- LOBSTER AND CAT
The Lobster Nebula (NGC 6357,
upper left) and the Cat’s Paw Nebula
(NGC 6334) lie in the constellation
Scorpius. These two massive clouds
of hydrogen glow red because their
atoms absorb radiation from nearby
stars and re-emit it as reddish light.
- Gerald Rhemann
- NICE FIND
Patchick 5 is a bipolar planetary
nebula in Cygnus embedded in
faint background nebulosity. Dana
Patchick, a member of the Deep Sky
Hunter team, discovered it in 2005
by scanning digital sky surveys.
- Bernhard Hubl
- RING IN THE NEW
The photographer captured this lunar
halo on New Year’s Eve in 2014 above
his backyard observatory in Missouri.
The bright star within the halo to the
Moon’s left is Aldebaran (Alpha [α]
Taur i). • Jared Bowens - TOP GUN
Did you know that M5 in Serpens is
the brightest globular cluster in the
northern half of the sky? Most amateur
astronomers assume that honor goes
to the Hercules Cluster (M13), but
M5 outshines it by a full tenth of a
magnitude (5.7 vs. 5.8). • Madhup Rathi - NIGHT SKY ABOVE CTIO
Cerro Tololo Inter-American
Observatory in the Coquimbo Region
of northern Chile is one of the darkest
spots on Earth. It stands 7,220 feet
(2,200 meters) above sea level. The
domed building houses the 4-meter
Victor M. Blanco Telescope.
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