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Nic Kleinhans @thebignic.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

#Astrophotography As a child, I always looked at the Pleiades as a small Great Bear. And with my fisrst small newton telescope, I observed this open cluster with fascination. Now as an astrophotographer, it truly blows my mind, the dust clouds are so beautiful. Universe is a real mind blowing place

À patch of cosmic dust and gaz, in the blue-ish, forming like a sheriff star. In the dust seven very bright and blue stars, that arebilluminating this Nebula.

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Nic Kleinhans @thebignic.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

#astrophotography Squids are ocean’ animals, but for once, 2’300 light-years away, one is hiding 1’000 ly behind another typical sky inhabitant, a red flying bat (Sh2-129). The Squid Nebula (Ou4) is a bipolar planetary nebula, with its star bright blue in its center. Our universe is incredible …

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Nic Kleinhans @thebignic.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

NGC7331 with it’s brand new supernova almost at its center, and the Stephen’s Quintet on the low right corner. NGC7331 is some 45 Mio light-years away from us, but its supernova shines like one star of our own Milky Way. Incredible the energy exposed in such an event. I Love my universe …

A spiral galaxy on the center of the image, Seen from almost the side, and surounded by many little galaxies. Almost in the center of this Galaxy a star is signed with two red lines, showing the Supernova 2026aaiv, which appeared on the 1st of September 2026. On the right low corner, 5 small galaxies are grouped together in a thought dance.

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Nic Kleinhans @thebignic.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

High resolution version on my Astrobin account : app.astrobin.com/u/TheBigNic

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Nic Kleinhans @thebignic.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

#Astrophotography Not only in Champagne are bubbles nice, as a nebula some 7 to 10 thousand light-years away, this one is a pretty big, but also a beautiful one. Name ist SH2-162 or NGC7635. Taken yesterday from Switzerland.

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Nic Kleinhans @thebignic.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

#Astrophotography The Eagle Nebula, spreading its light in the dark Sommer sky. At the bottom of the light blue-pinkish spot you could find the well known “Pillars of Creation”. I love the light and colors produced by our incredible universe …

A bright nebula, the center light-blueish, the sides more in the reds, and the whole in a shape of a giant bird deploying its wings across a dark sky with a lot of small bright stars.

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Nic Kleinhans @thebignic.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

#Astrophotography Most of the nebulas are bright objects, emitting or reflecting light. But sometimes they are just dust clouds, hidden in the sky, colorless ghosts floating in the void. Here the Ghost Nebula, or SH2-136, some 1’470 light-years away. Our universe is just fabulous!

On the background of a cosmic dark sky, with some stars featured as bright dots, white dust clouds are floating, with one in the center illuminating by a nearby star hidden behind the dust. On the opposite side of this dust cloud, in a darker part, a red light is emitted, probably from some star forming in the cloud itself.

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Nic Kleinhans @thebignic.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

#Astrophotography Remember, in H2G2, the book serie, the guy who designed the fjords of Norway got a prize for it? I think the person who designed the nebulas deserve something like that. See the colors, and the dark patches? The Iris Nebula is the next door flower Nebula, and it’s just fabulous 🤩

A blue blowing cosmic nebula in the form of an iris flower, bordered with some dark brownish clouds of dust.

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Nic Kleinhans @thebignic.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

. exploded in one of the external arm of the spiral. In this picture, taken the 23. of July, with only a quarter of an hour of exposure, the supernova appears as bright as the stars of our galaxy, and almost brighter as the galaxy itself. The universe is full of wonder …

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Nic Kleinhans @thebignic.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

#Astrophotography NGC3310 is a Grand Design Spiral Galaxy situated some 45 million of light-years in the Great Bear. 100 million years ago, it has proably an encounter with an another galaxy, producing a burst of new stars and some disturbance in the Design. Now, the 8. of July, a supernova ...

A small spiral Galaxy in a very dark sky with a few star. On the eleven of this galaxy, a very big bright star is seen.

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Nic Kleinhans @thebignic.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

#Astrophotography What’s the name of this Nebula, situated in Cygnus, some 1’800 light-years from us? Make a guess. Yes, correct, it’s the Pelican Nebula, an HII region on the side of the North American Nebula. Enjoy it now, because it will morph in something else in some millions of years …

Dark sky with a lot of small stars on the upper, then a pale red nebula on the lower half of the picture, resembling a pelican view from the side.

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Nic Kleinhans @thebignic.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

#astrophotography What’s the most seen cosmos picture? Probably the “Pillars of Creation”, in the Eagle Nebula, made by Hubble in 1995 and 2014. So, impossible not to try them, just to see what a infrastructure budget’s difference of some billions will make …

A lot of dark dust clouds with an open cluster of star in the middle of the pictures. Just under the middle of the picture, three pillars of interstellar dust are sculpted by the stellar wind.

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Nic Kleinhans @thebignic.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

… but two time the size and with a lot more stars. But it seems to produce less new stars than the Milky Way, making it a bit like an old aunt of us, maybe visiting later, to see the family. Universe is just incredibly great …

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Nic Kleinhans @thebignic.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

#Astrophotography The Great Neighbour, Andromeda, Messier 31, maybe coming to visit us, in some 4 to 10 billion years … Because you know, 2.5 Mio light-years distance to travel, even speeding at 110km/s, is a long way … Andromeda is known to be the half of the mass of our galaxy, the Milky Way…

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Nic Kleinhans @thebignic.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

… on the precedent expelled material. This star (HD192163) will probably explode in supernova in the next 100’000 years. Our universe is simply gorgeous!

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Nic Kleinhans @thebignic.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

#Astrophotography The Crescent Nebula NGC6888, in Cygnus, some 5’000 ly away. A complex interaction between the expelled outer layer of a giant star and, 200’000 years later, the same star producing a super fast stellar wind its surrounding gases, creating a tremendous shockwave when catching …

A delicate orange-gold cloud in the shape of a human brain lays in the middle of the picture, surrounded on the left by a red cloud of hot cosmic gas, and on the right by a dark sky with a lot of colorful little dots that are stars.

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Nic Kleinhans @thebignic.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

#astrophotography The Western Veil Nebula, also named Witch’s Broom, 2’400 light-years away from us in Cygnus. The whole Nebula is the remnant of a supernova and is named the Cygnus Loop. The giant star in the center is 52-Cygni, 14 times bigger but only 2 times heavier than our sun, 291 ly away.

A cosmic cloud in the form of a witch’s broom, with red and green veils, and just under the middle of the cloud a giant star. The sky around is dark with thousand of little white or red dots, that are the other stars of our galaxy.

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Nic Kleinhans @thebignic.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

#Astrophotography The emission nebula NGC6920 and its open cluster NGC6923 in its center. I love the pillars of cosmic dust “surging” on the lower right of the main cloud, pointing to the center of the cluster. The nebula is approx 6’000 light-years from us in Vulpecula. June 27, 2026.

A red cloud of galactic gaz with a dozen of bright blue stars in the center, and some cosmic dust pillars on the low right pointing to the stars in the center

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Astropotamus 🔭🦛 @astropotamus.com · 25/06/2026

About 62% of your body is made of hydrogen that has existed since the beginning of time. 37% of you was made by the cores of stars converting hydrogen to other things. The remainder of you is made from particles created by exploding and colliding stars!

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Nic Kleinhans @thebignic.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

#astrophotography A detail of the Veil Nebula, not so far from us (2’400 ly) which is a remanent of a supernova approx. 20 time the mass of our sun that exploded some 10-20’000 years ago. Universe will always be marvelous 🤩

Nebula clouds swirling in blue and pink on a foreground and background of hundreds of stars from our galaxy

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Nic Kleinhans @thebignic.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Live fast, die young, and leave a beautiful scene to the science … Incredible how beautiful is the universe, every time, everywhere …

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Nic Kleinhans @thebignic.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

#Astrophotography The Bubble Nebula (NGC7635) is an emission nebula, a gaz bubble pushed by the stellar wind of a young and hot star, almost at the center of the bubble. The star is approx 2 millions years old, but to produce such a wind (1’800 to 2’500 km/s) it already lost some 25% of its mass.

Something looking like a soap bubble is levitating above a irradiated nebula cloud, ina dark sky full of stars.

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Nic Kleinhans @thebignic.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

#Astrophotography NGC 7380 and the Wizard Nebula, approx. 7-8‘000 ly in the Milky Way. An open cluster of 50-100 stars illuminating the Nebula around it. 240 minutes of exposition, no filters. To be noted the dark patch on the left slightly up, don’t know the name of that dark cloud …

A red-pink nebula boarding the down and right side of an open cluster of approx. fifty to hundred stars in a sky full of stars of the Milky Way

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Nic Kleinhans @thebignic.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

#Astrophotography NGC281 - The Pacman Nebula, 9‘600 ly from us, is an émission Nebula, hot gazes irradiated from young stars clusters. Taken yesterday, only 19 minutes of exposition.

A red Nebula on top of the Image, looking a bit like a Pacman. A lot of Stars from our galaxy are everywhere.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 12/06/2026

Embarrassed Woman Scrambles To Stop Emotionally Resonating With Movie Before Lights Come On

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Nic Kleinhans @thebignic.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

“I am the eye in the sky, looking at you…” Jupiter and Venus, evening sky in June 2026.

Two little white dots in an evening dark blue sky, with the black shape of a tree on the left and of a house on the right

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Nic Kleinhans @thebignic.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

#Astrophotography My take this week of NGC 5907, 46.5 millions of light-years away, and showing us a new supernova, SN 2026 kid, discovered the 22 of April by Yasuo Sano All the other stars in this picture belong to our galaxy and are “only” some thousand of light-years away.

A galaxy seen from the edge, going from the right up corner of the picture to the lower left. Some dark clouds are laying along the ridge of the disc. At some distance of the center of the galaxy in the direction of the lower left shine a supernova that belong that galaxy, shining like the other stars of this picture, but these belong to our galaxy and are “only” some thousands of light-years away , not millions …

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Nic Kleinhans @thebignic.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Interesting info, I was not aware of such a process. Of what material is the mirror itself made, and what’s its weight?

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Nic Kleinhans @thebignic.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

#astrophotography Messier 5 and the star 5-Serpentis M5 is a globular cluster of more than 500k stars, approx. 25kly from us, and contains also two millisecond pulsars. 5-Serpentis is a double star 82ly from us

A golular cluster of more than 500k stars in the middle of the picture, at 8 o’clock of the cluster a bright star, both surrounded with a sky full of faint stars of all colors.

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Nic Kleinhans @thebignic.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

#Astrophotography The North America nebula, left, and a part of The Pelican right, taken last Tuesday with my RedCat 51 V3. The labeled star right from “Florida” is the star that ionize both nebulas. It’s very faint, because it lays behind the dark cloud that separates the two nebulas.

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Nic Kleinhans @thebignic.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

#Astrophotography My first take with my new WO RedCat 51 WIFD and my ASI585MC Pro. The Virgo Cluster around M86 with, going to the left-up, the most of the Markarian’s Chain. Processed in PixInsight, 90 minutes of integration. Not bad for a first light of a new instrument 😅

Night sky with some faints galaxies, libeled, of the Virgo Complex.

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Nic Kleinhans @thebignic.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

#Astrophotography The Ring Nebula, in Lyra. A planetary nebula born after the expulsion of material from its star, 3’200 years ago. The nebula is 6 yl wide and 2’500 ly away.