Mayall’s Object is the product of a collision of two galaxies located approximately 450 million light years away in the constellation of Ursa Major (the… Read More »Mayall’s Object: Collisional Ring Galaxy in the Great Bear
The Dark Horse Nebula is a large dark nebula complex located in the constellation Ophiuchus. Stretching across an area of 10 degrees, it is one… Read More »Dark Horse Nebula: Dark Cloud Obscuring the Milky Way
The Double Helix Nebula is a gaseous nebula located approximately 25,000 light years from Earth in the constellation Ophiuchus. It lies in the direction of… Read More »Double Helix Nebula: Spiral Nebula at Milky Way’s Centre
The Little Ghost Nebula is a planetary nebula located between 2,000 and 5,000 light years away in the equatorial constellation of Ophiuchus. The double-shell nebula… Read More »Little Ghost Nebula (NGC 6369): Ghostly Cloud in Ophiuchus
The Cotton Candy Nebula (IRAS 17150-3224) is a protoplanetary nebula located in the southern constellation Scorpius. With an apparent size of only 16 arcseconds, it… Read More »Cotton Candy Nebula: Stellar Ghost in the Scorpion’s Tail
Alcyoneus is a large radio galaxy located approximately 3.5 billion light-years away in the northern constellation of Lynx. It has an apparent visual magnitude of… Read More »Alcyoneus Galaxy: A Cosmic Titan Redefining Galactic Size
The Jellyfish Galaxy is a barred spiral galaxy located approximately 220 million light-years away in the constellation Triangulum Australe (the Southern Triangle). The unusual galaxy… Read More »Jellyfish Galaxy: Unusual Member of the Norma Cluster