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![Helix Nebula](https://boldly-going.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/HelixFinal-768x584.png)
The Eye of Sauron
The Helix Nebula is also known as the Eye of Sauron or the Eye of God.
![The Bubble Nebula](https://boldly-going.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Bubble2-768x570.png)
The Bubble Nebula
11 light years away, the “bubble” itself is formed from the solar wind of the large, hot star inside of it. Imaged with narrowband filters.
![Brand-new stars in NGC1333](https://boldly-going.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/NGC1333-768x752.png)
Brand-new stars in NGC1333
This image really blows my mind – this is the reflection nebula NGC1333 in Perseus. The blue part is reflected gas and dust from the star that’s lighting up – that’s nothing too unusual. But check out the little red blobs above it. Many of those are “Herbig-Haro” objects, formed by jets spewing out from…
![M61 with supernova](https://boldly-going.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/M61-CropMore-Annot-768x483.png)
A Supernova 50 million light-years away!
Highlighted here is a recently discovered supernova in the galaxy M61, over 50 million light-years away! This exploding star outshines the entire core of its own galaxy, and many of the much closer stars seen within our Milky Way. The sheer power of this stellar explosion is unfathomable. It’s 50 million light-years away, which means…
![California Nebula](https://boldly-going.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/California2-768x501.png)
The California Nebula
The “California Nebula” (NGC1499) does actually kinda look like California, if you look at the whole thing. But the whole thing is too big in the sky to fit within the field of view of my telescope. So, here’s an interesting portion of it near one of its ends at least. From this angle, it…
![PacMan Nebula](https://boldly-going.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/PacMan-768x585.png)
Playing with Pac-Man
This is NGC281, or the “Pac-Man” nebula. I think it’s one of those objects that might look a little like its name if you’re viewing it through a big telescope in a dark sky, but takes on a totally different character in long-exposure, narrowband images such as this. This is a total of 13 hours…