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Astronomers using the Very Large Telescope (VLT) of the European Southern Observatory have captured a new image of the nebula IC 2944, also known as the “Running Chicken,” Sci.News reports. IC 2944 is located at a distance of almost 6.5 thousand kilometers. light years from Earth in the constellation Centauri. The brightest zone of the […]
Scientists have uncovered the secrets of MSH 15-52, one of the most amazing pulsar nebulae, also known as the “cosmic hand” or “hand of God”. With the help of two powerful X-ray telescopes, the scientists were able to visualize the “bones” in the ghostly hand, which are magnetic fields. The NASA Chandra X-ray Observatory and […]
About 2,500 light-years away are the remnants of a dying star in the shape of a ring, forming a nebula with the same name – and now, new photos from the James Webb Telescope allow us to see it in more detail. The Ring Nebula, also called NGC 6720 and Messier 57, is a gaseous […]
Ukrainian Vlad Sazhen has discovered a new nebula in the constellation Cepheus and named it “Fallen Soldier” in honor of the memory of fallen Ukrainian soldiers, the discoverer himself reported on AstroBin. In the course of his long research, he found out that this nebula is illuminated by a double star BD+69 1319. It also […]