This is the waxing crescent moon as it appeared on September 9, 2021. Many of the features you see on the moon are impact craters – there are about 9,000 of them. The darker...
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Sun: Huge Active Regions
This is the lower half of the sun as it appeared on September 7, 2021: The sunspots shown here are the biggest we have seen in many years. They are AR 2866 on the...
Sun: July 22 2021 – 6 Active Regions
This is the sun as it appeared on July 22, 2021: The surface features six active regions – we haven’t seen that many active regions at once in a very long time. Here’s an...
Sun: AR2837
This is the sun on June 29, 2021 featuring sunspot AR2037: The sunspot developed today, is unipolar, and is made up of just one active region. This sunspot joins two others on the lower...
Eagle and Omega Nebulae
This is a widefield, narrowband view of the Eagle Nebula (upper orange and blue nebula), or M16, and the Omega Nebula, lower blue nebula, or M17: The Eagle Nebula is about 5,700 light years...
Messier 8 and Messier 20 Widefield
Messier 8, the Lagoon Nebula, is the red nebula at the bottom of the image and Messier 20, the Trifid Nebula is the red and blue nebula in the upper half of the image:...
Globular Cluster NGC 3201
This is NGC 3201 – a globular cluster located in Vela: There is a black hole at the center of this cluster found in 2018. This image is made up of a total of...
NGC 300
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...
Barnard 252 – the Dolphin Nebula
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...
NGC 6888 and surrounding region
This is the Crescent Nebula, or NGC 6888, and the surrounding region: NGC 6888 is usually presented on its own, but this widefield view highlights the large nebula in the surrounding region. This was...
