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About 5,000 light years away in the constellation Canis Major is the Wolf-Rayet star EZ Canis Majoris. The bubble shape ...
17/10/2026

About 5,000 light years away in the constellation Canis Major is the Wolf-Rayet star EZ Canis Majoris.
The bubble shape around the star is ionised hydrogen. It is known as the Dolphin Head Nebula and is catalogued as Sharpless 2-308.
The star causing the bubble will soon go supernova.

NGC 1365 is the Great Barred Spiral Galaxy in the consellation Fornax. It is one of the highlights of the southern night...
16/10/2026

NGC 1365 is the Great Barred Spiral Galaxy in the consellation Fornax. It is one of the highlights of the southern night skies.
It is 56illion light years away.

NGC 1300 is a beautiful barred spiral galaxy found in the constellation Eridanus. It is 69 million light years away and ...
16/10/2026

NGC 1300 is a beautiful barred spiral galaxy found in the constellation Eridanus. It is 69 million light years away and it takes 130,000 years for light to travel from one side to the other..

On 1st September 2026, the spiral galaxy NGC 7331 hosted what appeared to be a new star.When a star dies, it can slowly ...
16/10/2026

On 1st September 2026, the spiral galaxy NGC 7331 hosted what appeared to be a new star.
When a star dies, it can slowly expand and create beautiful patterns of gas we call Planetary Nebula. I have recently posted several photos of these nebula.
But sometimes a stars death is catastrophic. These violent endings are called Supernova. These are, for a short time, the brightest objects in the universe, and can appear as a new star in a distant galaxy.

The compact galaxy cluster known as Stephan's Quintet. Found in the constellation Pegasus, it consists of four gravitati...
15/10/2026

The compact galaxy cluster known as Stephan's Quintet. Found in the constellation Pegasus, it consists of four gravitationally bound galaxies about 300 million light years away. The fifth galaxy, NGC 7320, is only about 40 million light years distant.

Not far from the Small Magellanic Cloud is the Large Magellanic Cloud. Catalogued as PGC 17224, is lies 163,000 light ye...
09/10/2026

Not far from the Small Magellanic Cloud is the Large Magellanic Cloud. Catalogued as PGC 17224, is lies 163,000 light years away and spans the Dorado and Mensa constellations. It is visible with the naked eye in the southern skies.
This image shows only a small quadrant of the galaxy. At the centre of this image is NGC2070, the Tarantula Nebula.

The Small Magellanic Cloud is a Dwarf Irregular type galaxy spanning the Tucana and Hydrus constellations. Catalogued as...
09/10/2026

The Small Magellanic Cloud is a Dwarf Irregular type galaxy spanning the Tucana and Hydrus constellations. Catalogued as NGC 292, it is one of two satellite galaxies visible with the naked eye in the southern skies. It is about 200,000 light years away.
This photo reveals some of the reflection and emission nebula within the galaxy.

This unusual galaxy, known as the Cartwheel Galaxy and PGC2248, lies more the 400 million light years away in the conste...
05/10/2026

This unusual galaxy, known as the Cartwheel Galaxy and PGC2248, lies more the 400 million light years away in the constellation Sculptor. It's unusual shape was caused by another nearby galaxy passing through it about 250 million years ago.

Located in the constellation Tucana, the globular cluster NGC104 is one of the jewells of the southern night sky.
29/09/2026

Located in the constellation Tucana, the globular cluster NGC104 is one of the jewells of the southern night sky.

Another Seestar S50 acquired image. This is NGC6888, also known as the Crescent Nebula, located about 5000 light years ...
20/09/2026

Another Seestar S50 acquired image. This is NGC6888, also known as the Crescent Nebula, located about 5000 light years away in the constellation Cygnus. It is a Wolf-Rayet star.

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