StarLab

for this week, with worldwide content, from Digital starlab user Chris Vaughan. Clear skies! (image by Ron Brecher)

The Dippers Dance, Peak Venus and Vesta, and the Evening Moon Covers One of the Crab’s Donkeys! – AstroGeo This spectacular image by “Astrodoc” Ron Brecher of Guelph shows the bright spiral galaxy Messier 81 aka Bode’s Nebula at left and the smaller outburst galaxy Messier 82 aka the Cigar Galaxy at the right. They are near the Great Bear’s nose in Ursa Major. The pair will share the view of even...