The Ghost of Cassiopeia
The bright star in the top-left is called Gamma Cassiopeiae, and is around 550 light-years from Earth. It’s almost 20
The bright star in the top-left is called Gamma Cassiopeiae, and is around 550 light-years from Earth. It’s almost 20
The Flaming Star Nebula (IC 405) is around 1500 light-years from Earth, and measures 5 light-years across. Its stand-out feature
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The Rotten Fish Nebula is a type of object known as a dark nebula. The blackest areas, seemingly empty of
The Cygnus Wall is a turbulent region of star formation, and part of the much larger North America Nebula (NGC
4000 light-years from Earth lies The Butterfly Nebula (IC1318), part of the much larger Sadr Region in central Cygnus. This
A collection of 100,000 stars, packed together 100 times more densely than the stars in our Sun’s stellar neighbourhood. Askar
The Pinwheel Galaxy, also known as M101, is a spiral galaxy that we’re seeing face-on. It’s 21 million light-years from
A pair of galaxies almost 12 million light-years from Earth. Bode (right) is a spiral, and its gravity is causing
An emission nebula around 3000 light-years from Earth, NGC 7822 is the birthplace of new stars. Their strong stellar winds