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Crescent Nebula and Wolf-Rayet Star

Back in June, we had a glimpse of the incredible Crescent Nebula, located 5,000 light-years away in the constellation Cygnus. This giant bubble of gas was formed by a Wolf-Rayet star called WR 136, which shed its outer layers. Now its powerful stellar wind is driving particles at 3,000 km/s and...

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Sunflowers of the Universe

I took this photo back in May. It was hot then and entropy was growing every day. But at night, despite the flares, I was immersed in the darkness of the Universe, remembering #Astrohat and you, my admirers of beauty. And I also remembered - I have never observed M63 in my Dobsonian and that is a...

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The Milky Way as a river

Yesterday I played around with the Milky Way a bit. Our own galaxy amazes and excites me every night. #Astrohouse...

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Bode’s Galaxy spirals 12 million light-years away

Gossip from deep space! I managed to film a real intergalactic striptease. The famous Bode Galaxy (M81) got into the frame, shamelessly spinning its lush spiral arms right in the middle of the constellation Ursa Major! We arranged a total photo hunt for it. 1 hour and 4 minutes of pure photo...

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Sombrero (M104) captured

An astrophotographer-guerrilla with the help of an ultra-compact reconnaissance complex broke through the intergalactic blockade and successfully completed an 87-minute special operation to capture photons! While the personnel at the Earth command post were taking a tactical pause over a cup of tea,...

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