Topic: Celestial Antiquity

  • December 6, 2025
    Today’s rather aquatic-themed NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope Picture of the Week features the spiral galaxy Messier 77, also known as…
  • December 5, 2025
    Blasting outward from variable star KX Andromedae, these stunning bipolar jets are 19 light-years long. Recently discovered, they are revealed…
  • December 4, 2025
    NGC 6888, also known as the Crescent Nebula, is a about 25 light-years across, a cosmic bubble blown by winds…
  • December 3, 2025
    Big, beautiful spiral galaxy NGC 1055 is a dominant member of a small galaxy group a mere 60 million light-years…
  • December 2, 2025
    The subject of the latest Hubble Picture of the Week is a stormy and highly active spiral galaxy named NGC…
  • December 1, 2025
    Globular cluster M15. The central ball of over 100,000 stars is a relic from the early years of our Galaxy,…
  • November 30, 2025
    US Route 163 and iconic buttes on the Navajo National Reservationpopulate the horizon. The band of Milky Way Galaxy stretches…
  • November 29, 2025
    This magnificent extragalactic skyscape looks toward the Andromeda Galaxy, the closest large spiral galaxy to the Milky Way. It also…
  • November 28, 2025
    Spanning light-years, this suggestive shape known as the Seahorse Nebula floats in silhouette against a rich background of stars and…
  • November 27, 2025
    Few cosmic vistas can excite the imagination like The Great Nebula in Orion. Visible as a faint, bland celestial smudge…
  • November 26, 2025
    Shiny NGC 253 is one of the brightest spiral galaxies visible, and also one of the dustiest. Some call it…
  • November 25, 2025
    Similar in size and grand design to our home Galaxy (although without the central bar), spiral galaxy NGC 3370 lies…
  • November 24, 2025
    Today’s ESA/Hubble Picture of the Week brings a distant stellar birthplace into focus. This gigantic cloud of cold hydrogen gas…
  • November 23, 2025
    Near the center of this telescopic view toward the constellation Cassiopeia these swept-back interstellar clouds IC 59 (left) and IC…
  • November 21, 2025
    This favorite is item number 43 from the Beverly Lynds 1962 Catalog of Dark Nebulae, fondly known as the Cosmic…
  • November 20, 2025
    The Veil Nebula itself is a large supernova remnant, the expanding debris cloud from the death explosion of a massive…
  • November 19, 2025
    Halloween's origin is ancient and astronomical. Since the fifth century BC, Halloween has been celebrated as a cross-quarter day, a…
  • November 18, 2025
    A mere 390 light-years away, Sun-like stars and future planetary systems are forming in the Rho Ophiuchi molecular cloud complex,…
  • November 17, 2025
    Today’s ESA/Hubble Picture of the Week features the spiral galaxy NGC 4535, which is situated about 50 million light-years away…
  • November 16, 2025
    First, the large emission nebula on the left, catalogued as IC 1805, looks somewhat like a human heart. The nebula…
  • November 15, 2025
    Young suns still lie within dusty NGC 7129, some 3,000 light-years away toward the royal constellation Cepheus. While these stars…
  • November 14, 2025
    Known to some as the Elephant's Trunk Nebula, parts of gas and dust clouds of this star formation region may…
  • November 13, 2025
    NGC 7513 is a barred spiral galaxy located in the constellation Sculptor. It is located at a distance of circa…
  • November 12, 2025
    The Andromeda Galaxy is a barred spiral galaxy and is the nearest major galaxy to the Milky Way. It was…
  • November 11, 2025
    NGC 6357 is a diffuse nebula near NGC 6334 in the constellation Scorpius. The nebula contains many proto-stars shielded by…
  • November 10, 2025
    Though interesting to look at, NGC 1511 is one galaxy you might not want for a neighbour. Seen in this…
  • November 9, 2025
    Fleming 1 is an unusual planetary nebula situated in the Centaurus constellation. It has a pair of symmetrical jets spanning…
  • November 8, 2025
    NGC 134 is a barred spiral galaxy that resembles the Milky Way with its spiral arms loosely wrapped around a…
  • November 7, 2025
    NGC 1316 (also known as Fornax A) is a lenticular galaxy about 60 million light-years (18.4 million parsecs) away in the…
  • November 6, 2025
    NGC 6872, also known as the Condor Galaxy, is a large barred spiral galaxy of typeSB(s)b pec in the constellation…
  • November 5, 2025
    This planetary nebula was discovered in 1955 by the American astronomer George Ogden Abell on the photo plates of the…
  • November 4, 2025
    NGC 6782 is a barred spiral galaxy located in the southern constellation of Pavo, at a distance of approximately 173…
  • November 3, 2025
    What lies at the heart of this unusual-looking spiral galaxy? The galaxy NGC 4102, featured in this ESA/Hubble Picture of…
  • November 2, 2025
    Nicknamed the Spare Tyre Nebula, IC 5148 is a planetary nebula located around 1 degree west of Lambda Gruis in…
  • November 1, 2025
    NGC 7049 is a lenticular galaxy that spans about 150,000 light-years and lies about 100 million light-years away from Earth…
  • October 31, 2025
    NGC 1055 is an edge-on spiral galaxy located in the constellation Cetus. The galaxy has a prominent nuclear bulge crossed…
  • October 30, 2025
    The Sculptor Galaxy (also known as the Silver Coin Galaxy, Silver Dollar Galaxy, NGC 253, or Caldwell 65) is an…
  • October 29, 2025
    This new NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope Picture of the Month features a cosmic creepy-crawly called NGC 6537 — the…
  • October 28, 2025
    LBN 437, a molecular cloud in the constellation Lacerta, is approximately 1,200 light-years away. Other studies have provided different distances,…
  • October 27, 2025
    A star-studded spiral galaxy shines in this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope Picture of the Week. This galaxy is called NGC…
  • October 26, 2025
    This nebula was discovered in 1946 by Rudolph Minkowski (Min 1-90) and classified as «diffuse and peculiar nebulosity». Later in…
  • October 25, 2025
    WR 134 is a variable Wolf-Rayet star located around 6,000 light years away from Earth in the constellation of Cygnus,…
  • October 24, 2025
    The Dumbbell Nebula (also known as the Apple Core Nebula, Messier 27, and NGC 6853) is a planetary nebula (nebulosity…
  • October 23, 2025
    NGC 2655 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Camelopardalis. It is at a distance of 60 million light years…
  • October 22, 2025
    NGC 7822 is a young star forming complex in the constellation of Cepheus. The complex encompasses the emission region designated…
  • October 21, 2025
    NGC 7635, also known as the Bubble Nebula, Sharpless 162, or Caldwell 11, is an H II region emission nebula in…
  • October 20, 2025
    Today’s ESA/Hubble Picture of the Week features a galaxy that Hubble has captured multiple times over more than 20 years.…
  • October 19, 2025
    The Flying Bat Nebula, also known as Sh2-129, is a large, faint emission nebula in the constellation Cepheus. It is…
  • October 18, 2025
    C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) is a non-periodic comet discovered by the Mount Lemmon Survey in images obtained on 3 January 2025.…
  • October 17, 2025
    The Ring Nebula (also catalogued as Messier 57, M57 and NGC 6720) is a planetary nebula in the northern constellation…
  • October 16, 2025
    Sh 2-1, also known as Sharpless 1, is the combination of a diffuse HII emission nebula and reflection nebula in…
  • October 15, 2025
    The Andromeda Galaxy is a barred spiral galaxy and is the nearest major galaxy to the Milky Way. It was…
  • October 14, 2025
    Not as well-known as the Leo triplet NGC 5981, 5982 and 5985, collectively known as the Draco triplet are a…
  • October 13, 2025
    The celestial object that is displayed in this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope Picture of the Week is NGC 7496, a…
  • October 12, 2025
    NGC 5907 (also known as NGC 5906, Knife Edge Galaxy, or Splinter Galaxy) is a spiral galaxy located approximately 46.5…
  • October 11, 2025
    The Helix Nebula (also known as NGC 7293 or Caldwell 63) is a planetary nebula (PN) located in the constellationAquarius.…
  • October 10, 2025
    SH2-115 is an emission nebula located about 7,500 light-years away in the constellation Cygnus, near the bright star Deneb. It…
  • October 9, 2025
    It is with great pleasure that we returned to a well-known object for astronomers and astrophotographers. It is always a…
  • October 8, 2025
    The Great Lacerta Nebula (Sh2-126) is an emission nebula about 1,200 light years away in constellation Lacerta (Great Lizard). Part…
  • October 7, 2025
    The glittering galaxy in this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope Picture of the Week is NGC 6951, which resides about 70…