Category: Photos

This is NGC 300, a spiral galaxy in Sculptor: This galaxy is estimated to be about 6.07 million light years from us. At the core of this galaxy is a binary system made up...

This is the Dolphin Nebula, or Barnard 252: This dark nebula is actually covers the whole image, with the darkest part being the dolphin itself. The rest of this dark nebula gives the entire...

This is the sun as it appeared on May 14 with two sunspots on the surface, AR 2822 (the upper sunspot) and AR 2823 (the lower one): These sunspots each produced a weak CME...

The sun is sporting several active regions: AR2818 is near the center; AR2820 to the right of center and AR 2816, which erupted and produced a CME on April 21, on the far right....

This is the sun as it appeared on April 21, 2021: Sunspot AR 2816 is at the bottom, center of the image. This sunspot erupted on April 19, producing an M1 class solar flare,...

This is a widefield view of Sh2-308: The nebula surrounds a pre-supernova Wolf-Rayet star named EZ Canis Majoris – it is the star with the diffraction spikes on it in the image. The nebula...

This is a wide field view of the Carnia Nebula, or NGC 3372: This was shot in narrowband using H-alpha, SII, and OIII filters. Here’s a link to the Wikipedia article about this nebula....

This is a narrowband image of IC 1805: This emission nebula is about 7,500 light years from us. The energy to light up this nebula is coming from the stars at the center of...