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ESO’S LASILLA OBSERVATORY CAPTURES NGC 3572 LIKE NEVER BEFORE
ESO’S LASILLA OBSERVATORY CAPTURES NGC 3572 LIKE NEVER BEFORE Image Credit & Copyright: ESO Photo Ambassador Giacomo Beccari. CLICK image for huge view and look below for information and related...
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VARIABLE STAR RS PUPPIS AS SEEN BY HUBBLE
VARIABLE STAR RS PUPPIS AS SEEN BY HUBBLE Image Credit & Copyright: NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. CLICK image for larger view and look below for information and links. 6500 light years away in...
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ANCIENTS
Image Credit & Copyright: Shane Michael Black. CLICK image for larger view and look below for information and related links. This image comes to us from the extremely creative and talented...
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HUBBLE & SUBARU IMAGE A STELLAR BIRTH
Image Credit & Copyright: NASA, ESA, the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA) and NAOJ Here’s an image released a couple years back of the beautifully violent Sharpless 2-106 or S106 for short. This...
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GEMS IN THE BEAK OF THE SWAN
Image Credit & Copyright: Me. Before winter creeps up on us and steals away the great asterism of the Summer Triangle get out there and view some of the gems in the hot Northern hemisphere nights....
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HOW FAR IS THE MILKY WAYS FARTHEST STAR?
Image Credit & Copyright: Uniview by SCISS Data: SOHO (ESA & NASA), John Bochanski (Haverford College) and Jackie Faherty (American Museum of Natural History and Carnegie Institute’s...
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SUN IN HYDROGEN ALPHA (HA)
Image Credit & Copyright: Paul Stewart. Here’s a world class view of our home star, the Sun by Paul Stewart of Timaru, New Zealand. Just have a long look at this image and take pause in what...
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A NEWBORN SEES THE UNIVERSE
Image Credit & Copyright: Travis Rector/University of Alaska Anchorage, H. Schweiker/WIYN & NOAO/AURA/NSF Been a very busy week for me so my apologies on the slow rate of content but that...
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THE FLAMING SKULL NEBULA
Photo Credit & Copyright: Travis Rector. CLICK photo for full size and see below for links. Halloween is once again upon us and to ring in fall’s favorite holiday I believe a few “spooky” space...
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HOW FAR, HOW MANY, HOW LONG AGO?
Image Credit & Copyright: NASA Spitzer Space Telescope of the core region of the Milky Way. This post is a little long for my usual writings but I think that you will enjoy it. If nothing else,...
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Diamonds at the Feet of the Twins
Image Credit & Copyright: Mega Prime Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope (CFHT) Corporation. Sitting at the feet of the twins in the constellation Gemini are a beautifully contrasting pair of open star...
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Scattered Diamonds
Image Credit & Copyright: Jaxson Pohlman. Let’s start our week with this great night sky image from Jaxson Pohlman. This is a composite image of two separate nights of shooting. The tree line in...
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Vela Supernova Remnant (Zoom)
Images Credit & Copyright: Credit is displayed with the individual images with links to all at the bottom of the post. The Vela Supernova Remnant is one of the truly awe inspiring locations in the...
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Red Heart of the Scorpion on the Horizon
Image Credit & Copyright: Jared Blash. This image comes to us from Jared Blash and it was taken under the dark skies of Maine’s jagged coastline. The Milky Way galaxy in this image stands tall...
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A Diamond in a Sea of Gold
Images Credit & Copyright: IMAGE 1: European Southern Observatory (ESO) MPG/ESO 2.2 meter telescope at La Silla Observatory in Chile. IMAGE 2: NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. Located a fairly...
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The Busy Antlia Dwarf Galaxy
Image Credit & Copyright: NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. What a view we have here! This visually busy region of sky is known as the Antlia Dwarf Galaxy (ADG) and it’s over 4 million light years...
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Cotton Candy Dipper
Image Credit & Copyright: Me. I have been asked from time to time why I don’t show any of my own work very often and the truth is that I don’t have a lot of time and with the lack of dark sky and...
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47 Tucanae; a Classic Southern Sky Object (Zoom)
Image Credit & Copyright: Star Shadows Remote Observatory (SSRO), Rick Gilbert. For those of you that live in the southern hemisphere, this is clearly on of your favorite objects. 47 Tucanae (47...
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Late Summer’s Double Diamonds
Images Credit & Copyright: Me. What do you do when the Moon is near full and you don’t want to observe it? Look at some star systems. It’s true that even star observing benefits from dark skies...
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IRAS GHOST
Photo By: NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope (Links below). It’s October and Halloween is once again upon us and to ring in fall’s favorite holiday I believe a few “spooky” space photos are in order....
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