The Iris Nebula is one of the most famous reflection nebulae. It is located about 1300 light years away in the constellation Cepheus. The bright reflection nebula showing the characteristic blue hue is actually a part of a larger dark dust cloud. It appears bright because light from a star […]
Robert Roth
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The Cygnus Loop is one of the iconic emission nebulae in the constellation Cygnus. This region of sky is very rich in stunning emission nebulae of different origin. One of these gas clouds is the Cygnus Loop – a large structure whose different parts go under a number of names: […]
This is one of the grand galaxies of the Local Group, a sister galaxy of our own Milky Way Galaxy. This is the Triangulum Galaxy, or Messier 33, in the constellation Triangulum. It is 2.7 million light years from Earth, has a diameter of 60,000 light years, and hosts about […]
This is one of the first images taken with our TURMX remote setup at the E-EyE observatory. The target ist a classic, the globular cluster M13 in the constellation Hercules, one of the most magnificent clusters in the northern sky and also known as the Great Globular Cluster in Hercules. […]