{"id":201780,"date":"2025-10-10T01:31:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T01:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/201780\/"},"modified":"2025-10-10T01:31:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T01:31:10","slug":"cosmic-baboon-rampages-through-deep-space-in-gorgeous-new-nebula-photo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/201780\/","title":{"rendered":"Cosmic baboon rampages through deep space in gorgeous new nebula photo"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Raging Baboon Nebula, as captured by astrophotographer Greg Meyer in 2025. (Image credit: Greg Meyer)<\/p>\n

Astrophotographer Greg Meyer has captured a star-studded nebula<\/a> scene that conjures the image of a colossal baboon raging in the depths of space.<\/p>\n

The outline of the cosmic simian’s mouth and face are sculpted from a colossal cloud of molecular dust located some 500 light-years from Earth<\/a> in the constellation Corona Australis<\/a>, while the blue glowing eyes are formed from blue reflection nebulas.<\/p>\n

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The region is colloquially referred to as the Rampaging Baboon Nebula due to its resemblance to the colorful face of a Mandrill<\/a>. It can be seen in Earth’s sky close to the globular cluster NGC 6723, which is visible to the upper right of Meyer’s deep-space vista. The cluster sits some 30,000 light-years<\/a> away from the solar system and contains hundreds of thousands, if not millions of stars<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Meyer captured the scene over the course of 13 nights spread throughout June, July and August earlier this year using an Esprit 120mm telescope in conjunction with a QHY 268M astronomy camera and accessories from the Starfront Observatory in Texas.<\/p>\n

A grand total of 16.5 hours observation time was needed to collect the ancient light, after which the astrophotographer set about editing the image in Photoshop, Lightroom and Pixinsight.<\/p>\n

“I saw images with some oxygen, but OMG it [was] faint,” Meyer told Space.com<\/a> in an email. “I kept shooting, and finally said enough. My scope is f7, so even with 200 x 10 min [exposures] the oxygen was faint, so I did my best to bring it out a little for some contrast.”<\/p>\n

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Editor’s Note: If you would like to share your astrophotography with Space.com’s readers, then please send your photo(s), comments, and your name and location to spacephotos@space.com. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Raging Baboon Nebula, as captured by astrophotographer Greg Meyer in 2025. (Image credit: Greg Meyer) Astrophotographer Greg…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":201781,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[64,63,128,285],"class_list":{"0":"post-201780","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-science","11":"tag-space"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201780\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}