Celestial Star Clusters

Astrophotography capturing stunning star clusters, galaxies, and deep space phenomena, showcasing the beauty and vastness of the universe.

Starry sky, galaxy, nebula
Starry sky, galaxy, nebula
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The sparse star cluster IC 4665 in Ophiuchus above the yellow star Cebalrai or Beta Ophiuchi.
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The Coma Berenices star cluster, Melotte 111, with star glows added from haze in the sky.
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Hundreds of galaxies in the Coma Cluster, Abell 1656.
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Andromeda Galaxy in Portrait Mode
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NGC 1365 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Fornax
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Messier 104, the Sombrero Galaxy in Virgo.
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Messier 44, the Beehive Cluster, also known as Praesepe.
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Star clusters in Cassiopeia with Messier 103.
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Astrophotography of Messier 92 globular cluster with galaxies
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Fornax Cluster of Galaxies
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Orion constellation, Heiligenkreuz, Lower Austria, Austria, Europe
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Messier 64, the Black Eye Galaxy in Coma Berenices.
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By pushing NASAs Hubble Space Telescope to its limits, an international team of astronomers has shattered the cosmic distance record by measuring the farthest galaxy ever seen in the universe. This surprisingly bright infant galaxy, named GN-z11, is seen as it was 13.4 billion years in the past, just 400 million years after the Big Bang. GN-z11 is located in the direction of the constellation of Ursa Major. Read more a href= http //go.nasa.gov/1oSqHad rel= nofollow go.nasa.gov/1oSqHad /a b a href= http //www.nasa.gov/audience/formedia/features/MP_Photo_Guidelines.html rel= nofollow NASA image use policy. /a /b b a href= http //www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/home/index.html rel= nofollow NASA Goddard Space Flight Center /a /b enables NASAs mission through four scientific endeavors Earth Science, Heliophysics, Solar System Exploration, and Astrophysics. Goddard plays a leading role in NASAs accomplishments by contributing compelling scientific knowledge to advance the Agencys mission.
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The star cluster Messier 48 in Hydra the Water Snake
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The Leo Triplet of spiral galaxies, with Messier 65, Messier 66, NGC 3628 and NGC 3593.
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NGC 5128 radio galaxy in the constellation Centaurus.
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The Beehive star cluster with its surrounding stars in Cancer.
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Andromeda galaxy and and sister galaxies M110 above and M32 below. Taken from eastern Colorado, USA, September 6-7 2013. Image taken with digital image stacking.
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The Sunflower Galaxy, also known as Messier 63 or NGC 5055, is a spiral galaxy that lies about 35 million light years away in the northern constellation of Canes Venatici
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The rich star cluster NGC 7789 in Cassiopeia, known as Caroline's Rose Cluster.
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Open cluster NGC 457 in the constellation Cassiopeia. NGC 436 is at upper right and nebula Sharpless 2-188 at left.
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Andromeda Galaxy, Germany, Europe
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Globular cluster, Omega Centauri
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Andromeda Galaxy
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NGC 4565, known as the Needle Galaxy.
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Namibia, Region Khomas, near Uhlenhorst, Astrophoto of spiral galaxy Centaurus A (NGC 5128) with a telescope
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This image shows the spiral galaxy Messier 33 - also known as the Triangular Nebula or Triangulum - with many points of light in the background. The stars shine brightly in the dark night sky. The room is full of various celestial bodies. Bogen, Lower Bavaria
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The Pinwheel Galaxy or Triangulum Galaxy (M33), taken 26 September 2014 from eastern Colorado. Taken with digital focus stacking.
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Colour photograph of an irregular galaxy (NGC 3556) in constellation Ursa Major. Photographed at the Lick Observatory in Sacramento. Dated 20th century
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Open cluster Messier 41 in the constellation Canis Major, below the bright star of Sirius. The small nebula at left is Sharpless 2-301.
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The red carbon star La Superba and the bright galaxy Messier 106.
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Messier 94, the bright face-on spiral galaxy in Canes Venatici.
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The Triangulum Galaxy (NGC 598) in the Local Group of galaxies.
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The galaxy NGC 4395 is shown here in infrared light, captured by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. This dwarf galaxy is relatively small in comparison with our Milky Way galaxy, which is nearly 1,000 times more massive.
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Two large elliptical galaxies, NGC 4889 and NGC 4874 are shown in this image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope.
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The star clusters Messier 46 (left) and Messier 47 (right) in Puppis.
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Messier 77 (NGC 1068), and NGC 1055 are both spiral galaxies located in the constellation Cetus
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Wide-field image frameing the end stars of the Big Dipper's handle; Mizar at top, and Alkaid at bottom.
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The Coma Berenices star cluster with prominent galaxies NGC 4559 and NGC 4565.
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NGC 7331 unbarred spiral galaxy.
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Very bright globular cluster M13 in the constellation Hercules, Messier 13, Bavaria, Germany, Europe
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Spiral galaxy Messier 81 inconstellationUrsa Major
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The M51a Whirlpool Galaxy and surrounding stars
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NGC 4725, spiral galaxy in Coma Berenices.
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The northern spring constellation Canes Venatici below the Big Dipper.
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Comet Wirtanen 46P passing near the Pleiades star cluster.
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NGC 4437 galaxy.
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NGC 891 is a spiral galaxy seen edge-on in the constellation Andromeda. This image was taken using a Cassegrain 14.5" at f/8 and processed with LRGB.
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Spiral galaxy NGC 253
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This image from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer highlights the Andromeda galaxy's older stellar population in blue. A pronounced warp in the disk of the galaxy, the aftermath of a collision with another galaxy, can be seen in the spiral arm.
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Comet C/2014 Q2 (Lovejoy) is one of more than 32 comets imaged by NASA's NEOWISE mission from December 2013 to December 2014. This image of comet Lovejoy combines a series of observations made in November 2013.
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Triangulum Galaxy, Messier 33.
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47 Tucanae (NGC104), Globular Cluster in Tucana
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The well-known Andromeda Galaxy, Messier 31, with its companion galaxies.
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Comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF) passing Mars in the constellation of Taurus.
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The constellation of Lyra the Harp just off the Milky Way.
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Comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF).
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Messier 13, Hercules Globular Cluster.
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M13 Hercules Cluster globular star cluster in Hercules constellation
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The aptly-named Coathanger Cluster, an asterism of stars in Vulpecula.
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NGC 4388, spiral galaxy in the Virgo Cluster.
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M51 whirlpool galaxy wide field
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NGC 3628 along with M65 and M66 form the famous Leo Triplet, a small group of galaxies
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Barred spiral galaxy NGC4236 in Draco constellation
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On April 30, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope observed Comet ISON again. The comet is in the upper middle, showing the long tail. Various galaxies and stars appear behind it. In this image, Hubble trained its telescope on the stars instead of following the comet. The result is that the comet appears fuzzier, but the stars and galaxies are more detailed and precise. These dimmer features don't pop out if the camera is moving, following along with ISON. To see them, you really need to dwell in one place until they emerge from the noise.
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This is one of the first images captured by the revived NEOWISE mission, after more than two years of hibernation. It shows a patch of sky in the constellation Canes Venatici, or the Hunting Dogs.
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A trip past the sun may have selectively altered the production of one form of water in a comet - an effect not seen by astronomers before, a new NASA study suggests. Astronomers from NASAs Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, observed the Oort cloud comet C/2014 Q2, also called Lovejoy, when it passed near Earth in early 2015. Through NASAs partnership in the W. M. Keck Observatory on Mauna Kea, Hawaii, the team observed the comet at infrared wavelengths a few days after Lovejoy passed its perihelion - or closest point to the sun. The team focused on Lovejoys water, simultaneously measuring the release of H2O along with production of a heavier form of water, HDO. Water molecules consist of two hydrogen atoms and one oxygen atom. A hydrogen atom has one proton, but when it also includes a neutron, that heavier hydrogen isotope is called deuterium, or the “D” in HDO. From these measurements, the researchers calculated the D-to-H ratio - a chemical fingerprint that prov
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This image from NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX) shows Messier 94, also known as NGC 4736, in ultraviolet light. It is located 17 million light-years away in the constellation Canes Venatici.
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Orange Mars, at centre, between the blue Pleiades (at right) and the large Hyades (at left) star clusters.
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Comet Giacobini-Zinner
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This ultraviolet image from NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer is of the globular cluster NGC 1851 in the southern constellation Columba.
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Andromeda Galaxy
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Messier 83, the Southern Pinwheel Galaxy.
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Magenta spots in this image from NASA's NuSTAR show two black holes in the Circinus galaxy, located 13 million light-years from Earth in the Circinus constellation.
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Triangulum galaxy M33 in the constellation Triangulum in deep space
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NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer took this image on May 21 and 22, 2003. The image was made from data gathered by the two channels of the spacecraft camera during the mission's first
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Constellation of Pleiades (Seven Sisters). 3 1/2 hour exposure using a 5 inch aperture portrait lens. Photograph c1890
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Omega Centauri globular cluster.
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Colour photograph of the spiral galaxy (NGC 253) in constellation Cetus. Photographed at the Lick Observatory in Sacramento. Dated 20th century
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ISS006-E-40545 (March 2003) --- The bowl and a portion of the “handle” stars of the Big Dipper are visible in this photograph taken by astronaut Donald R. Pettit, Expedition Six NASA ISS science officer, on board the International Space Station (ISS).
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Photograph of a spiral galaxy in coma bernices seen edge-on, showing central plane of obscuring matter. Photographed by James Edward Keeler with the Crossley 36-inch reflector at Lick Observatory. James Edward Keeler (1857-1900) an American astronomer. Dated 20th century
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Messier 101, spiral galaxy in Ursa Major.
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Comet Lovejoy's long ion tail in Taurus.
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Comet Lovejoy, C/2014 Q2 amid the clusters, nebulas and dark dust clouds of Taurus and Perseus, on Friday, January 16, 2016. Its long blue ion tail stretches back at least 15°, almost to the open cluster NGC 1647 on Taurus at the left edge. At centre is the Pleiades star cluster, M45; at top right is the red California Nebula, NGC 1499, in Perseus, while the field is filled with the dark dusty lanes of the Taurus Dark Clouds. At left is the red giant star Aldebaran amid the V-shaped Hyades star
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So Coldplay isn't the only one to see a sky full of stars, these are 22K light-years away Located approximately 22,000 light-years away in the constellation of Musca (The Fly), this tightly packed collection of stars known as a globular cluster goes by the name of NGC 4833. This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image shows the dazzling stellar group in all its glory. NGC 4833 is one of the over 150 globular clusters known to reside within the Milky Way. These objects are thought to contain some of the oldest stars in our galaxy. Studying these ancient cosmic clusters can help astronomers to unravel how a galaxy formed and evolved, and give an idea of the galaxy’s age. Globular clusters are responsible for some of the most striking sights in the cosmos, with hundreds of thousands of stars congregating in the same region of space. Hubble has observed many of these clusters during its time in orbit around our planet, each as breathtaking as the last. bit.ly/2b85p36
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Galaxies Messier 81 and Messier 82 in the constellation Ursa Major.
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Stunning constellation from the emission nebula Orion Nebula M42 in the night sky over Germany in February 2023
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NGC 5139, Omega Centauri globular cluster in Centaurus.
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Messier 101, NGC 5457, Pinwheel Galaxy or Firewheel Galaxy, Germany, Europe
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This image of the nearby spiral galaxy NGC 300 was taken by NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer in a single orbit exposure of 27 minutes on October 10, 2003.
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Seine et Marne. At the heart of the constellation Hunting Dogs (Canes venatici) a galaxy (M51 - Whirlpool) seems lost among the stars.
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The bright spiral galaxy M101, with a number of its nearby galaxies in Ursa Major.
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Messier 13, The Great Globular Cluster in Hercules. The cluster contains about 300,000 stars.
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This delicate blue group of stars actually an irregular galaxy named IC 3583 sits some 30 million light-years away in the constellation of Virgo (The Virgin). It may seem to have no discernable structure, but IC 3583 has been found to have a bar of stars running through its center. These structures are common throughout the Universe, and are found within the majority of spiral, many irregular, and some lenticular galaxies. Two of our closest cosmic neighbors, the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds, are barred, indicating that they may have once been barred spiral galaxies that were disrupted or torn apart by the gravitational pull of the Milky Way. Researchers at the University of Leicester, England note there are two types of irregular galaxy. Type I's are usually single galaxies of peculiar appearance. They contain a large fraction of young stars, and show the luminous nebulae that are also visible in spiral galaxies. Type II irregulars include the group known as interacting or di
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NGC 3718 galaxy i the constellation Ursa Major.