Starship Asterisk*

Nebula complex in Taurus
This beautiful nebula complex is in the constellation Taurus. Gas, dust and a few dark nebulae dominate the image. Left of center is the yellowish reflection nebula vdB 27. To the right, in scattered blue light, is CED 30.
Copyright: Bob Franke

West Veil in Ha, OIII
Copyright: Francesco di Biase

Feeding Galaxy Caught in Distant Searchlight ESO’s Very Large Telescope probes growth of galaxies Credits: Nicolas Bouché of the Research Institute in Astrophysics and Planetology (IRAP) in Toulouse, France and others http://www.eso.org/public/archives/images/screen/eso1330a.jpg An article can be f...

Fly me to the Moon...

A Boeing 737 of Air France seen departing London-Heathrow, whilst a Boeing 757 of British Airways flies overhead...both against the backdrop of a half moon.
Copyright: Bob Holder

Perigee Moonrise over Rice Lake, Keene, Ontario, Canada (top)
Milky Way Galaxy above Rice Lake, Keene, Ontario, Canada (bottom)
Copyright: John Chumack

A narrowband image of M8 (The Lagoon Nebula) http://users.tpg.com.au/dctrap/astrophotos/M8_Hubble_Palette.jpg Copyrights: David Trappett NEW nebula around star V2493Cyg http://www.rosa-remote.com/typo3temp/pics/7de718a7bd.jpg Original image can be found here: http://www.rosa-remote.com/213.0.html C...

A history of the sky
Suggested by Angela Jakary

Comet Panstarrs Movie can be seen here: http://www.damianpeach.com/deepsky/panstarrs_may_june2013dp.wmv Animated gif can be seen here: http://www.damianpeach.com/deepsky/panstarrs_may_june2013dp.gif Copyrights: Damian Peach ------------------------------------------ IC1318 Gamma Cyg Copyrights: Jos...

Violent neutron star formation in a three-dimensional computer simulation http://www.mpa-garching.mpg.de/mpa/institute/news_archives/news1306_ddd/fig2f.jpg Credits: Elena Erastova and Markus Rampp, RZG Full story can be found here: http://www.mpa-garching.mpg.de/mpa/institute/news_archives/news1306...

M20 - Trifid Nebula Location: Taken from El Dorado Hills, California (object is about 25-30 degrees above horizon at peak) Dates: Taken over 6 nights from May 19 - June 8, 2013 Field of view: approx. 24x36 arc minutes Plate Scale: 0.54 arcseconds/pixel Exposures: L 4x10min Bin 1x1; R 7x20min Bin 2x...

First transiting planets in a star cluster discovered A lot of buzz from the just-released announcement surrounding the discovery of the first transiting planets in a star cluster, namely NGC 6811, and which have been named Kepler-66b and Kepler-67b. Please find attached a really sweet LRGB result ...

Chandra X-Ray Observatory
G1.9+0.3: The Remarkable Remains of a Recent Supernova
Article about the Supernova can be found here: http://chandra.si.edu/photo/2013/g19/

Copyright: Chandra X-Ray Observatory

Supermoon I am submitting the attached composite image of the "supermoon," which I took the evening of June 22 as it was rising over the Santa Rita Mountains in southern Arizona. I took a total of seven images four minutes apart at a focal length of 135mm with a Nikon D-300 on a tripod, t...

Hello! I have just joined this forum. I have been interested in the astronomy from the very early age. I grew up in the countryside with very little of light pollution - the night sky fascinated me probably from the first time I looked at it - what is this 'cloud' in the sky? What is this big bright...