Among the 11 nights between July and August that I spent shooting the Flying Bat nebula to accumulate a total exposure time of 39.5 hours, I was very lucky to capture Comet C/2023 E1 Atlas on Aug ...

This indicates that the squid isn't a planetary nebula after all. In fact, it isn't even powered by one star, but three of them. The stellar energetic outflows from the stars, which comprise HR ...

The Squid Nebula is a recent discovery, first spotted by French astrophotographer Nicolas Outters in 2011. Génier has done a wonderful job teasing out its details in this photo, which was taken ...

The Giant Squid Nebula and More Animals of the Cosmos. As galaxies collide and new stars are born, spectacular shapes form in the universe—and many of them resemble Earthly creatures.

Spiral galaxy Messier 77, also called the Squid Galaxy, sits 45 million light-years away in the constellation Cetus (The Whale). The name Squid Galaxy refers to the extended, filamentary structure ...

Among the 11 nights between July and August that I spent shooting the Flying Bat nebula to accumulate a total exposure time of 39.5 hours, I was very lucky to capture Comet C/2023 E1 Atlas on Aug ...