Update: This is now confirmed (as of 03/23/2012) that it is a Type IIp supernova in M95. A few days ago (March 18-19) there were reports of Supernova in M95 a bar-spiral galaxy which is 38 million light years away. The type of the supernova is yet to be determined. If confirmed, this will be …
Pleiades, M45, Seven Sisters, Kṛttikā (Sanskrit) are the names of this magnificent and largest open cluster visible in the night sky. It does so in the night sky as it is the nearest to us(~400 light years). The cluster contains almost 1000 stars consisting of many “blue” stars. Normally, through small-medium telescopes, it is not …
Leo Triplets – M65, M66 and NGC 3628 (missing in the photo) Leo Triplets are cluster of galaxies about 35 million light years away. This group is also known as M66 group. In the image, M65 is near the top left corner while the second galaxy M66 is towards bottom right. The triplet (NGC3628) is …
M81 (Bode’s galaxy) and M82 are part of a group of galaxies in Ursa Major. Both galaxies are bright galaxies easily visible with a small telescope. M81 is a spiral galaxy while M82 looks like irregular galaxy (however Hubble photos recently discovered that it might be a spiral galaxy as well). This image of M81 …