Off to See the Wizard (again)
These past couple of nights, I revisited the Wizard Nebula – home of a star cluster about 7,000 light-years away within the constellation Cepheus.
This is a false-color image in the “Hubble Palette” where red, green, and blue represent ionized Sulphur, Hydrogen, and Oxygen emissions respectively.
Can you see the “wizard”? Hint: he’s lying on his back in this image.

For fun, here’s a version with the stars removed using AI software:
