Starship Asterisk*

One of about 150 - Messier 22 by Herbert Walter, auf Flickr

A lovely pair in the southern sky ... by Herbert Walter, auf Flickr

Barnard 276 - dusty, dark and very cold https://www.skypixels.at/bilder/b276_IAS_info.jpg Barnard 276 is an impressive Dark Nebula in Ophiuchus in the southern hemisphere. Dark nebulae consists of interstellar matter (gas and dust) and absorbs the light of stars behind them. B 276 is an active star ...

NGC 5128 (Centaurus A) - galaxy in constellation Centaurus https://www.skypixels.at/bilder/ngc5128_MPugh_info.jpg Centaurus A (also known as NGC 5128 or Caldwell 77) is a galaxy in the constellation of Centaurus. It was discovered in 1826 by Scottish astronomer James Dunlop , in New South Wales, Aus...

NGC 4038/4039 - Viennese waltz in space For me as an Austrian these are clearly 2 galaxies dancing Viennese Waltz Astrophysicists consider NGC 4038 / NGC 4039 as interacting galaxies at a distance of about 75 million light years in the constellation Corvus. This pair of galaxies is also called Ante...

NGC 2547 ... blue, bright, young and hot! Few bright stars form the constellation Vela, which lies in direct line in front of the band of our Milky Way as seen from Earth. This explains that there are many, many stars and gas nebulae in this image. This scenery shows gas clouds from which young star...

Messier 16 - Pillars of Creation and source for young stars More infos: https://www.skypixels.at/m16_info.html https://www.skypixels.at/bilder/m16_YASS_info.jpg The image shows the center of Messier 16 (or Eagle Nebula) which actually consists of two objects: an open star cluster, with the catalog d...

IC 2177 - colorful head of the 'Seagull Nebula' https://www.skypixels.at/bilder/ic2177_info.jpg IC 2177 - head of the 'Seagull Nebula'. Such colorful nebula complexes are among the most visually impressive objects in the night sky. They are interstellar clouds of dust, molecules, hydrogen, helium a...

NGC 300 is located in the inconspicuous constellation Sculptor and a prominent member of the "Sculptor group of galaxies". Its diameter is 94,000 light-years, which is slightly smaller than our Milky Way. With a distance of 6 Mly, it is one of the closest galaxies to us in the southern sky...

Jewels in the southern sky! This photo shows one of the most beautiful open star clusters of the southern sky - NGC 4755. It is an extremely brilliant and famous object when viewed through a binocular or a telescope. The orange star is DU Crucis and a red supergiant, strongly contrasting with the ot...

As a friend of open star clusters, you have to capture NGC 457 in the constellation Cassiopeia. It is the brightest open star cluster in Cassiopeia and one of the most beautiful objects of its kind in the northern sky. With a brightness of +6.4, it is barely visible to the naked eye, but easy to see...

NGC 1097 ... ...is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Fornax (distance about 48 million light years). It is a severely interacting galaxy with obvious tidal debris and distortions caused by interaction with the companion galaxy NGC 1097A.  More infos: https://www.skypixels.at/ngc1097_N17_in...

NGC 7090 - small, but beautiful :D https://www.skypixels.at/bilder/ngc7090_info.jpg More infos: https://www.skypixels.at/ngc7090_info.html NGC 7090 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Indus in the southern sky and was discovered in 1834 by the English astronomer John Herschel. It has an a...

PGC 143 or WLM (it stands for Wolf–Lundmark–Melotte). This irregular dwarf galaxy is located 3 million light years away - just a little bit further away than the popular Andromeda galaxy - and shows clearly blue star clouds.

South of the star Antares in the nebula-rich constellation Scorpius lies the emission nebula IC 4628 - the Prawn Nebula. This is a close-up of the central region. In the image field there are also 2 brilliant open clusters and more. For object identification see: https://www.skypixels.at/ic4628_info...

What a mystical image - the open star cluster ESO 245-09 above the brightly glowing star 'psi Phoenix'.

More infos: https://www.skypixels.at/ocl_eso_245-09.html

VDB 15 This beautiful reflection nebula is only a small part of a large dust cloud in the constellation Camelopardalis. It contains both reflection nebulae (blue), emission nebulae (red) and dark clouds (brownish-black). https://www.skypixels.at/bilder/vdb15_info.jpg More infos: https://www.skypixel...

Irregular Galaxy NGC 55 ... ... in constellation Sculptor https://www.skypixels.at/ngc55_asterisk.jpg More info and larger image: https://www.skypixels.at/ngc55_info.html NGC 55 is a nearly edge-on galaxy and appears asymmetrical with some knots and dustlanes. An absolutly outstanding galaxie of th...