Starship Asterisk*

vdB31, B27, B28 and B29
http://www.karelteuwen.be/photo_page.ph ... 1&album=15
Copyright: Karel Teuwen

SMC
http://www.astrostudio.at/1_Deep%20Sky% ... 81e9d04c07
Copyright: Gerald Rhemann

ESO Photo release today.

Wolf-Rayet stars, plus the biggest Hll region on our galaxy and some Bok globules. And a nice image too.
http://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1425/

Found floating around Twitter tonight...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Cmgle ... 7_Jul_2014

Comparison of Optical Telescope Primary Mirrors by Wikipedia user Cmglee

MargaritaMc wrote:

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ESO Photo release today.

Wolf-Rayet stars, plus the biggest Hll region on our galaxy and some Bok globules. And a nice image too.
http://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1425/

This is one of my favourite regions in the constellation of Carina, which is full of many Wolf Rayet stars and also many Wolf Rayet nebulae.

If you look carefully (or at the full resolution image), there are also two planetary nebulae. These are PN G291.6-00.2 and PN G291.4-00.3, see the image below. These are some of more than 1000 planetary nebulae discovered in the MASH project, see here: http://vizier.u-strasbg.fr/vizier/MASH/index.htx

Also some of the Wolf Rayet nebulae in Carina have been imaged in detail, see the list below:
NGC 3199 by Marco Lorenzi
RCW 58 by Don Goldman
WR 16 nebula by Don Goldman
WR 23 nebula by Don Goldman

Some others that haven't been imaged yet are the nebulae around WR 22 and WR 30 and Hen 3-519, which interestingly makes a pair with the LBV nebula around the luminous blue variable star AG Carinae. There are also lots of Wolf Rayet nebulae in the Large Magellanic Cloud that haven't been imaged yet.

Finally, the image of NGC 3603 by HST is one of my favourite Hubble images!

Crescent Nebula (NGC 6888)
http://www.astro-koop.de/?attachment_id=1450
Copyright: Stefan Heutz, Wolfgang Ries and Michael Breite Considering this image is a HaLRGB composite, the OIII shell of this Wolf Rayet nebula is barely visible.

47 Tucanae (NGC 104)
http://www.baskies.com.ar/PHOTOS/NGC%20 ... GB%20N.htm
Copyright: Sergio Eguivar

Cygnus X-1
http://www.noao.edu/image_gallery/html/im1248.html
Copyright: T.A. Rector (University of Alaska Anchorage) and H. Schweiker (WIYN and NOAO/AURA/NSF) This image only shows part of the black hole jet powered bowshock nebula associated with Cygnus X-1. The whole nebula can be seen in this image by Don Goldman.

August 24 2014 the waning crescent moon closest approach to sweep near the sky’s brightest planets, Venus and Jupiter forming triangle shape. as seen in the Philippines.

NGC 3610 and NGC 3642
http://afesan.es/Deepspace/slides/NGC%2 ... or%29.html
Copyright: Antonio Sánchez A closeup of NGC 3642 by Adam Block.

VBRC 7
http://members.pcug.org.au/~stevec/ESO2 ... 3_RC14.htm
Copyright: Steve Crouch

LDN 1584
https://www.flickr.com/photos/neutronman/12352888865/
Copyright: John Davis This region is part of the giant emission nebula Sh2-264. The reflection nebula is catalogued as Ced 51, a closeup by Adam Block.

NGC 7380
http://www.caelumobservatory.com/gallery/n7380.shtml
Copyright: Adam Block/Mount Lemmon SkyCenter/University of Arizona

NGC 678, NGC 680 and NGC 691
http://www.capella-observatory.com/Imag ... NGC678.htm
Copyright: Makis Palaiologou, Stefan Binnewies and Josef Pöpsel NGC 678 is the edge on galaxy, NGC 680 is the shell elliptical near it and NGC 691 is the spiral near the bottom. NGC 680 is probably the product of a merger, it is also unusual in that it also includes a dust lane. Also to the left is the companion galaxy IC 1730. More information is available here. This image of NGC 691 by Adam Block also includes the spiral galaxy IC 167, all four galaxies are part of a galaxy group.

NGC 6559
http://www.cosmotography.com/images/sma ... c6559.html
Copyright: R. Jay GaBany

SBW 1
http://www.spacetelescope.org/images/potw1401a/
Copyright: ESA/Hubble & NASA
Acknowledgements: Nick Rose/Steve Byrne You can read about SBW 2 here: http://iopscience.iop.org/1538-3881/134 ... 02.web.pdf

The first comet discovered by an orbital observatory. For more information, see Karl Battams's article here: http://www.planetary.org/blogs/guest-bl ... overy.html