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Vela A
http://wise.ssl.berkeley.edu/gallery_Vela_A.html
Copyright: NASA/JPL-Caltech/WISE Team

bystander wrote:

ESA/HEIC: Grand Swirls (NGC 1566)

[b][i]Credit: NASA/ESA/Hubble[/i][/b]

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This is one of my favourite southern spiral galaxies!! A wider field of view would show the full extent of its majestic spiral arms!! This galaxy doesn't receive as much attention from amateur astrophotographers as it should.

NGC 2276 and NGC 2300
http://www.caelumobservatory.com/gallery/n2276.shtml
Copyright: Adam Block/Mount Lemmon SkyCenter/University of Arizona NGC 2300 on the right is a shell elliptical galaxy.

NGC 7217
http://www.capella-observatory.com/Imag ... GC7217.htm
Copyright: Makis Palaiologou, Stefan Binnewies, Josef Pöpsel

Chamaeleon I cloud
http://www.glitteringlights.com/Images/ ... T5mm8dt/X3
Copyright: Marco Lorenzi

NGC 3521
http://www.martinpughastrophotography.id.au
Copyright: Martin Pugh

IC 2006
https://www.flickr.com/photos/geckzilla/9876238965/
Copyright: Hubble Legacy Archive/NASA/ESA
Processing: Judy Schmidt The narrow field of view of the HST doesn't include the outer shell of this shell elliptical galaxy.

RCW 58
http://www.astrodonimaging.com/gallery/ ... ?imgID=264
Copyright: Don Goldman

A Hubble Space Telescope Study of Star Formation in the Inner Resonance Ring of NGC 3081 - Ronald J. Buta, Gene G. Byrd, Tarsh Freeman

• Astronomical Journal 127(4) 1982 (2004 Apr) DOI: 10.1086/382239

Cartwheel Galaxy (ESO 350-40)
http://www.chart32.de/index.php/component/k2/item/58
Copyright: CHART32

Pipe Nebula (LDN 1773)
http://www.cosmicphotos.com/gallery/ima ... lbum_id=11
Copyright: Jason Jennings

LDN 810
http://www.astrophoton.com/LDN0810.htm
Copyright: Bernhard Hubl

Mining Data Archives Yields Haul of "Red Nuggets"
Credits: Ivana Damjanov & CFHT MegaCam Team
More about: http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/news/2014-15/2014-15 Abell 2151 Hercules Galaxy Cluster
Copyrights: John Chumack Titan Skygazer
Copyrights: Miguel Claro Internation Space Station
Copyrights: Norbert Juhasz Messier 10
Copyrights: Sergio Eguivar NASA Instruments on Rosetta Start Comet Science
Image Credit: ESA/ATG Medialab
More about: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2014-182 Intergalactic Meteor?
Copyrights: Dave Lane

Turret Arch Reflections
Copyrights: Mike Taylor M53
Copyrights: Bob Franke
http://bf-astro.com/m53rcos/m53.htm NGC 5053
Copyrights: Bob Franke
http://bf-astro.com/ngc5053/ngc5053.htm M53 & NGC 5053
Copyrights: Bob Franke
http://bf-astro.com/m53fsq/m53.htm Milky Way on board a 747, over the Atlantic Ocean
Copyrights: Alessandro Merga Atmospheric Gravity Waves
Copyrights: Jeff Dai The Sun
Copyrights: Peter M. Oden

Venus behind the Moon (2010)
Copyrights: Omphemetse Mputle Imaging type Ia supernova
Credits: Donald C. Warren and John M. Blondin
An article: http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2013MNRAS.429.3099W Australian Fireball in the Sky
Copyrights: Gary Shaw Lagoon nebula mosaic
Copyrights: László Francsics Gamma Cygni Region (Mosaic) H-Alpha
Copyrights: Terry Hancock Gamma Cygni Western Region
Copyrights: Terry Hancock

vdB152
http://www.distant-lights.at/vdb152_coop.htm
Copyright: Thomas Henne and Frank Sackenheim

ESA/HEIC wrote:
Golden rings of star formation

Beautiful picture. Bad description. Fresh star formation is not golden. It is blue.

The rings of star formation are bluish even in the picture.

Ann

Ann wrote:

ESA/HEIC wrote:
Golden rings of star formation

Beautiful picture. Bad description. Fresh star formation is not golden. It is blue.

The rings of star formation are bluish even in the picture.

Ann

Ann I just love how you are passionate about the colour blue, it is also my favourite colour! Also I'd like to mention that most OIII emission is green but some of it is blue!

Sh2-68
http://www.noao.edu/image_gallery/html/im1164.html
Copyright: T.A. Rector (University of Alaska Anchorage) and H. Schweiker (WIYN and NOAO/AURA/NSF)

Lindos Sunrise
http://www.twanight.org/newTWAN/photos.asp?ID=3002625
Copyright: Tamás Ladányi (TWAN)

I suggest this sunrise picture as the (northern) summer solstice is on 21st June 2014.

Tunç Tezel

Hi to all,
here a big solar prominence today the 16th of June.
09h25 T.U / 225 mm coronograph
Best regards
Philippe TOSI

NGC 2174
http://www.karelteuwen.be/photo_page.ph ... 2&album=15
Copyright: Karel Teuwen