This towering structure in the Eagle Nebula is a 9.5 light-year-high column of gas and dust from a stellar nursery. This image shows N90, where bright young stars carve a cavity, with distant galaxies ...
The Pacman Nebula measures a worthy 35′ by 30 ... Credit: Daniel Beaulieu Next up is the second (and last) Messier object in the constellation, open cluster M103 (NGC 581).
captures an emission nebula — a bright cloud of ionized gas that emits its own light — located about 6,500 light-years from Earth in the southern Centaurus constellation. Formally, the nebula ...
NASA captured this stunning image of Messier 75 or M75, also known as NGC 6864, which is a giant globular cluster of stars in the southern constellation Sagittarius.