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![Another year, another Bode’s Galaxy image](https://boldly-going.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/M81-More-ABE-768x552.png)
Another year, another Bode’s Galaxy image
Every year I try to take a better image of M81, Bode’s Galaxy. It’s located about 12 million light-years away, which is unfathomably far but close by galactic standards. Look closely, and you’ll see a faint splotchiness in the background. This is the Integrated Flux Nebula (IFN,) composed of gases that lie just outside of…
![Another glob: M80](https://boldly-going.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/M80-1-768x624.png)
Another glob: M80
It’s globular cluster season, so here’s another one! M80 is found within the constellation Scorpius, and lies a distant 32,600 light-years away – making it one the small side from our vantage point. It contains several hundred thousand stars, and is one of the denser globular clusters in our galaxy. The faint galaxy in the…
![Deer Lick Galaxy Group and Stephan's Quintet](https://boldly-going.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/DeerLick-e1570365073893-768x457.png)
A bunch of galaxies in Pegasus.
There are two different clusters of galaxies in this image – the large galaxy you see is NGC 7331, part of the “Deer Lick Galaxy Group.” The smaller galaxies you see surrounding it (sometimes called “The Fleas”) are actually about ten times further away than NGC 7331. In the corner, you’ll see “Stephan’s Quintet,” a…
![The Eagle Nebula](https://boldly-going.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/EagleNaturalProcAutoColor-768x1020.png)
The Eagle Nebula
A wider shot of the Eagle Nebula, with the famous “pillars of creation” in its center.
![2019 Lunar Eclipse](https://boldly-going.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/LunarEclipse011219-NorthUp-768x384.png)
Lunar Eclipse Jan 2019
A progression of photos taken at 15-minute intervals from 10:30 PM to 12:15 AM on the evening of Jan 20-21, 2019. Click to zoom in – there’s a lot of detail!
![Cygnus Wall](https://boldly-going.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/CygWall-768x610.png)
The “Cygnus Wall” of Star Formation
This portion of the North America Nebula in the constellation – you guessed it – Cygnus, is a giant cloud of ionized gases where new stars are being created. It’s also pretty. These are both false color images, processed a couple of different ways. The first is the classic “Hubble Palette” that maps ionized emissions…