Another look on the amazing Eta Carinae Nebula to be seen in our southern night sky. This fabulous structure can be seen in one of the most visibly dense parts of the Milky Way. There are 10s of thousands of stars visible here creating patterns of textured starlight, seemingly empty voids and the stunning Eta […]
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The Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) is a nearby (on cosmological terms) galaxy clearly visible as a small cloud to the naked eye in the southern night sky. As a neighboring galaxy in our local group it is considered a suburb of our own Milky Way galaxy. At around 163,000 light year away it is humbling […]
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At first I thought about calling this image ‘Seeing Stars’ but considering the significance of the fabulous Eta Carinae Nebula I felt compelled to give it the attention it deserves. This tiny piece of the night sky in the Milky Way is only a few widths of the moon across and yet even in this […]
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