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After 30 years of observing, I’ve compiled a list of some of my favorite deep-sky objects. These look best with a large ...

The Cocoon Nebula, an emission nebula spanning 12 arcminutes (1/5 degree) in the constellation Cygnus, is approximately 4,000 light-years distant and possesses a diameter of 15 light-years. This ...

The Gum Nebula is an emission nebula almost 1400 light-years away. It's home to an object known as "God's Hand" among the faithful. The rest of us call it CG 4. Many objects in space take on ...

Emission nebulae are the subject of many of the most spectacular astrophotographs published in the last decade. Although there are many subcategories of nebulae, they all consist of interstellar gas ...

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An illustrative set of 8 individual WEAVE LIFU emission-line images of the Ring Nebula. The colour in each panel tracks the brightness of emission, with brown-red being the most intense, shading ...

The Lagoon Nebula, a vast cloud of gas and dust located roughly 5,200 light-years from Earth, has been captured in a highly ...

A massive cloud of dust and glowing gases speckled with newborn stars in the shape of a seagull shines in a stunning image captured by a telescope in Chile. A new photo from the European Southern ...

NGC 261 blooms a brilliant ruby red against a myriad of stars in this new image from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. Discovered on Sept. 5, 1826 by Scottish astronomer James Dunlop, this nebula is ...

Hubble Telescope image of the Horsehead Nebula. Credit: T.A.Rector (NOIRLab/NSF/AURA) & Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA/NASA) Nebulae are all but impossible to spot in the night sky, but you'd never ...

Figure 2: An illustrative set of 8 individual WEAVE LIFU emission-line images of the Ring Nebula. The colour in each panel tracks the brightness of emission, with brown-red being the most intense, ...