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#UMPlus - Messier 17 by Frank Sackenheim

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This excellent image by astronomer Frank Sackenheim shows the Messier 17 nebula, also cataloged as Gum 81 and Sh2-45. This nebula is ionized by ultraviolet radiation from the young stars in the open star cluster NGC 6618. Messier 17's shape has been sculpted by the stellar winds from these same.....
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#UMPlus - The Heart of Sh2-284

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This infrared image, taken by the Hubble Space Telescope, shows a small portion of the Sh2-284 emission nebula, which can be seen here in its entirety. This immense region of gas and dust is a birthplace for stars, which shine brightly among the clouds of gas and dust. Bright clusters of newborn stars glow.....
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The laser beams of our Very Large Telescope pierce the star-filled sky of the Atacama Desert in #Chile

The lasers create artificial "stars" in the atmosphere, about 90 km above the ground, which then act as guides. By studying how they are blurred by the atmosphere, the telescope's deformable secondary mirror quickly reshapes itself in real time, yielding very sharp images. It’s almost as good as sending the VLT up into space!

Learn more: eso.org/public/images/potw2516

📷 ESO/A. de Burgos Sierra

#UMPlus - Nebula around SY Cancri

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This excellent image by astronomer Prof. Göran Erik Nilsson shows an intriguing nebula surrounding the star SY Cancri, located in the direction of the Cancer constellation. According to the SIMBAD database, this nebula is produced by a Z Cam nova in the binary star system SY Cnc. Classified as a.....
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#UMPlus - Meteorite explodes over Hawaii

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Meteor showers are events in which the sky is filled with trails of cosmic dust, created by material left behind by comets and asteroids that have passed close to Earth's orbit. Occasionally, however, single, slightly larger meteorites appear, which can be a few centimeters in size, large enough to produce an.....
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#UMPlus - #UMPlus - A Planet Destroyed in Helix

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On March 4, 2025, the Chandra X-ray Observatory revealed this image of the Helix Nebula, at the center of which is a mysterious X-ray emission. Astronomers have studied this nebula for over 40 years, and this is the first time such an event has been observed at the center of a planetary nebula. A.....
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#UMPlus - Palomar 13 by Gregg Ruppel

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This image by astronomer Gregg L. Ruppel shows two objects that are as intriguing as they are intriguing. There are many objects in the sky, especially in the Milky Way's halo, whose nature is unclear. Some of these objects are difficult to approach observationally, and for others, there is simply no.....
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