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M42: The Great Nebula in Orion

By |2024-11-04T08:09:14-05:00November 4th, 2024|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day The Great Nebula in Orion, an immense, nearby starbirth region, is probably the most famous of all astronomical nebulas. Here, glowing gas surrounds hot young stars at the edge of an immense interstellar molecular cloud only 1500 light-years away. In the featured deep image in assigned colors highlighted by emission [...]

The Great Globular Cluster in Hercules

By |2024-09-26T09:09:07-04:00September 26th, 2024|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day In 1716, English astronomer Edmond Halley noted, "This is but a little Patch, but it shows itself to the naked Eye, when the Sky is serene and the Moon absent." Of course, M13 is now less modestly recognized as the Great Globular Cluster in Hercules, one of the brightest globular [...]

Waves of the Great Lacerta Nebula

By |2022-09-14T14:09:08-04:00September 14th, 2022|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day It is one of the largest nebulas on the sky -- why isn't it better known? Roughly the same angular size as the Andromeda Galaxy, the Great Lacerta Nebula can be found toward the constellation of the Lizard (Lacerta). The emission nebula is difficult to see with wide-field binoculars because [...]

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