SH2-86Emission Nebula
A Cluster Carving Its Own Cavity
Six thousand light-years away in the constellation Vulpecula, a cluster of young stars is dismantling the cloud that made it. The cluster is NGC 6823,...
Six thousand light-years away in the constellation Vulpecula, a cluster of young stars is dismantling the cloud that made it. The cluster is NGC 6823,...
The Iris Nebula, and the vast dark cloud it blooms from On the right side of this frame, a small blue flower opens in the dark. Everything else, the b...
M101, the Pinwheel Galaxy, is a textbook face-on spiral roughly 21 million light-years away in Ursa Major. It's enormous. At close to 170,000 light-ye...
M13 is one of the brightest globular clusters in the northern sky, a gravitationally bound swarm of a few hundred thousand stars packed into a sphere ...
A City of Galaxies About 54 million light-years from Earth, in the direction of the constellation Virgo, lies the nearest large galaxy cluster to our ...
Two Nebulae, One Frame This patch of sky in Auriga holds two emission nebulae that sit close together on the sky but have almost nothing else in commo...
A 260-Year-Old Mistake In 1764, the French astronomer Charles Messier was hunting for something specific — a nebula that a fellow astronomer had repor...
This image of M31, the Andromeda Galaxy, was captured as a small first-light project with my new William Optics RedCat 51 WIFD, taken from a remote si...
Captured under pristine dark skies near Richfield, this image shows the Crab Nebula, the expanding remnant of a supernova observed on Earth in 1054 AD...
The Orion Nebula is one of the most studied and recognizable regions of star formation in the night sky. Located roughly 1,350 light-years away, it is...
This image marks the final deep-sky project captured with my ZWO ASI585MM Pro before moving to a larger-sensor camera — a fitting subject to close out...
This image of M42, the Great Orion Nebula, came from a fairly spontaneous night out and a setup I hadn’t used in a while. Even with only around two ho...