Nebulae

The Heavenly Birthplace of Stars

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Beautiful Color Photos and Summaries of Nebulae:

Dark Nebulae:

    CG4: A Ruptured Cometary Globule
    IC 2944: Dark Bok Globules
    M8: An Open Cluster in the Lagoon
    M16: Dust and an Open Cluster
    M16: Eagle EGGs
    M16: Stars Upon Pillars
    M17: The Majestic Swan Nebula
    M20: The Trifid Nebula
    M20: Hot Stars in the Trifid Nebula
    M42: Orion Nebula Mosaic
    M42: Orion's Horsehead Nebula
    M42: Proplyds - Infant Solar Systems
    NGC 3324: Keyhole Nebula
    NGC 6520: Bright Stars and Dark Clouds
    NGC 6530: Close-Up of the Lagoon Nebula
    NGC 6530: Close-Up of the Hourglass
    A Mysterious Cone Nebula
    The Pipe Dark Nebula
    The Colorful Clouds of Rho Ophiuchi
    The Snake Nebula in Ophiuchus

Emission Nebulae:

    GK Per: The Firework Nebula
    HH-47 Star Jet
    LMC X-1: A Black Hole Candidate
    M1: The Crab Nebula
    M1: The Exploding Crab Nebula
    M8: An Open Cluster in the Lagoon
    M8: The Lagoon's Hourglass
    M16: Dust and an Open Cluster
    M16: Eagle EGGs
    M16: Stars Upon Pillars
    M16: Nebula With Star Cluster
    M16: Dust and an Open Cluster
    M17: The Majestic Swan Nebula
    M20: The Trifid Nebula
    M20: Hot Stars in the Trifid Nebula
    M27: The Dumbbell Nebula
    M42: Orion's Horsehead Nebula
    M42: Orion Nebula Mosaic
    M42: The Great Nebula in Orion
    M45: Seven Sisters Versus California
    M57: The Ring Nebula
    M81: An X-ray Hot Supernova
    NGC 2237: The Rosette Nebula
    NGC 2244: Star Cluster in the Rosette
    NGC 2440 Nucleus: The Hottest Star?
    NGC 4361: Galaxy Shaped Planetary Nebula
    NGC 5189: A Strange Planetary Nebula
    NGC 6523: A Close-Up of the Lagoon
    NGC 6543: The Cat's Eye Nebula
    NGC 6960/95: Cygnus Loop Shockwave
    R136: Stellar Violence in 30 Doradus
    R Aquarii: Symbiotic Star System
    Shapley 1: An Annular Planetary Nebula
    Antares and Rho Ophiuchi
    Bopp, Jupiter, and the Milky Way
    A Mysterious Cone Nebula
    Eta Carinae Before Explosion
    North America Nebula
    Nova Cygni 1992
    Red Rectangle
    Colorful Clouds of Rho Ophiuchi
    Superbubbles in the LMC
    Supernova 1987a Aftermath
    The Tarantula and the Supernova

Planetary Nebulae:

    CRL 2688: Shells in the Egg Nebula
    CRL 2688: Searchlight Beams
    Hen 1357: New Born Nebula
    Hubble 5 Planetary Nebula
    IC 4406: A Seemingly Square Nebula
    M2-9: The Butterfly Planetary Nebula
    M27: The Dumbbell Nebula
    M57: The Ring Nebula
    MyCn18: An Hourglass Nebula
    MyCn 18: Eye of an Hourglass Nebula
    NGC 2440 Nucleus: The Hottest Star?
    NGC 2440: Cocoon of a New White Dwarf
    NGC 3242: Planetary Nebula
    NGC 4361: Galaxy Shaped Nebula
    NGC 5189: A Strange Planetary Nebula
    NGC 5307: Symmetric Planetary Nebula
    NGC 5882: A Small Planetary Nebula
    NGC 6537: The Red Spider Nebula
    NGC 6543: The Cat's Eye Nebula
    NGC 6543: The Cat's Eye (Revisited)
    NGC 6826: The Blinking Eye
    NGC 7027: Planetary Nebula in Infrared
    NGC 7027: A Dying Star's Nebula
    NGC 7027: A Dying Star's Nebula
    NGC 7293: The Helix Nebula
    NGC 7293: At the Edge of the Helix
    NGC 7293: Cometary Knots in the Helix
    NGC 7662: The Blue Snowball Nebula
    NGC 7662: Blue Snowball Planetary Nebula
    Shapley 1: An Annular Planetary Nebula

Reflection Nebulae:

    B33: Orion's Horsehead Nebula
    IC 2220: The Toby Jug Nebula
    M45: The Pleiades Star Cluster
    NGC 1977: Blue Reflection Nebula
    Antares and Rho Ophiuchi

Supernova Remnants:

    DEM L 316: Colliding Supernova Remnants
    IC 443: Rays From
    N132D: Cooking Elements In The LMC
    NGC 6960: Rampaging Fronts - Veil Nebula
    R136: Violent Star Cluster 30 Doradus
    SN 1006: Pieces of the Cosmic Ray Puzzle
    Doomed Star Eta Carinae
    The Radio Sky: Tuned to 408MHz
    Vela Supernova Remnant in Optical
    Vela Supernova Remnant in X-ray
    The Frothy Milky Way
    Supernova Remnant and Neutron Star
    ROSAT Explores the X-Ray Sky
    The Mysterious Rings of Supernova 1987a
    Tycho's Supernova Remnant in X-ray
    Ray Observatory
    The X-Ray Sky

Nebulae:

    B 33: A Close-Up of the Horsehead
    HH1/HH2: Star Jets
    Henize 70: A SuperBubble In The LMC
    IC 2118: The Witch Head Nebula
    M1: Filaments of the Crab Nebula
    M1: The Pulsar Powered Crab
    M8: Twistin' by the Lagoon
    M8: Starbirth in the Lagoon
    M16: Eagle Castle
    M16: From Eagle's EGGs A Star Is Born
    M20: Infrared Trifid
    M20: Hydrogen Trifid
    M42: The Great Nebula in Orion
    M42: A Mosaic of Orion's Great Nebula
    M42: Planetary Systems Now Forming
    M42: Infrared Horsehead
    NGC 604: In the Center
    NGC 604: Giant Stellar Nursery
    NGC 2237 : The Rosette Nebula
    NGC 2264 IRS: Young Suns
    NGC 2359: A Wolf-Rayet Star Bubble
    NGC 2359: Bubbles and Arcs
    NGC 3324: The Keyhole Nebula
    NGC 3324: Center of the Keyhole Nebula
    NGC 6589: Nebulosity in Sagittarius
    NGC 6960/95: The Cygnus Loop
    NGC 7009: The Saturn Nebula
    Cold Wind From The Boomerang Nebula
    The Brightest Star Yet Known

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