Jul 1
The Skull Nebula, NGC 246 // Thiago Gonçalves
seen from Türkiye
seen from China
seen from Argentina
seen from China
seen from Germany
seen from United States
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seen from Jordan
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The Skull Nebula, NGC 246 // Thiago Gonçalves
Jacoby 1 // M.J. Post
The Dumbbell Nebula, M27 // Rabeea Alkuwari
The Flaming Skull Nebula, Sh2-68 // Giacomo Pro'
The Snowglobe Nebula, NGC 6781 // Sascha Wyss
NGC 2818 // Xinran Li
Astronomy Picture of the Day
2006 July 9
NGC 2392 Nebula from Hubble
Credit: Andrew Fruchter (STScI) et al., WFPC2, HST, NASA
Explanation: In 1787, astronomer William Herschel discovered NGC 2392. From the ground, NGC 2392 resembles a person's head surrounded by a parka hood. In 2000, the Hubble Space Telescope imaged NGC 2392. From space, the nebula displays gas clouds so complex they are not fully understood. NGC 2392 is clearly a planetary nebula, and the gas seen above composed the outer layers of a Sun-like star only 10,000 years ago. The inner filaments visible above are being ejected by strong wind of particles from the central star. The outer disk contains unusual light-year long orange filaments.
Authors & editors: Robert Nemiroff (MTU) & Jerry Bonnell (USRA)
NASA Official: Jay Norris.
A service of: EUD at NASA / GSFC
& Michigan Tech. U.
The Ring Nebula, M57 // David Snell