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In one picture, Euclid captured a group shot of 1,000 galaxies in a cluster 240 million light-years away, against a backdrop of more than 100,000 galaxies billions of light-years away. A light ...
The Andromeda Galaxy, for instance, was once referred to as the Andromeda Nebula (and spiral galaxies in general as "spiral nebulae") before the true nature of galaxies was confirmed in the early 20th century by Vesto Slipher, Edwin Hubble, and others. Edwin Hubble discovered that most nebulae are associated with stars and illuminated by starlight.
The Messier catalogue comprises nearly all of the most spectacular examples of the five types of deep-sky object – diffuse nebulae, planetary nebulae, open clusters, globular clusters, and galaxies – visible from European latitudes. Furthermore, almost all of the Messier objects are among the closest to Earth in their respective classes ...
List of the largest nebulae Image Nebula Maximum dimension (in light-years/parsecs) Type Notes Abell 1413 BCG Halo Cloud 6,500,000 ly (2,000,000 pc) [3] Halo of stars Surrounds Abell 1413 BCG, one of the largest galaxies. Slug Nebula [4] 1,500,000 ly (460,000 pc) [5] Enormous Lyα nebula (ELAN) Around the quasar UM287 at around z=2.3.
As with many Webb images, distant galaxies are sprinkled in the background.” Horsehead Nebula: Yeigh or Neigh? 🐴 The Horsehead Nebula is famously known for…looking like a horse’s head.
Box Nebula NGC 6445: 1786 4.5 11.2 Sagittarius: Eye of Sauron Nebula M 1-42: 10 14 Sagittarius
The Cosmic Cliffs at the edge of NGC 3324, one of the first images taken by the James Webb Space Telescope. The Carina Nebula [7] or Eta Carinae Nebula [8] (catalogued as NGC 3372; also known as the Great Carina Nebula [9]) is a large, complex area of bright and dark nebulosity in the constellation Carina, located in the Carina–Sagittarius Arm of the Milky Way galaxy.
It is one of the largest comprehensive astronomical catalogues for deep sky objects such as star clusters, nebulae, and galaxies. List of NGC objects (1–1000) List of NGC objects (1001–2000) List of NGC objects (2001–3000) List of NGC objects (3001–4000) List of NGC objects (4001–5000) List of NGC objects (5001–6000)