The Soul Nebula
The Soul Nebula in HRGB The Soul Nebula, also known as Westerhout 5 (W5) amongst other names. Located in the constellation Cassiopeia, this celestial body is a…
Thoughts on space, technology, and everything in between.
The Soul Nebula in HRGB The Soul Nebula, also known as Westerhout 5 (W5) amongst other names. Located in the constellation Cassiopeia, this celestial body is a…
Private space companies like SpaceX, Blue Origin, and Virgin Galactic are revolutionizing space exploration with innovations like reusable rockets and ambitious goals for interplanetary travel. These advancements are reshaping the industry, creating opportunities for more competitors and contributing to job creation. Exciting developments are expected in the near future, bringing us closer to the stars as new tourist destinations.
A recent paper explores the hypothesis that life on Earth originated from extraterrestrial sources brought by interstellar objects (ISOs), such as the asteroid…
New research reveals that headwinds made of gas and particles in the protosolar disk can strike planetesimals, throwing rocky debris out into space and…
NGC 281 is more fondly known as the Pacman Nebula. In normal wavelengths this image resembles(ish) the ghost-gobbling Pacman, but here I'm using narrowband SHO…
The Iris Nebula is a reflection nebula 1,300 light years away, illuminated by a partially embedded star (SAO 19158) which is 10X the size of our Sun. The…
I've been enjoying learning Tensorflow, and this awesome Colab lets us invent new creatures and crossbreeds from nothing but code.
The night sky is full of thousands of silhouettes of all many shapes and sizes. In 1919 an astronomer called Edward Barnard created a catalogue of more than 300 of these dark nebula.
[](https://orbitingfrog.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/elephant-trunk-sho2-2.jpg) Elephant's Trunk Nebula SHO 20 light years long, and 2,400 light…
[](https://orbitingfrog.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/deneb-sadr.jpg) Deneb-Sadr and (some of) the Milky Way in Cygnus. Taken from Provence, France.…