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The supergiant star Gamma Cygni, better known as Sadr, is located in the center of this beautiful Hydrogen II emission region, along with a complex of stars, dust clouds and glowing nebulae along the plane of our Milky Way galaxy. The field of view extends over 3 degrees (six full moons) in the sky and includes the emission nebula IC 1318 and the open star cluster NGC 6910 (toward the top left of the image). Formed like two glowing cosmic wings separated by a long dark dust alley, IC 1318's popular name is the Butterfly Nebula. Distance estimates from Earth for Sadr are around 1,800 light years, while the estimates for IC 1318 and NGC 6910 are between 2,000 and 5,000 light years. The image is a 6 hour exposure shot from our Alpine yard night before last.

Messier 100 is a spiral design, starburst galaxy, that is seen almost face-on. It is one of the largest and brightest galaxies of the Virgo cluster. As M100 is moving through the Virgo cluster, it is slowly losing some of its gas.
55 million light years away
107,000 light years across

The Crescent Nebula (NGC 6888) is a 25 light-year-wide emission nebula in the constellation Cygnus. This “cosmic bubble” in space owes its striking appearance to a central Wolf-Rayet star (WR 136) that pushes the hydrogen and oxygen atoms outward.

The Omega Nebula, also known as M17, is a massive star-forming region in the Sagittarius constellation, 5,500 light-years from Earth. It's a bright, colorful nebula with a 17 light-year diameter and is estimated to contain over 800 times the Sun's material. The Omega Nebula has several nicknames, including the Swan Nebula, the Lobster Nebula, and the Horseshoe Nebula. Astronomer John Herschel named it the Omega Nebula because it resembled the Greek letter
4 Light years across

The North America Nebula, also known as NGC 7000, is a vast emission nebula in the Cygnus constellation that resembles the shape of North America. It's 1,700 light-years away and spans 100 light-years across. Discovered in 1786 by William Herschel, the nebula is part of a larger complex called Sharpless 2–117, which also includes the Pelican Nebula. The North America Nebula is faint and difficult to see with the naked eye due to its low surface brightness.

Open star clusters are groups of young stars bound by a very loose gravity. There are much more open clusters than globular clusters in the Milky Way (1110+ vs 160+), and they often lie in the gases of nebulae. The first open star cluster was discovered thousands of years ago, as then open cluster M45, The Pleiades, is huge and difficult to miss when looking up at the night sky. Open clusters live until slowly dispersing away, as they are not extremely bound by gravity like globulars
5350 Light years away
6 light years across

The Veil nebula, also often called the Witch’s Broom nebula or Bridal Veil nebula, is a beautiful diffuse nebula that is actually a cloud of heated and ionized gas divided into three parts. The Western Veil (NGC 6960) is the most popular one, followed by the Eastern Veil (NGC 6992), and finally Pickering’s Triangle (NGC 6979).
1,470 light years away
100 light years across

Messier 106 (M106), also known as NGC 4258, is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Canes Venatici, roughly 24 million light-years from Earth. It's one of the brightest and largest galaxies near the Milky Way, spanning 135,000 light-years across. M106 is notable for several reasons: Extra arms** Unlike most spiral galaxies, M106 has two pairs of spiral arms, with one pair made of hot gas instead of stars.

The nebula consists of a cloud of ionized gas lit from within by young, hot stars; a dark cloud containing interstellar dust lies immediately in front
1,500 Light years away

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Messier 13 (M13), also known as the Great Globular Cluster in Hercules, is a dense, spherical cluster of hundreds of thousands of stars in the Hercules constellation. It's one of the brightest globular clusters visible from the Northern Hemisphere and is best seen in July. Appearance and visibility: M13 appears as a fuzzy ball of light through binoculars. With a telescope, its dense core reveals countless stars packed together.
26,000 light years away
250 light years across

One of the most popular star clusters.

IC 1848 is an emission nebula spanning about 100 light-years in the constellation Cassiopeia. Also known as the Soul Nebula, it is home to several open clusters of stars and huge evacuated bubbles formed by the winds of young massive stars. Its red tint is due to the emission of hydrogen gas.
7,500 Light years from Earth 🌎
200 Light years across

NGC 4565 (also known as the Needle Galaxy or Caldwell 38) is an edge-on spiral galaxy about 30 to 50 million light-years away in the constellation Coma Berenices
13.4 billion years old

The Tadpole Nebula, also known as IC 410, is a dusty emission nebula in the constellation Auriga, roughly 12,000 light-years from Earth. It's named for its elongated dust clouds that resemble tadpoles swimming towards the center.

The nebula is over 100 light-years across and contains two tadpole-shaped pillars of gas, called Sim 129 and Sim 130. The heads of the tadpoles are the remaining globules of the once-majestic pillars, eroded by stellar winds into their current shape.

A lunar eclipse occurs during a full moon when the Earth blocks the Sun's light from reaching the Moon.

The Flaming Star Nebula (IC 405, Caldwell 31 & Sh2-229) is a rippling cloud of gas and dust lying about 1,500 light years away in Auriga, the Charioteer. It is one of the finest imaging targets in the northern sky as a large, attractive and famous nebula that’s both an emission (H-II region) and reflection nebula rolled into one. It can be found and observed through a medium- to large-aperture telescope and has the dual advantage that it’s observable all night and rides high close to the zenith at culmination.

The Orion Nebula, also known as Messier 42 (M42) or NGC 1976, is a vast cloud of gas and dust in the Orion constellation where thousands of stars are born. It's located about 1,350 light-years from Earth, making it the closest large star-forming region to our planet. The nebula is visible to the naked eye as a fuzzy area below Orion's Belt, appearing as the middle "star" in the constellation's "sword".
1,344 Light years away

NGC 1491, also known as LBN 704, SH2-206 or the Fossil Footprint Nebula, is an emission type bright nebula located about 9,800 light years away from Earth