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The Heart of the Lagoon https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52162080292_10a780df0d.jpg Link to full resolution image. https://flic.kr/p/2ntoiaW Commonly known as the Lagoon Nebula, M8 was discovered in 1654 by the Italian astronomer Giovanni Battista Hodierna, who, like Charles Messier, sought to c...

The Sunflower Galaxy - Messier Object 63 https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52132046254_b12cd1113e.jpg Link to full resolution image. https://flic.kr/p/2nqJn6G M63, also known as the Sunflower galaxy, is a spiral galaxy in the northern constellation of Canes Venatici with approximately 400 billion...

MESSIER OBJECT 51 - THE WHIRLPOOL GALAXY https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52096733370_8f515d177f_w.jpg Link to full resolution image: https://flic.kr/p/2nnBnNS Follow the handle of the Big Dipper away from the dipper's bowl until you get to the handle's last bright star. Then, just slide your te...

SH2-240 - The Spaghetti Nebula https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51909626831_6fb917ae02.jpg https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51909626831_cccc42f2ba_k.jpg Simeis 147, also known as the Spaghetti Nebula, SNR G180.0-01.7 or Sharpless 2-240, is a supernova remnant (SNR) in the Milky Way, straddlin...

THE SWORD OF ORION IC 420, M42, M43, NGC 1973, NGC 1975, NGC 1976, NGC 1977, NGC 1980, NGC 1981, and NGC 1982 https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51897540224_5847b37c45_k.jpg The Great Nebula in Orion, an immense, nearby star birth region, is probably the most famous of all astronomical nebulas. He...

LDN1622 - THE BOOGIEMAN NEBULA https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51883583373_ccd9c3a645_k.jpg This is the Boogieman Nebula, otherwise known as Lynds' Dark Nebula (LDN) 1622, which appears against a faint background of glowing hydrogen gas only visible in long telescopic exposures of the region. I...

39-Panel Solar Mosaic 51872026961_4004043cba_k[1].jpg https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51872026961_4004043cba_k.jpg This is a high resolution, 39 panel, solar mosaic captured on February 1, 2022. A total of 78,000 individual frames were captured and 10% of the best were selected. After stacking, ...

The Pac-Man Nebula (NGC281) https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51825725437_eb3ff7b0fb_k.jpg The eye-catching shapes looming in this portrait of NGC 281 are sculpted dusty columns and dense Bok globules seen in silhouette, eroded by intense, energetic winds and radiation from the hot cluster stars. ...

NGC7635 - The Bubble Nebula https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51721289015_284da1cc4a_k.jpg Imaged above, in this colorful image of perhaps one of the most intriguing objects in our Milky Way galaxy: a massive star trapped inside a bubble. Object NGC 7635, better known as the Bubble Nebula, is loca...

M78 https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51684876856_854451bbf6_k.jpg This colorful image features a wide field view of M78, a reflection nebula located in the constellation Orion. A reflection nebula is created when light from a star is scattered or reflected off a nearby dust cloud. M78 is located...

IC410 - The Tadpole Nebula https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51680133718_9894a9ab84_k.jpg Seen above is IC410 in the SHO color palette. IC 410 is a faint and dusty emission nebula of more than 100 light-years across approximately 12,000 light-years away from Earth in the northern constellation of...