The Owl, The Far and The Ugly
Owl Nebula is approximately 8000 years old. The central star of the nebula has brightness about 14 magnitude and mass about 55% solar mass, but is…
Spring is coming
And when there is a spring there is a time fo galaxy hunting. Messier 96 (left) is spiral galaxy placed about 38 million light years away. It…
Great Bear fuzzies
Great Bear constellation is well known undeer the northern hemisphere. This large constellation lies far away from the Milky Way plane, so there…
Dust and blue
There is another piece of beautiful nebulosity in the Cepheus constellation - it is Iris nebula (NGC7023 or Caldwell 4). It is typical reflection…
Floating in the hydrogen sea II
About a month ago I wrote a blog entry with NGC6914 nebula floating in the hydrogen see - Floating in the hydrogen sea . And I just wanted to make…
