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Antares and the Rho Ophiuchi Dark Cloud
The dusty region between Ophiuchus and Scorpius contains some of the most colourful and spectacular...
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NGC 6559 and IC 1274-75 in Sagittarius
This dusty region is probably associated with the brighter and better-known Lagoon and...
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Horsehead Nebula, NGC 2024 and IC 434
This distinctive red emission nebula (IC 434) is the result of radiation from sigma...
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Part of M78, NGC 2068 in Orion
In a modest telescope M78 looks like a faint comet, exactly the kind of object Messier intended to...
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NGC 2014, Henize 55 in the Large Magellanic Cloud
The nearby Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) is a very active star-forming galaxy. The most massive...
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NGC 1097, a barred spiral galaxy and elliptical companion
NGc 1097 is a fine, barred spiral galaxy seen from a distance of about 50 million light years. The...
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NGC 1055, a dusty edge-on spiral galaxy
NGC 1055 is a striking disk galaxy seen almost edge-on a distance of about 40 million light years....
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NGC 5189 imaged in narrow emission lines
The peculiarity of NGC 5189 lies in its astonishingly complex structure, first noted by Sir John...
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NGC 6744, a Milky Way-like spiral galaxy
This beautiful galaxy is about 25 million light years away in the direction of Pavo, a constellation...
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IC 5332, a faint, face-on spiral galaxy
This delicate spiral galaxy has no distinguishing features or apparent intrinsic interest except...
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NGC 6559, emission and reflection nebula in Sagittarius
In the direction of Sagittarius lies the Galactic center and if we could see clearly in...
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NGC 4038-39, the galaxies of "The Antennae"
NGC 4038 and 4039 are the well-known pair of interacting galaxies that show two broadly curved tails...
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Orion nebula imaged in narrow emission lines
www.aao.gov.au/images/captions/a atccd007.html AAT CCD 7. Orion nebula imaged in narrow...
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The Cartwheel, interacting galaxies in Sculptor
This diminutive group of galaxies appears small because it is distant, about 500 million light years...
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Around the nucleus of M83 (NGC 5236)
Messier 83 is a giant spiral galaxy on the borders of Hydra and Centaurus in the southern sky. By...
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Bubble in Galaxy's Core
mw1.google.com/mw-earth-vectordb /sky/sky0/pics/2001/28/im...
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Uploaded on Aug 23, 2007
Supernova 1987A and Sanduleak -69°202
The brightest star in the colour photograph is supernova 1987A, photographed with the AAT two months...
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Uploaded on Aug 23, 2007
