of the closest galaxies to the Local Group, and probably lies between us and a more distant group of galaxies, the...
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Messier 104
Messier 104 (aka the Sombrero Galaxy) is a favorite sky view of mine. This picture was taken by the ESO’s Very Large Telescope in 2000. Image Credit: ESO / P. Barthel Acknowledgments: Mark Neeser...
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NGC 7424
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The Spare Tire Nebula
When observed with a smaller amateur telescope, this particular planetary nebula looks like a ring of material, with a star shining in the middle of the hole. Hence, the of nickname IC 5148 is the...
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The Darkness Before Some Stars Form
What used to be considered holes in the sky is now known to astronomers as dark molecular clouds. One of the most notable of these dark absorption nebulae is a cloud toward the constellation Ophiuchus...
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Watch This Space
These dark areas are small parts of a huge dark nebula known as the Coalsack, one of the better known dark objects “visible” to the naked eye. The nebula is located about 600 light-years away in the...
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NGC 1807
NGC 1807 is a spiral galaxy about 80 million light-years from Earth in the constellation of Cetus. The apparent menacing red glow in this false color image actually corresponds to clouds of cold...
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Thor’s Helmet
NGC 2359 (aka Thor’s Helmet) is an emission nebula in the constellation Canis Major. The nebula is about 15,000 light-years away and 30 light-years across. The central star is an extremely hot giant...
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Shapley 1
This is Shapley 1 (aka the Fine Ring Nebula), an unusual planetary nebula. Planetary nebulae form after some dying stars that have expanded into a red giant phase eject a shell of gas as they evolve...
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NGC 3521
The large spiral galaxy NGC 3521 is in the constellation of Leo about 35 million light-years away. Image Credit: ESO
View ArticleZooming into a Young Star HH 1177
This video from a wide view of the Milky Way into the Large Magellanic Cloud 160,000 light-years away, and on to the young star system HH 1177 within the LHC. HH 1177 is the first star system outside...
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