The Bubble Nebula is a star forming region in Cassiopea, featuring a very distinct shell from the massive central star. The main star is actually not in the middle of the bubble, it's to the right in George's image, but the piling up ...

As we enter spooky season, a couple of targets in the night sky become particularly seasonable, one of them being an emissive reflection nebula around the bright star Navi in the constellation of Cassiopeia, named the Ghost of Cassiop...

Wildfire Smoke has negative effects for everybody, and thanks to climate change, hotter drier summers make it more and more prevalent of a nuisance. As annoying- and even dangerous- as it is, one has to admit: it can make for some pretty...

Aurora are caused by changes in geomagnetic activity due to solar activity, collectively referred to as "space weather". The particularly active solar maximum we're in currently has led to an especially frequent and active stretch of ...

The Hubble palette is a false-colour image processing technique designed to enhance and highlight the different regions of star formation within emission nebulae, made popular by the Hubble Space Telescope's frequent use of the distin...

The Seestar roundup for August is complete! With an incredible 16 hours of data combined, plenty of faint dark nebulous detail is visible in this tricky target. For more information about this image, and the links to have a go at proc...

The Elephant's Trunk Nebula (IC1369A) is an area of ionization emission within the much larger nebulous region designated IC1369. It's a popular target for northern hemisphere photographers due to its proximity to the northern celesti...