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The Baby’s Bottom
This is a small part of a larger nebula called the “Baby Nebula” (also known as the Soul Nebula) in the constellation Cassiopeia. If you see a baby in the larger nebula this is part of, this image would be of the baby’s bottom đŸ™‚ There is a ton of star formation going on in…
![The Hidden Galaxy](https://boldly-going.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/IC342-2-768x768.png)
The Hidden Galaxy
This is IC342, located about 10 million light-years away. If it were anywhere else in the sky, it would be visible to the naked eye – but it lies behind the disk of our Milky Way galaxy, obscuring the view. This image is the result of 22 hours of total exposure time to try and…
![Hoag's Object](https://boldly-going.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/HoagsRGBCrop-768x565.png)
A “ring galaxy” 600 MILLION light-years away
Hoag’s Object is the weirdest galaxy I know of; it is a “ring galaxy” – a very rare galaxy type that’s just a galactic core of stars, surrounded by a ring of stars that’s seemingly disconnected from its core. This galaxy has always captured my imagination. Just look at this image from the Hubble Space…
![NGC210](https://boldly-going.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/NGC210-768x536.png)
NGC210 is getting photobombed.
At the center of this image is the distant galaxy NGC210, 65 million light-years away within the constellation Cetus. It’s mind-blowing that we can capture an image of something so distant from our backyards, given the right technology. It’s also mind-blowing that we’re looking at light that has been traveling for 65 million years, giving…
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![Cone Nebula](https://boldly-going.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/ConeNatural-768x960.png)
Cone Nebula
Narrowband image of the cone-shaped absorption nebula in front of the brighter emission nebula in this interesting region of the Christmas Tree Cluster, about 2,700 light-years away.