Jeff Hester and Paul Scowen, The Eagle Nebula with Pillars of Creation and Stellar Spire, 1995
Architecture in Space.
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John Goldsmith, Radio Astronomy Telescope with View of a Meteor, the Coalsack Nebula, and the Southern Cross, 2013 (via ikenbot)
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Adam Ferriss, "Cave Nebula" from Conveyor No. 4: Dark Matter, c. 2012
"The Helix Nebula is a large planetary nebula located in the constellation Aquarius. Discovered by Karl Ludwig Harding, probably before 1824, this object is one of the closest to the Earth of all the bright planetary nebulae. The estimated distance is about 215 parsecs or 700 light-years. It is similar in appearance to the Ring Nebula, whose size, age, and physical characteristics are similar to the Dumbbell Nebula, varying only in its relative proximity and the appearance from the equatorial viewing angle."
The Crab Nebula in Six Different Versions of Light (via NASA)
'The High Energy Focusing Telescope (HEFT) is a balloon-borne instrument carrying one of the first focusing telescopes for the hard X-ray band (20–70 keV). It makes use of tungsten-silicon multilayer coatings to extend the reflectivity of nested grazing-incidence mirrors beyond 10 keV. HEFT has an angular resolution of 1.5 arcminutes in half-power diameter, and an energy resolution of 1.0 keV full width at half maximum at 60 keV. HEFT was launched for a 25-hour balloon flight on May 2005. The instrument performed within specification, and observed Cyg X-1, the Crab Nebula.'