. Miracles from Heaven 🎆🎇🎆 NGC 2244 - The Rosette Nebula Imaged entirely from my backyard. The Rosette Nebula is a vast emission nebula located about 5,200 light years from Earth. The star forming region lies near a large molecular cloud in the constellation Monoceros, the Unicorn. It is closely associated with the young open star cluster NGC 2244. Equipment used: Scope - William Optics FLT 91 Camera - asi2600mc pro Filter - Optolong Astronomy Filter L - Ultimate Mount - Sky-Watcher EQ6-R Tot

The nebula NGC 5189 is beautiful – but what exactly is it? This is a planetary nebula, which doesn’t actually have anything to do with planets. Astronomers saw this type of nebula in earlier telescopes and found many indistinct, cloudy forms. They called such objects “nebulae” – Latin for clouds. Some of the fuzzy objects resembled planets, and these earned the name planetary nebulae. Planetary nebulae like the one in this Reel represent the final stage in a medium-sized star’s life. While consu

Revealing the Complexity of the Nebula in NGC 1275 with SITELLE 15/05/2018 VIDEO: Movie showing how the filamentary structure of NGC 1275 varies with wavelength. Credits: Marie-Lou Gendron-Marsolais, Julie Hlavacek-Larrondo, Laurent Drissen and Maxime Pivin-Lapointe. • Located 250 million light-years from earth, NGC 1275 is not an ordinary galaxy. It sits in the middle of the Perseus galaxy cluster, a gigantic cluster harboring thousands of galaxies in the constellation of the same name. NGC 127

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A stunningly beautiful scene of star formation unfolds in NGC 3576, situated approximately 20,000 light-years away... (Credit: ESO/G. Beccari - Video by Universal-Sci) | Universal-Sci