2023年3月23日 Spiral Galaxy NGC 2841 Image Credit & Copyright: Roberto Marinoni Explanation: A mere 46 million light-years distant, spiral galaxy NGC 2841 can be found in planet Earth’s night sky toward the northern constellation of Ursa Major. This sharp image centered on the gorgeous islan […]
2023年3月22日 M31: The Andromeda Galaxy Image Credit & Copyright: Abdullah Al-Harbi Explanation: How far can you see? The most distant object easily visible to the unaided eye is M31, the great Andromeda Galaxy, over two million light-years away. Without a telescope, even this immense spiral galax
2023年3月21日 Dark Nebulae and Star Formation in Taurus Image Credit & Copyright: Vikas Chander Explanation: Can dust be beautiful? Yes, and it can also be useful. The Taurus molecular cloud has several bright stars, but it is the dark dust that really draws attention. The pervasive dust has waves
2023年3月20日 M1: The Expanding Crab Nebula Video Credit & Copyright: Detlef Hartmann Explanation: Are your eyes good enough to see the Crab Nebula expand? The Crab Nebula is cataloged as M1, the first on Charles Messier’s famous list of things which are not comets. In fact, the Crab is now
2023年3月18日 Wolf-Rayet 124 Image Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Webb ERO Production Team Explanation: Driven by powerful stellar winds, expanding shrouds of gas and dust frame hot, luminous star Wolf-Rayet 124 in this sharp infrared view. The eye-catching 6-spike star pattern is characteristic of ste
2023年3月17日 The Medusa Nebula Image Credit & Copyright: Martin Bradley Chesterfield Astronomical Society Explanation: Braided and serpentine filaments of glowing gas suggest this nebula’s popular name, The Medusa Nebula. Also known as Abell 21, this Medusa is an old planetary nebula some 1
2023年3月16日 Millions of Stars in Omega Centauri Image Credit & Copyright: Neil Corke, Heaven’s Mirror Observatory Explanation: Globular star cluster Omega Centauri, also known as NGC 5139, is 15,000 light-years away. The cluster is packed with about 10 million stars much older than the Sun
2023年3月15日 Jupiter and Venus Converge over Germany Image Credit & Copyright: Michael Luy (Trier Observatory) Explanation: This was a sky to show the kids. Early this month the two brightest planets in the night sky, Jupiter and Venus, appeared to converge. At their closest, the two planets were
2023年3月14日 W5: The Soul Nebula Image Credit & Copyright: José Jiménez (Astromet) Explanation: Stars are forming in the Soul of the Queen of Aethopia. More specifically, a large star forming region called the Soul Nebula can be found in the direction of the constellation Cassiopeia, whom Greek m
