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The Jewel Box Cluster is an open cluster in the constellation Crux, originally discovered by Nicolas Louis de Lacaille in 1751–1752. This cluster was later named the Jewel Box by John Herschel when he described its appearance as "... a superb piece of fancy jewellery".
📸: VLT/ESO
📸: VLT/ESO
March 2, 2025 at 12:01 PM
The Jewel Box Cluster is an open cluster in the constellation Crux, originally discovered by Nicolas Louis de Lacaille in 1751–1752. This cluster was later named the Jewel Box by John Herschel when he described its appearance as "... a superb piece of fancy jewellery".
📸: VLT/ESO
📸: VLT/ESO
IC 2602 (also known as the Southern Pleiades) is an open cluster in the constellation Carina. Discovered by Abbe Lacaille in 1751 from South Africa, the cluster is easily visible to the unaided eye, and is one of the nearest star clusters, about 486 light-years away from Earth.
March 2, 2025 at 11:57 AM
IC 2602 (also known as the Southern Pleiades) is an open cluster in the constellation Carina. Discovered by Abbe Lacaille in 1751 from South Africa, the cluster is easily visible to the unaided eye, and is one of the nearest star clusters, about 486 light-years away from Earth.
#BurdekinFallsDam has ticked over 200%. #NQFloods
February 8, 2025 at 12:15 PM
#BurdekinFallsDam has ticked over 200%. #NQFloods
The Roman Salute was created by Italian fascists in the 1920s to mock Americans doing the Bellemay Salute created by Francis Bellemay, who wrote the American Pledge of Allegiance. It was adopted by the Nazi Party in 1926. There's no attestation in ancient Roman literature or art of a Roman Salute.
January 21, 2025 at 11:41 PM
The Roman Salute was created by Italian fascists in the 1920s to mock Americans doing the Bellemay Salute created by Francis Bellemay, who wrote the American Pledge of Allegiance. It was adopted by the Nazi Party in 1926. There's no attestation in ancient Roman literature or art of a Roman Salute.
The stunning #PillarsOfCreation imaged by the James Webb Space Telescope #jwst #space #astrophotography
January 17, 2025 at 4:19 AM
The stunning #PillarsOfCreation imaged by the James Webb Space Telescope #jwst #space #astrophotography
#NGC2024 The Flame Nebula, adjacent to #Alnitak in the #Orion constellation. #astronomy #astrophtography #seestarS50
January 17, 2025 at 4:10 AM
#NGC2024 The Flame Nebula, adjacent to #Alnitak in the #Orion constellation. #astronomy #astrophtography #seestarS50
NGC 3372 - the Carina Nebula, is a beautiful area of light and dark nebulosity. Located in the Carina-Sagittarius arm of the Milky Way Galaxy, it's about 8,500 light years from Earth. It's about 4 times larger than Orion, and brighter, but less well known due to being so low in the Southern sky.
January 17, 2025 at 3:57 AM
NGC 3372 - the Carina Nebula, is a beautiful area of light and dark nebulosity. Located in the Carina-Sagittarius arm of the Milky Way Galaxy, it's about 8,500 light years from Earth. It's about 4 times larger than Orion, and brighter, but less well known due to being so low in the Southern sky.