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![The Elephant’s Trunk](https://boldly-going.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/ElephantTrunk-Small-768x486.png)
The Elephant’s Trunk
Located about 2,400 light-years away in the constellation Cepheus, the “Elephant’s Trunk Nebula” has a distinct “Pillars of Creation” vibe when viewed as a long-exposure, narrowband image in the style of Hubble. Like the “Pillars of Creation” (the Eagle Nebula,) the Elephant’s Trunk is also an area of star formation, containing some young, newly-formed stars….
![Medusa Nebula](https://boldly-going.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Medusa_Proc-768x755.png)
The Medusa Nebula
This is planetary nebula PK205+14.1, but its common name “The Medusa Nebula” rolls off the tongue a little better. About 1500 light-years away within the constellation Gemini, you’re seeing the gas blown off by a small star that ran out of fuel, and blew up into a red giant – later to end its life…
![The galaxy NGC2841, 46 million light-years away.](https://boldly-going.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/NGC2841-proc2-768x954.png)
The galaxy NGC2841, 46 million light-years away.
This is a somewhat obscure target; at 46 million light-years distant, it’s hard to capture much detail on it from Earth. But that’s what makes it interesting and challenging! Located within the constellation Ursa Major, this is a flocculent spiral galaxy notable for its massive central core. Look around in the background, and you’ll find…
![Light pollution: dealing with it.](https://boldly-going.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/iStock-497951217-768x328.jpg)
Light pollution: dealing with it.
(Image credit: ddmitr, iStockPhoto.com) Every picture on this site was taken from a suburban driveway in a “red zone” on the light pollution map, literally underneath a streetlight. Every year more subdivisions and apartment buildings spring up in my city, and light pollution from the metro Orlando area just keeps getting worse. There are four…
![Globular Cluster M13](https://boldly-going.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/M13Crop-1-768x466.png)
Globular Cluster M13
M13, the great globular cluster in Hercules. You can see some of its interesting neighbors, including the galaxy NGC 6207 in the lower-left. While M13 itself is 25,000 light-years away just above our galactic plane, NGC 6207 is 37 million light-years distant. About halfway between the two, the galaxy IC 4617 is also visible –…
![NGC2903 feels lonely.](https://boldly-going.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/NGC2903-768x553.png)
NGC2903 feels lonely.
It’s a good thing galaxies don’t have feelings; they’re just collections of billions of stars. Because NGC 2903 would need therapy. It has no cute nickname like other galaxies; it’s just NGC 2903. And it has no galactic neighbors; most galaxies are gravitationally bound to other galaxies in their local group or cluster, but NGC…