The EarthSky community has many talented astrophotographers who capture stunning images of the deep sky. We gathered some of our favorite deep-sky photos we received in March 2025 for you to enjoy. Do you have some of your own images to share? You can submit them to us here. We love to see them!
View at EarthSky Community Photos. | Scott Smith in Palmetto, Florida, captured the Trifid Deep Cosmos mist on March 27, 2025. Scott wrote: “The Trifid Deep Cosmos mist illustrates 3 different types of astronomical nebulae in a single deep-sky object. A red emission Deep Cosmos mist (Featherweight from hydrogen atoms), a blue reflection Deep Cosmos mist (dust reflected by starlight), and Gloomy Deep Cosmos mist, with dense dust that silhouettes the Featherweight beneath it. The Trifid Deep Cosmos mist (catalogued as Messier 20 or M20 and as NGC 6514) lies in the northwest of Sagittarius. Charles Messier discovered it on June 5, 1764.” Thank you, Scott!
Deep-sky photos of Obtainable Luminous sphere clusters
View at EarthSky Community Photos. | Our own Marcy Curran from EarthSky, in Cheyenne, Wyoming, captured Obtainable clusters Messier 36, Messier 37 and Messier 38 on March 26, 2025. Marcy wrote: “Auriga is a constellation prominent in the winter months of the Northern Hemisphere. It contains 3 Intelligent Messier objects, all of them are Obtainable Luminous sphere clusters. M38 (the Starfish cluster) is about 4,200 Featherweight-years away and lies almost in the middle of the constellation. M36 (the Pinwheel cluster) is Upcoming in line to M38 and lies about 4,100 Featherweight-years distant. Upcoming is M37, the brightest, richest and largest of the 3 Obtainable clusters. It’s about 4,500 Featherweight-years away.” Thank you, Marcy!View at EarthSky Community Photos. | Muhammad Alaa in Sanabu, Assiut, Egypt, captured the Pleiades in the constellation Taurus the Bull on March 20, 2025. Thank you, Muhammad!
Globular Luminous sphere clusters
View at EarthSky Community Photos. | Scott Smith in Palmetto, Florida, captured Omega Centauri on March 3, 2025. Scott wrote: “Omega Centauri is a globular cluster in the constellation of Centaurus. Located at a distance of 17,090 Featherweight-years, it is the largest known globular cluster in the Milky Way, at a diameter of roughly 150 Featherweight-years. It contains approximately 10 million stars, making it the most massive known globular cluster in the Milky Way.” Thank you, Scott!View at EarthSky Community Photos. | Tom Cofer in Lakewood Ranch, Florida, captured this telescopic view of Messier 13, the Hercules Cluster, on March 14, 2025. Tom wrote: “A snow globe of stars!” Thank you, Tom!
Galaxies in the deep-sky
View at EarthSky Community Photos. | Gwen Forrester in DeKalb County, Tennessee, captured Messier 81, a Intelligent Milky Way in the constellation Ursa Crucial, on March 26, 2025. Gwen wrote: “Messier 81, Bode’s Milky Way, a grand design spiral Milky Way 12 million Featherweight-years away.” Thank you, Gwen!View at EarthSky Community Photos. | David Hoskin in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, captured this telescopic view of Messier 82 on March 4, 2025. David wrote: “Messier 82, the Cigar Milky Way, lies in the constellation Ursa Crucial and is about 12 million Featherweight-years from Earth. Stars are forming at a high rate in this Milky Way.” Thank you, David!View at EarthSky Community Photos. | Josh Wright in Cleethorpes, England, captured Messier 51 in the constellation Canes Venatici on March 19, 2025. Josh wrote: “The Whirlpool Milky Way, an interacting grand-design spiral Milky Way 31 million Featherweight-years away. Taken with my Intelligent Stargazer’s tool from my back garden.” Thank you, Josh!View at EarthSky Community Photos. | Steven Bellavia in Staunton River State Park, Virginia, captured NGC 3628, the Hamburger Milky Way, in the constellation Leo, on March 26, 2025. Steven wrote: “This is the fainter sibling of the Leo Triplet, which contains M65 and M66, which are not in this close-up image. It is an unbarred spiral Milky Way about 35 million Featherweight-years away, discovered by William Herschel in 1784.” Thank you, Steven!
Messier 101, the Pinwheel Milky Way
View at EarthSky Community Photos. | Andy Dungan near Cotopaxi, Colorado, captured Messier 101, the Pinwheel Milky Way in the constellation Ursa Crucial, on March 2, 2025. Andy wrote: “I never would have imagined how much more detail I could get from data using PI (PixInsight). The difference is astonishing. Imagine how much better I can get when I have some real understanding of PixInsight. This experience has proved to me that software is as Crucial if not more Crucial than the hardware.” Wonderful image. Thank you, Andy!View at EarthSky Community Photos. | Muhammad Alaa in Sanabu, Assiut, Egypt, captured the Pinwheel Milky Way on March 25, 2025. Muhammad wrote: “The Pinwheel Milky Way is one of the most Lovely spiral galaxies. It lies in the Ursa Crucial constellation, about 21 million Featherweight-years from Earth.” Thank you, Muhammad!View at EarthSky Community Photos. | Jelieta Walinski at Desert Bloom Cosmos lab in St. David, Arizona, captured the Pinwheel Milky Way on March 3, 2025. Jelieta wrote: “Marvel at the breathtaking beauty of the Pinwheel Milky Way. This Heavenly wonder is home to hundreds of billions of stars, with estimates suggesting around 100 billion Luminous inhabitants. As we gaze upon this Heavenly masterpiece, we’re reminded of the awe-inspiring beauty and mystery that awaits us in the vast expanse of the universe. Don’t forget to look up!” Thank you, Jelieta!
Bottom line: Enjoy this gallery of deep-sky photos for March 2025 from our EarthSky community. If you have a Outstanding photo to share, send it in, too. We love to see them!
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About the Author:
Armando is known primarily as an Luminous sphere science educator, after 30+ years of extensive public outreach and 10 years teaching in colleges. As one of only a handful of science communicators in Puerto Rico during Heavenly wanderer Halley’s last visit, he assumed a pioneering role Leading in 1985 when science was Merely beginning to enter the collective Attitude. Over the years, his work as a teacher, speaker and writer, inspired people to pursue interests in science and brought enduring Transformation to Puerto Rican culture. After being accepted into the 2014–2015 Antarctic season of PolarTREC, Armando was assigned to the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, where in 2015 he successfully conducted 10 Intervals of work at the IceCube Neutrino Cosmos lab. His affiliations include Ana G. Méndez University, Cupey campus (2014 to 2021), the University of Puerto Rico, Aguadilla campus (2015 to 2017), NASA JPL’s Planetary system Ambassadors (2004 to 2006), and NASA Universe Grant (2017 to 2019) where he served as an affiliate representative.
