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View at EarthSky Community Photos. | Harshwardhan Pathak of India, used a large remote telescope in Chile to seize the galaxy Centaurus A within the constellation Centaurus the Centaur on February 12, 2024. Harshwardhan wrote: “Centaurus A is the fifth brightest galaxy within the sky – making it a really perfect goal for newbie astronomers – and is legendary for the dust lane throughout its center and a large jet blasting away from the supermassive black hole at its middle. Centaurus A is an lively galaxy about 12 million light-years from Earth.” Spectacular shot. Thanks, Harshwardhan! See extra of our editor’s picks from February’s deep-sky pictures right here.
Gorgeous deep-sky pictures from our group
The EarthSky group has many proficient astrophotographers who seize beautiful photographs of the deep sky. So take pleasure in this gallery of a few of the finest deep-sky pictures we obtained in February 2024. Do you’ve gotten a few of your individual deep-sky photographs to share? You may submit them to us here. We like to see them!
View at EarthSky Community Photos. | Ernest Jacobs in North Java, New York, captured the Crab Nebula within the constellation Taurus on February 3, 2024. Ernest wrote: “It had been a number of months since we had a transparent night time. Our astronomy membership’s imaging group assembled at our Darkish Sky Observatory. We name ourselves the Tuesday Night time Imagers, however Tuesday night time could be any night time of the week. Our goal was Messier 1 (M1), aka the Crab Nebula.” Thanks, Ernest!View at EarthSky Community Photos. | Catherine Hyde in Cambria, California, captured a diffuse nebula within the constellation Canis Major on February 12, 2024. It contains the well-known Thor’s Helmet Nebula. Catherine wrote: “This can be a very highly effective distinction with the picture I shared of the tiny Owl Nebula. This can be a big swath of sky. I captured the Seagull Nebula with the a lot smaller Thor’s Helmet within the decrease proper.” Thanks, Catherine!
View at EarthSky Community Photos. | Abdul Thomas of Leeds, United Kingdom, captured the double stars Mizar and Alcor within the constellation Ursa Major on February 2, 2024. Abdul wrote: “These 2 stars are clearly seen with the unaided eye and positioned on the deal with of ‘The Plough’ asterism.” Thanks, Abdul!
Deep-sky pictures of galaxies
View at EarthSky Community Photos. | Harshwardhan Pathak of India, utilizing a big distant telescope in Chile, captured the galaxy NGC 1232 within the constellation Eridanus on February 1, 2024. Harshwardhan wrote: “NGC 1232, also referred to as the Eye of God Galaxy, is an intermediate spiral galaxy about 60 million light-years away. German-British astronomer William Herschel found it on October 20, 1784.” Thanks, Harshwardhan!View at EarthSky Community Photos. | Andrea Iorio in Marino, Rome, Italy, captured the galaxy Messier 81 on February 14, 2024. Andrea wrote: “M81 is likely one of the brightest galaxies within the night time sky. It lies 11.6 million light-years from Earth within the constellation Ursa Main and has an obvious magnitude of 7. The galaxy’s central bulge accommodates a lot older, redder stars. It’s considerably bigger than the Milky Way’s bulge. A black hole of 70 million solar plenty resides on the middle of M81 and is about 15 occasions the mass of the Milky Way’s central black hole.” Thanks, Andrea!
And a supernova in a distant galaxy
View at EarthSky Community Photos. | Ernest Jacobs in North Java, New York, captured supernova SN2024gy within the galaxy NGC 4216 on February 4, 2024. Ernest wrote: “After shedding M1 (the article we have been imaging beforehand) to the muck and bushes close to the horizon, we eliminated the L-extreme filter and went after SN2024gy in NGC 4216. We managed to gather 7 usable exposures earlier than shedding our skies for the night time. This supernova is positioned in a galaxy about 45 million light-years from Earth. The supernova is a Type Ia supernova. Koichi Itagaki found it on January 4, 2024.” Thanks, Ernest!
Backside line: Get pleasure from this gallery of deep-sky pictures for February 2024 from our EarthSky group. And you probably have an important photograph to share, ship it in. We like to see them!
Armando is properly generally known as an astronomy educator, after 30+ years main in depth initiatives of public outreach and 10+ years educating in schools. As certainly one of solely a handful of Puerto Rican science communicators throughout Comet Halley’s final go to, he assumed a pioneering function beginning in 1985 when science was simply starting to enter the native mindset; over time his work introduced significant change to the tradition, inspiring folks to pursue pursuits in science and know-how. His affiliations embrace Ana G. Méndez College–Cupey, the place in 2014 he spearheaded an 8-course extension program specializing in observational astronomy, the primary ever within the island.
