In this image captured by Michael Watson on September 24, 2017, the Elephant’s Trunk Nebula in Cepheus protrudes upwards into the red hydrogen emission region, from below centre. Herschel’s Garnet Star, also known as Mu Cephei, is glowing brightly orange-red at upper right. This image spans about five degrees of sky, from left to right.…
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The beautiful Rosette Nebula in Monoceros consists of a circular patch of glowing hydrogen gas and an internal star cluster, created as the hydrogen gas collapsed. Stan Noble tool this image, which was featured as the SkyNews picture of the week for November 3, 2017, in Aneroid, Saskatchewan. The image spans about two finger widths…
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This terrific image by Benjamin Law of Stouffville, Ontario shows the Leo Quartet of galaxies, which is located in the neck of Leo, the Lion. Leo is visible high in the western sky in evening during May. Other names for this group are Hickson 44 and the NGC 3190 Group. The north-up image covers 20…
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