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Hickson 44 in Leo

Scanning the skies for galaxies, Canadian astronomer Paul Hickson and colleagues...

Hyakutake: stars through a comet's tail

Comets are cosmic icebergs. They follow very elongated orbits which carry them f...

Galaxies in the River: NGC 1300 and NGC 1297

Spiral NGC 1300 and elliptical NGC 1297 are galaxies that lie on the banks of th...

Cygnus and the solitary tree

A lone tree stands in a quiet meadow in Guadalajara, Spain, silhouetted against ...

NGC 1566: The Spanish Dancer Galaxy

If not perfect, then this spiral galaxy is at least one of the most photogenic.

The Fibonacci sequence in nature

The Fibonacci sequence can be observed in nature, alongside the Golden Ratio. It...

CG 4: The Globule and the Galaxy

Is this a cosmic monster ready to devour an unsuspecting galaxy?

Sirius: The brightest star in the night sky

Sirius is visible on the far left of the above photograph, to the left of the co...

NGC 1818: A Young Globular Cluster

Globular clusters once ruled the Milky Way. Back in the old days, back when our ...

When roses aren't red

Not all roses are red of course, but they can still be very pretty. Likewise, th...

The Aurora Tree

Pictured is a visual coincidence between the dark branches of a nearby tree and ...

M16: Stars from Eagle's EGGs

Here are newborn stars are forming in the Eagle Nebula.

Crab Nebula mosaic from Hubble

The Crab Nebula is catalogued as M1, the first object on Charles Messier's famou...

Shapley 1: An annular planetary nebula

What’s looking back at you isn’t a cosmic eye, but Shapley 1, a beautifully symm...

Saturn's rings in natural colour

What colours are Saturn's rings?