Hi all, This time, a pair of colliding galaxies are in the recently uploaded image. The Antennae Galaxies, NGC 4038 and NGC 4039 have been imaged. These galaxies outline what our galaxy, together with the Andromeda Galaxy, M31, will resemble when they collide in just a few billion years… It will be nice to see, …
Monthly Archives: March 2017
A new, deeper version of NGC 5128
Hi all, A new, deeper version of NGC 5128 has been uploaded. The new version has been taken with the same telescope/camera as the first 2013 version, but longer (and many more) exposures (Luminance) have been added. The result is that the dust structure of the central lane shows much more detail, as well …
A new image has been uploaded (N51D-NGC 1968)
Hi all, After a brief, busy period, a new image has been uploaded. It is an emission nebula located in the Large Magellanic Cloud, N51D, also known as NGC 1968. One very distinctive feature of this beautiful nebula is the presence of the first Herbig Haro object found outside our own galaxy (in 2005). …
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