Astronomy Picture of the Day - Deep Nebulas: From Seagull to California

NASA ^ | 23 Jan, 2024 | Image Credit & Copyright: Alistair Symon

[MtnClimber]

Explanation: How well do you know the night sky? OK, but how well can you identify famous sky objects in a very deep image? Either way, here is a test: see if you can find some well-known night-sky icons in a deep image filled with faint nebulosity. This image contains the Pleiades star cluster, Barnard's Loop, Horsehead Nebula, Orion Nebula, Rosette Nebula, Cone Nebula, Rigel, Jellyfish Nebula, Monkey Head Nebula, Flaming Star Nebula, Tadpole Nebula, Aldebaran, Simeis 147, Seagull Nebula and the California Nebula. To find their real locations, here is an annotated image version. The reason this task might be difficult is similar to the reason it is initially hard to identify familiar constellations in a very dark sky: the tapestry of our night sky has an extremely deep hidden complexity. The featured composite reveals some of this complexity in a mosaic of 28 images taken over 800 hours from dark skies over Arizona, USA.

[MtnClimber]

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[Red Badger]

Space is a violent place.......................

[MtnClimber]

Just wait until Betelgeuse goes supernova!

[Red Badger]

We’ll have a front row seat!....................

[Red Badger]

Betelgeuse is the only star visible from Earth as a disk and not a point of light.................

[sit-rep]

strange that after years of seeing the nebulas like Orion’s and others, I never seen any with this gold clouding. Did this just happen within the past week or were the thousands of pics seen to date get this gold clouding photoshopped out of it??

[No name given]

Wow.

[MtnClimber]

I am guessing that filters were used to keep the brighter stars from washing out the fainter nebulas in the long exposures.

[minnesota_bound]

Just say: Betelgeuse 3 times and it will go supernova.

[telescope115]

The Pleadies were easy.