Cosmic Nebulae and Space

Stunning astrophotography of colorful nebulae and star fields, capturing the beauty and vastness of outer space with vibrant colors.

The Orion molecular cloud complex with Barnard's Loop curling around the image.
The Orion molecular cloud complex with Barnard's Loop curling around the image.
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Messier 7, the ptolemy cluster.
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NASAs Spitzer Space Telescope image of a glowing stellar nursery provides a spectacular contrast to the opaque cloud seen in visible light (inset). The Elephants Trunk Nebula is an elongated dark globule within the emission nebula IC 1396 in the constellation of Cepheus. Located at a distance of 2,450 light-years, the globule is a condensation of dense gas that is barely surviving the strong ionizing radiation from a nearby massive star. The globule is being compressed by the surrounding ionized gas. The dark globule is seen in silhouette at visible-light wavelengths, backlit by the illumination of a bright star located to the left of the field of view.
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Planet Mars. Solar system. Cosmos art. Elements of this image furnished by NASA
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Interstellar embryo IC 1848, the Soul Nebula.
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Vintage Photograph. NGC 234 Great spiral nebula in andromeda messier 31. South preceding region showing resolution into stars taken with 100 inch hooker telescope.
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Jellyfish Nebula, IC443 galactic supernova remnant in the constellation Gemini with the star Eta Geminorum nearby, Bavaria, Germany, Europe
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Cassini briefly turned its gaze from Saturn and its rings and moons to marvel at the Carina Nebula, a brilliant region 8,000 light years from our solar system and more than 200 light years across
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Messier 27, The Dumbbell Nebula.
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These delicate wisps of gas make up an object known as SNR B0519-69.0, or SNR 0519 for short. The thin, blood-red shells are actually the remnants from when an unstable progenitor star exploded violently as a supernova around 600 years ago. There are several types of supernova, but for SNR 0519 the star that exploded is known to have been a white dwarf star a Sun-like star in the final stages of its life. SNR 0519 is located over 150 000 light-years from Earth in the southern constellation of Dorado (The Dolphinfish), a constellation that also contains most of our neighbouring galaxy the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). Because of this, this region of the sky is full of intriguing and beautiful deep sky objects. The LMC orbits the Milky Way galaxy as a satellite and is the fourth largest in our group of galaxies, the Local Group. SNR 0519 is not alone in the LMC; the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope also came across a similar bauble a few years ago in SNR B0509-67.5, a supernova of the s
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Generations of stars can be seen in this new infrared portrait from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. In this wispy star-forming region, called W5, the oldest stars can be seen as blue dots in the centers of the two hollow cavities.
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Dark nebula LDN1235 also known as the shark nebula in the Cepheus constellation.
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IC 1396, The Elephant Trunk Nebula
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Perseus Double Cluster, NGC 884 and NGC 869.
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The Crescent Nebula, NGC 6888, an emission nebula in Cygnus.
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Star field in space a nebulae and a gas congestion. Elements of this image furnished by NASA". 3D rendering. Star field in space and a nebulae. 3D rendering
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Cosmos, outer space and nebula dust in milky way of stars, neon color and glow or pattern on galaxy background. Cloud, dark sky and universe, aerospace or solar system of science or fantasy explosion
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Seen here by NASA's WISE, the cloud CG4.
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Lower's Nebula in Orion with star clusters NGC 2169 and NGC 2194 below.
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Vintage Photograph. Spiral nebula captured by the Palomar Observatory.
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Vintage photograph. Stars in night sky - Double Cluster in Perseus
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The Dumbbell Nebula, also known as Messier 27 or NGC 6853, is a planetary nebula in the constellation Vulpecula
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A bubbling cauldron of star birth is highlighted in this image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. Massive stars have blown bubbles, or cavities, in the dust and gas -- a violent process that triggers both the death and birth of stars.
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The famous Double Cluster in Perseus, NGC 884 and NGC 869.
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M16, The Eagle Nebula in Serpens.
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The dark doodad, a dusty filament in the southern Milky Way.
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Pleiades with Reflection Nebula, M45, open star cluster in the constellation Taurus
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Lower's Nebula and the small star cluster NGC 2169.
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The Milky Way through the region of the tail of Scorpius and up into Sagittarius, photographed with it high in the sky from Australia. At bottom are the red nebulas of NGC 6334, the Cats Paw, and NGC 6357 (sometimes called the Lobster Nebula, for a “Paws and Claws” pairing). The clusters Messier 6 and Messier 7 are at left, below centre, with M7 lost in the star clouds of the Milky Way. The Galactic Centre lies at left centre. The Lagoon and Trifid Nebulas, M8 and M20, are at top left. Satu
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Named RCW 120, this region of hot gas and glowing dust can be found in the murky clouds encircled by the tail of the constellation Scorpius. Spitzer.
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Pacman Nebula, NGC 281
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Great Orion Nebula M42, in the constellation of Orion, Milky Way
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The Double Cluster and Stock 2 Muscleman Cluster.
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NGC 7293, the Helix Nebula.
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A face-on intermediate spiral galaxy.
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NGC 281, the Pacman Nebula in Hubble color palette.
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The Cygnus Loop nebula, taken by NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer. The nebula lies about 1,500 light-years away, and is a supernova remnant, left over from a massive stellar explosion that occurred between 5,000 to 8,000 years ago.
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Vintage photograph. Stars in night sky - Orion Nebula
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reach for the stars with space gridded starmap and bright destination star
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Newborn stars emerging pockets of interstellar gas in the Eagle Nebula. The Hubble telescope image shows an area of space in the constellation Serpens, seven thousand light-years from Earth. 1995.
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The Dumbbell Nebula, a planetary nebula also known as M 27 (Messier 27) or NGC 6853, seen in a composite of multiple exposures taken in the wavelengths of Helium II, Hydrogen Alpha, and O III.
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The magenta spots in this image from NASA's NuSTAR show two black holes in the spiral galaxy called NGC 1313, or the Topsy Turvy galaxy, located about 13 million light-years away in the Reticulum constellation.
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Dark Doodad Nebula in the southern constellation Musca (the fly)
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This archival image from 2003 captured by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope captured the Elephant's Trunk Nebula, an elongated dark globule within the emission nebula IC 1396 in the constellation of Cepheus.
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Helix Nebula, NGC 7293.
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Photograph of planetary Nebula (NGC 6960) in Aquarius. Dated 20th century
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The Pleiades star cluster.
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Vintage Photograph. nebulosity at center of photograph is NGC 6523 Messier 8; above is NGC 6514 Messier 20. Several open star clusters appear in this region taken with 18 inch Schmidt telescope.
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Bear Claw Nebula, a planetary nebula in Cassiopeia.