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NGC281 HUBBLE PALETTE It looks like a cave carved into the cosmos, in reality it is a wonderful nebula. It is in fact the NGC 281 nebula, a cloud of ionized gas that emits light of various colors thanks to the stars present in the IC 1590 cluster which, with their energy emissions, excite the gas at...

M100 THE BLUE REEL This rather mystically colored galaxy is 56 million light years from Earth and appears faint in the night sky. Its apparent magnitude of 10.1 means that although it can be seen through small telescopes, it will only appear as a faint patch of light. Larger telescopes can resolve m...

HICKSON 44 The four prominent galaxies seen in this field are one of the groups called Hickson ... in this case Hickson 44, about 100 million light-years away from the constellation Leo. The two spiral galaxies in the center of the image are edge-to-edge NGC 3190 with its distinctive warped dust all...

IC410 HSO Also called the tadpole nebula ... These tadpoles are found swimming in a cosmic pond of gas and dust. The cloud, partially obscured by dust in the foreground, surrounds NGC 1893, a young cluster of stars whose radiation causes the gas to glow. The region is home to major star formation pr...

THE LEO TRIPLET Also known as the M66 Group, is a small group of galaxies that are approximately 35 million light years from Earth in the constellation of Leo. The group is formed by the spiral galaxies M66, M65 and NGC 3628. Personally, when I added color to the luminance, I was fascinated to see t...

The tentacles of the medusa We are located in the constellation of Gemini, at a distance of about 5,000 light years. Between 3,000 and 30,000 years ago a supernova exploded, generating the rest of the event that we can observe today. It is thought that the core of the star that generated the explosi...

NGC 2246 SHO The Hubble Palette is a processing technique created by NASA for images obtained with the Hubble Space Telescope. It is a false color reconstruction aimed at highlighting the various nebular structures by chemical composition. From here you come to this beautiful (and very personal) exp...

INSIDE THE HEART "SHO" The vast emission nebula called IC1805 or heart nebula resembles a human heart in its entirety. The glow of the nebula is powered by stellar winds and radiation from young stars present in the Melotte 15 star cluster. The Heart Nebula is located at a distance of abou...

VDB142 ELEPHANT TRUNK HUBBLE PALETTE This is the only image I took in this summer of COVID 19, the desire I had to get out of quarantine was so great that I dedicated myself entirely to this beautiful subject! The image was taken by Costalpino in the province of Siena Acquisition data: RICCARDO CRES...

This is a very mysterious object, weak and difficult to see, but extended, at the same time. It recalls one of the most terrifying sea fantasy monsters: the giant squid. Discovered in the constellation of Cepheus in 2011 by the French astro-imager Nicolas Outters and then named with the acronym OU4....

NGC 6960, the Veil Nebula , is a diffuse nebula located in the northern constellation Cygnus, the Swan. It constitutes the visible parts of the Cygnus Loop, a supernova remnant in Cygnus. It is located at an approximate distance of 1,470 light years from Earth. The Veil Nebula has three main parts: ...

Description: NCG 6888, about 5,000 light years from Earth, is also known as Crescent Nebula and is an emission nebula in the constellation Cygnus. This image was obtained using H Alpha and OIII narrowband shooting data, using the Cannistra Technique to obtain synthetic green. It shows the emissions ...