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This composite image released by NASA on May 7, 2014 shows NGC 2024, which is found in the center of the so-called Flame Nebula about 1,400 light years from Earth. In this image, X-rays from Chandra ...
A nebula is a luminescent giant cloud of dust and gas in space that could be from a supernova or could be a star-forming region. The "dumbbell nebula," also known as Messier 27, is what astronomers ...
It’s been a year since I formally started my new hobby of astrophotography. Since then, I’ve taken some of the best phones to ...
To understand how long a planetary nebula remains visible, we first need to understand why a planetary nebula is visible at all. When a solar-type star (one with a mass of 0.8 to eight times that of ...
Here’s an oddball open star cluster I bet you’ve never seen — it’s catalogued as Pismis-Moreno 1. Lying at a high declination in the northern constellation Cepheus, it was discovered by ...