The Pleiades star cluster

The Pleiades star cluster

The Seven Sisters, or The Pleiades (Messier 45), is one of those celestial objects that most people can recognize in the autumn and winter northern night sky. Easily distinguishable at naked eye in the Taurus constellation, this star cluster shows its Seven Sisters...
The Pleiades wide field

The Pleiades wide field

The Pleiades open cluster, also known as M45, are slowly destroying part of a huge cloud of gas and dust. This young cloud of gas is thought to be the part of Gpuld’s belt. An active star forming region close to our Solar System. Not being part of the open...
Summer vs Winter, Pla de la Guàrdia

Summer vs Winter, Pla de la Guàrdia

Same place, different night sky. While the summer night sky offers some amazing views of the Galactic Center, the winter sky hosts some amazing nebulae such as the Orion Cloud Complex. This short comparison is composed by two images captured this 2021 from the same...
Namibian southern night sky

Namibian southern night sky

From the Orion Cloud Complex to the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds the southern night sky unveils some amazing deep sky targets such as the Eta Carinae Nebula or the large HII region called the Gum Nebula. This panoramic image shows a huge area of the southern...
The Rosette Nebula, sculpted by stellar winds and radiation

The Rosette Nebula, sculpted by stellar winds and radiation

The Rosette Nebula, NGC 2237,  is a large and amazing HII region located in the Monoceros constellation. The nebula lays some 5.000 light years away from us and measures 130 light years in diameter spanning over 5 times the angular diameter of a full moon. In the core...
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