Herschel’s Eagle Nebula, Some 6,500 Light-years Away.

The Milky Way was so very alive this weekend in the backcountry.. Hope you all had a chance to look up and watch the cosmos whiz by.. #stars #nightphotography #nightsky #darksky #adventure

Charon and Pluto: Strikingly Different Worlds

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VdB 141 Region Nebulosity by Jeffrey Weiss on Flickr.

Comet Catalina Emerges : Comet Catalina is ready for its close-up. The giant snowball from the outer Solar System, known formally as C/2013 US10 tails, making it an impressive object for binoculars and long-exposure cameras. The featured image was taken last week from the Canary Islands, off the northwest coast of Africa. Sky enthusiasts around the world will surely be tracking the comet over the next few months to see how it evolves. via NASA

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Saturn in three bands of infrared light.

M8 // Lagoon Nebula (left of center) & M20 // The Trifid (bottom)

 Solar filaments a.k.a. prominences – when observed at the solar limb (above), are long clouds of partially ionized plasma suspended above the Sun’s surface by strongly sheared magnetic structures, called filament channels, that can support the dense plasma against solar gravity. Filaments may form at various locations on the Sun, however, they are always found within preexisting filament channels above polarity inversion lines which separate areas of opposite magnetic polarity regions.

Credit: NASA/SDO/LMSAL

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Sh2-119 Sharpless 119,emission nebular in Narrowband by Paul C. Swift on Flickr.

Milky Way over Shelbyville, Indiana

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