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Dan Hall

NGC 6188, also known as the Rim Nebula, is an emission nebula located about 4,000 light years away in the constellation Ara.
It is a star-forming nebula sculpted by massive, young stars that have formed there in the last few million years.
The bright open cluster NGC 6193, visible to the naked eye, is responsible for a region of reflection nebulosity within NGC 6188.
NGC 6164, also known as the Dragon's Egg Nebula, is a planetary nebula located between 4,000 and 6,000 light years away.
Captured on Vespera II using multi night mosaics captured at different times and edited in PixInsight from over 12 hours of data. #astronomy #astrophotography #nebula

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Nicole Sharp

A Stellar Look at NGC 602

The young star cluster NGC 602 sits some 200,000 light years away in the Small Magellanic Cloud. Seen here in near- and mid-infrared, the cluster is a glowing cradle of star forming conditions similar to the early universe. A large nebula, made up of multicolored dust and gas, surrounds the star cluster. Its dusty finger-like pillars could be an example of Rayleigh-Taylor instabilities or plumes shaped by energetic stellar jets. (Image credit: NASA/ESA/CSA/JWST; via Colossal)

The star cluster NGC 602, as seen by instruments on the JWST.
#astronomy#fluidDynamics#fluidsAsArt
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grobi

Star Formation in the Pacman Nebula
* Image Credit & Copyright: Juan Montilla (AAE)
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Explanation:
You'd think the Pacman Nebula would be eating stars, but actually it is forming them. Within the nebula, a cluster's young, massive stars are powering the pervasive nebular glow. The eye-catching shapes looming in the featured portrait of NGC 281 are sculpted dusty columns and dense Bok globules seen in silhouette, eroded by intense, energetic winds and radiation from the hot cluster stars. If they survive long enough, the dusty structures could also be sites of future star formation. Playfully called the Pacman Nebula because of its overall shape, NGC 281 is about 10,000 light-years away in the constellation Cassiopeia. This sharp composite image was made through narrow-band filters in Spain in mid 2024. It combines emissions from the nebula
's hydrogen and oxygen atoms to synthesize red, green, and blue colors. The scene spans well over 80 light-years at the estimated distance of NGC 281.
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NGC_281
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bok_glob
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2025 March 26 A starfield dominated by a large nebula is pictured. The center is blue and the perimeter is red. Many dark dust pillars are visible. Please see the explanation for more detailed information. Star Formation in the Pacman Nebula * Image Credit & Copyright: Juan Montilla (AAE) Explanation: You'd think the Pacman Nebula would be eating stars, but actually it is forming them. Within the nebula, a cluster's young, massive stars are powering the pervasive nebular glow. The eye-catching shapes looming in the featured portrait of NGC 281 are sculpted dusty columns and dense Bok globules seen in silhouette, eroded by intense, energetic winds and radiation from the hot cluster stars. If they survive long enough, the dusty structures could also be sites of future star formation. Playfully called the Pacman Nebula because of its overall shape, NGC 281 is about 10,000 light-years away in the constellation Cassiopeia. This sharp composite image was made through narrow-band filters in Spain in mid 2024. It combines emissions from the nebula's hydrogen and oxygen atoms to synthesize red, green, and blue colors. The scene spans well over 80 light-years at the estimated distance of NGC 281. Authors & editors: Robert Nemiroff (MTU) & Jerry Bonnell (UMCP) NASA Official: Amber Straughn Specific rights apply. NASA Web Privacy, Accessibility, Notices; A service of: ASD at NASA / GSFC, NASA Science Activation & Michigan Tech. U.
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JWalters

Winter hasn't been great for me to snap pictures. Between the brutally cold, cloudy weather and re-configuring some of my setup, it just didn't happen much. However, on 3/9 I managed to do a quick capture and process M42 - The Great Orion Nebula before it disappears for the summer. This shot is a stack of 40x60sec exposures. Shot using my TSO130 scope with a ZWO2600MC camera. Enjoy -

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M42 Orion Nebula
#lightbucketastro#nebula#planewave
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Angerman 🦅

Hobby update! 🔭🛸👾

Last week some clear nights; and with my second set I didn’t knew what to target and shoot. So kinda was hopping around and found this very very very faint target. Didn’t knew what it was; had to look it up.

Ultimately I had to do 600 second and 1200 second 🫣 subs. Yeah. That’s 20 minutes for one shot. And that a challenge I didn’t tackle before.

But. Here she is: CTB-1 Supernova remnant in HOO (Garlic Nebula)

William Optics RedCat 61 WIFD
ZWO AM3, ZWO EAF, ZWO ASI 120MM mini, ASIAir Pro
69x 600" @ Gain 252 -10c
21x1200" @ Gain 252 -10c
20 Flats + darkflats
40 Darks (600/1200")

#astrophotography#space#supernova
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