Galactic cirrus

Josh Jones, taken from Pendleton, Oregon Mandel-Wilson 1 (MW1) is not a traditional deep-sky object — rather it is made of extremely faint, wispy gas that lies outside the plane of our galaxy. While it appears to surround Polaris, it is in fact much more distant, lit not by a single star, but the overallContinue reading “Galactic cirrus”
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