An image of WR134 has been uploaded

Hi all, An image of WR 134, a mass ejection nebula located in the constellation Cygnus. Wolf-Rayet stars are very massive and eject huge amounts of gas (as well as their strong stellar winds carve their surrounding gas clouds). This very deep image shows the whole circular structure of this nebula. You can find it …

A new image of NGC 3576, the Statue of Liberty, has been uploaded

Hi all, Another image today… In this case, it’s NGC 3576, the Statue of Liberty Nebula. This is the fourth image of this nebula that you can find in my web site. In this case, the image was taken in the frame of the joint project with Christian Sasse. The large telescope (24 in) as …

An image of a beautiful galaxy, NGC 4725, has been uploaded

Hi all, Today, there is a third image being uploaded. This time, it is a beautiful one-armed barred galaxy, NGC 4725. There is several peculiarities linked to this galaxy, but one of the most interesting is that it is interacting gravitationally with another spiral (NGC 4747, not in the picture). As a result of this …

An image of the Blue Doily Nebula has been uploaded

Hi all, An image of NGC 6164-5 and the Blue Doily Nebula that surrounds them has been uploaded. This nebular complex is very interesting in that the central spectroscopic binary star has ejected material in two phases. The first one, rich in Oxygen, conformed the bluish nebula that, in absence of a popular name I …

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