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Title: Triangulum Galaxy - M33 (LRGB +HA) Image Credit: James Hawks Explanation: The Triangulum Galaxy (M33) is ~2.73 million light years from Earth in the constellation Triangulum. This is the third largest galaxy in our local group after Andromeda and our Milky Way. M33 has a bright apparent magni...

IC 2162 is a HII Ionized region in the Orion constellation and is the brightest part of an emission nebula complex. The nebula complex consists of the Sharpless objects Sh 2-254, Sh 2-255 (IC 2162), Sh 2-256, Sh 2-257, and Sh 2-258. This image was captured, in a Queen Creek (Arizona) Bortle 7 backya...

Pacman Nebula The Pacman Nebula, also known as NGC 281, is ~9500 light years away in the constellation of Cassiopeia. NGC 281 is a bright emission nebula and part of an H II region. This image was captured, in a Queen Creek (Arizona) Bortle 7 backyard, using a Skywatcher Esprit 150ED telescope. The ...