Starship Asterisk*

Hi all! This is NGC 132, a spiral galaxy in the constellation Sculptor. It is the main galaxy of a whole group. At both ends there are star currents, possibly the galaxy interacts with other galaxies. ESO 350-26 on the left above is an equally distant low surface brightness galaxy, which also appear...

Hi all! NGC 249 is an emission nebula in the Small Magellanic Cloud. Furthermore there are NGC 261 and NGC 267 in the field as well as LHA 115-N 9, a planetary nebula. This region is not often photographed in high resolution. LHA 115-N19 shows interesting structures, similar to a supernova remnant. ...

A very unequal pair - HFG 1 and Abell 6 Hello everyone! While Abell 6 represents a more "classic" planetary nebula, HFG 1 is a little more special. It was discovered in 1982 by Heckathorn, Fesen & Gull. Its "central star" is a double star system of a red giant and a white dw...

Palomar 5, discovered in 1950, is a rather faint globular cluster in the constellation Serpens. It has meanwhile been misclassified as a dwarf galaxy (serpens dwarf), but it is clearly a globular cluster. However, many stars are leaving this cluster in form of a stellar stream. The stellar stream is...