This is a narrowband, Hubble Palette (SHO), closeup view of NGC 3576: This is an emission nebula, which means it generates its own light, and is 100 light years across. This nebula is about...
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IC 443 – The Jellyfish Nebula
This is a closeup view of IC 443: This nebula is a supernova remnant with the neutron star CXOU J061705.3+222127 causing the nebula to glow. This is a narrowband image and uses the Hubble...
SH2-188 – The Dolphin Nebula
This is a widefield view of Sh2-188: The nebula is actually an asymmetrical planetary nebula. It is located about 850 light years from us in the constellation Cassiopeia. There’s not much information available about...
Spaghetti Nebula – Sh2-240
This is the Spaghetti Nebula, or SH2-240, discovered in 1952: This is a very dim nebula, which makes it difficult to observe. The nebula is a supernova remnant estimated to be about 3,000 light...
Jupiter and Saturn Conjunction
This is Saturn and Jupiter along with its moons as they appeared December 20, 2020: Saturn is at the upper-left and Jupiter and three of its moons are at teh lower-right of the image....
AR 2786 and Friends
The Sun is sporting three sunspots in this image – the Sun hasn’t been this active in years: The sunspots are as follows: AR2786 on the far left, AR2785 next, followed by AR2783 on...
Giant Sunspot AR2788 Gets Companion AR2799
It looks like AR2788 has a companion now: AR2799: The new sunspot appeared overnight – AR2788 is at the bottom right and AR2779 is to the left. These two sunspots are part of solar...
Sunspot AR2778
This is sunspot AR2778, at the lower-right part of the image, near the logo: This sunspot is huge – about 100,000km across and it is made up of about 12 cores. According to Spaceweather.com,...
Transit of Mercury Across the Sun – November 2019
This image is a composite of Mercury transiting the Sun during November 11, 2019: This image is made up of a number of images taken using the Slooh.com Solar telescope during the approximately five...
Comet Neowise Using Slooh.com
This is the famous comet Neowise, or comet C/2020 F3, using aSlooh.com telescope: This was taken using Slooh.com’s Canary Three telescope which as an OSC color camera attached to it. This post provides you...
