A PAIR OF UNIVERSES OBJECT Image of Messier M81 and M82 galaxies. Both 11 million light years away. The face-on M81 galaxy seems to be a quiet body with the common slow rotation. M82 is an edge-on galaxy suffering a cataclysm inside and ejecting fiercery matter to...
NGC 2366. A DWARF GALAXY OBJECT Spiral and barred spiral galaxies are impressive bodies due to their arms that extend from the center to the outer part of the galaxies. However, there are some peculiar galaxies which are really interesting due to their strange...
ROSETTA NEBULA OBJECT The Rosetta nebula (NGC 2237) lives together with an open cluster (NGC 2244) located in the nebula ‘hole’. The young O-type stars of this cluster generate strong radiation and stellar winds which makes the nebula to glow. TECH DATA...
CRESCENT REMNANT NEBULA OBJECT The Crescent Nebula is an emission nebula in the Cygnus constellation. This nebula is bigger than the full-moon disk aparent size. The central young star (with about 25 solar mass) is expelling gases to form that huge shell with 25...
Bubble Nebula OBJECT This object is one of the more visited by amateurs. The dark nebula was first imaged at Harvard College Observatory in 1888 using chemical photographic plates and today is a popular target between digital astrophotographers. The complex of...