Emission nebulae
10 photos
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Soul Nebula (IC 1848)
Twenty-nine hours of exposure on a stellar nursery a hundred light years wide, where the winds of young stars carve pillars and arches. -
Heart Nebula (IC 1805)
A heart of hydrogen two hundred light years wide, carved by the wind of a handful of very young stars. -
Tulip Nebula (Sh2-101)
A flower of hydrogen in Cygnus, sharing its field with the first black hole ever identified. -
Bubble and Lobster Claw (NGC 7635 and Sh2-157)
A bubble blown into the gas by the wind of a single star, beside a nebula shaped like a pincer. -
Eagle Nebula (M16)
The cloud that holds the Pillars of Creation: columns of gas light years tall, carved by the light of newborn stars. -
Cygnus Nebulosity
The Cygnus Nebulosities is an enormous complex of dark nebulae and interstellar dust, spanning the northern branch of the Milky Way. -
Boltzmann's Brains
The Crescent Nebula (NGC 6888) is one of the mysterious Boltzmann brains??? -
Orion Nebula (M42)
The nearest stellar nursery: a thousand stars forming inside a cloud visible to the naked eye below Orion's Belt. -
Pacman Nebula (NGC 281)
A cloud of hydrogen with a bite of dark dust taken out of it: the shape that earned it a video-game name. -
Lagoon and Trifid (M8 and M20)
Two neighbouring nebulae in the heart of the Milky Way: a vast lagoon of hydrogen and its companion cut in three.
