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The Iris Nebula
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…
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Sky Silhouette: Barnard 7
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.
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Some of the Milky Way in Cygnus
[](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.…
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UK Eclipse 2015 Photos
[](https://orbitingfrog.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/img7345.jpg) Today's partial Solar eclipse is off to a great start here in Witney, where the…
Tracking A Perseid: Citizen Science in Action
During the Perseid meteor shower, I blogged a video of a bright meteor taken by astrophotographer Mel Gigg. He had shared the image fairly widely and soon…
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Thierry Legault does it again! Utterly incredible movie of the Space Shuttle Discovery as it approaches the International Space Station at 17,000mph. This…