Brent Bowen Space

Brent Bowen Space Brent Bowen is an internationally recognized astrophotographer known for his artistic images. He images from his remote observatory in southern Utah.

This is the companion pieces to the other Western Veil Nebula. The full nebula is about 6x the width of the Moon. It's t...
05/14/2026

This is the companion pieces to the other Western Veil Nebula. The full nebula is about 6x the width of the Moon. It's too bad this can't be seen naked-eye.

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The Western Veil Nebula is part of a Supernova Remnant. One of my favorite images - I've printed the 48" x 48". There's ...
05/14/2026

The Western Veil Nebula is part of a Supernova Remnant. One of my favorite images - I've printed the 48" x 48". There's so much going on.
This was images over 3 nights with just short of 20 hours of exposure time.
Come check out my images at this weekend's Salt Lake Art Show.

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05/12/2026

Wouldn’t it be cool to be able to fly at several times the speed of light through nebulas thousand of light years from earth?! Sadly, it’s not possible - but I was able to simulate it using my astrophotography.

There were several steps involved, with lots of trial and error. 3D in Adobe After Affects is cool. 🙂



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The Soul Nebula in two halves. The warm colors are Hydrogen and Sulphur. The pale blue is Oxygen. This is one of the mor...
05/12/2026

The Soul Nebula in two halves. The warm colors are Hydrogen and Sulphur. The pale blue is Oxygen. This is one of the more popular objects to image - it’s large and bright.



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The Rosette Nebula. One of the easier nebulas to image, because it big & bright. 130 light years wide and 5200 light yea...
05/10/2026

The Rosette Nebula. One of the easier nebulas to image, because it big & bright. 130 light years wide and 5200 light years away. It appears about 3 times the width of the moon.

The radiation from the young stars in the center excites the atoms in the nebula, causing them to emit radiation themselves producing the emission nebula we see. The clumpy warm colors are Hydrogen & Sulphur. The softer, more evenly distributed blue is Oxygen.

I tweaked the colors some to give the blue a bit more or of a blue-purple color reminiscent of a natural gas flame.

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This is one of the most interesting objects I’ve imaged - and with one of the coolest names. The Sandworm Nebula. The ro...
05/07/2026

This is one of the most interesting objects I’ve imaged - and with one of the coolest names. The Sandworm Nebula.

The round sandworm shape in the center is dust blown by the intense radiation and fast wind from the star in the center called WR 134 - located around 6,000 light years away from earth. It is five times the radius of the sun, but due to a temperature over 63,000 kelvin, it is 400,000 times as bright as our sun! (Visitors are encouraged to bring sunscreen.)

Because this nebula is so faint, it took four nights to image it. I shot 113 7-minute exposures using Ha, SII & OIII filters. (Hydrogen, Sulphur & Oxygen)

I'm excited to announce that I'll be exhibiting my astrophotography at The First Annual SALT LAKE ART SHOW! Come see my ...
04/26/2026

I'm excited to announce that I'll be exhibiting my astrophotography at The First Annual SALT LAKE ART SHOW!
Come see my images printed large: 2'x2', 3'x3', 4'x4'. All are available for sale.
https://www.saltlakeartshow.com/
(I didn't like their graphics, so I made my own and I'm reposting.)

The Flaming Star Nebula glows against the darkness. Its tangled filaments lit by the fierce radiation of a nearby runawa...
04/25/2026

The Flaming Star Nebula glows against the darkness. Its tangled filaments lit by the fierce radiation of a nearby runaway star.

Clouds of hydrogen glow while shock fronts and dark dust lanes twist through the scene, giving the impression of motion.

The solar winds from the large star, near the center of this image, is pushing dust and gases away, while also heating them and causing them to emit light of their own.

The dominant green of this image is Hydrogen, the most abundant element in the universe.



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