Like a giant sandworm, this enormous stream of interstellar gas and dust winds its way through the sea of stars. My image shows a small section of a vast cloud that meanders across the southern sky. MW9, the Southern Celestial
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A Sandworm in the Southern Celestial Serpent MW9
Total Solar Eclipse in Spain 2026
Finally, another solar eclipse in Europe—and one we could reach by car! It was obvious that millions of people would be traveling to the path of totality during the peak tourist season in August. That’s why we’d booked a hotel
Read moreA Magic of Colors in Scorpio and Libra
In April 2026, I once again had the opportunity to photograph the array of colorful nebulae in the constellations Scorpio and Libra in Rooisand using a 50mm lens. A palette of colors created by stars, gas, and dust. Red emission
Read moreTrifid Nebula – M20
The Trifid Nebula (M20) is a rare combination of a red emission nebula, a blue reflection nebula, and dark dust lanes. An extremely hot, young multiple star at its center has so much energy that it causes hydrogen gas to
Read morePart of the Dark-Wolf-Nebula
My image shows a small section of the Dark Wolf Nebula. This nebula, in turn, is part of the large molecular cloud in the constellation Lupus (the Wolf), about 500 times the size of our full moon and only about
Read moreMermaid Nebula – ESO 217-25
An impressive sea creature in the constellation Centaurus. My image shows the ghostly remnant of a stellar explosion, often referred to as the “Mermaid Nebula.” What appears here as an elegant web of luminous blue filaments and red shock fronts
Read moreWishing Well Cluster – NGC3532
Because of the arrangement of its stars, it is called the Wishing Well Star Cluster—the sparkling cluster on the left side of my photo. The roughly 150 bright stars look like silver coins tossed into the bottom of a wishing
Read moreDark Wolf Nebula – SL17
The Wolf Nebula, also known as the Fenrir Nebula (SL17), is a fascinating dark nebula in the constellation Scorpio, located just about 6,200 light-years away. It is a striking accumulation of cosmic dust that blocks the light of thousands of
Read moreThread-like Network of Filaments in Vela SNR
It looks like a neural network. Its delicate branches resemble the system of arteries and capillaries in the human body. Or it resembles the underground, thread-like networks of fungi in the forest floor. Actually, my image shows a fascinating section
Read morePearl Cluster – NGC3766
Set against the colorful Milky Way above Namibia, the Pearl Cluster glows softly in the lower left corner. It contains blue-white stars that, at about 20 million years old, are very young by astronomical standards. What makes this special, however,
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