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![The Eagle Nebula, home of the “Pillars of Creation”](https://boldly-going.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/M16-proc-crop-768x660.png)
The Eagle Nebula, home of the “Pillars of Creation”
Perhaps the most famous Hubble image is the “Pillars of Creation,” towers of gas where new stars are being born within the Eagle Nebula (formally M16.) My backyard telescope under the thick Florida atmosphere can’t match the resolution of Hubble, but it can still capture this object. I’ve imaged this before, but this is the…
![Globular Cluster M5](https://boldly-going.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/M5OneSpike-1-768x628.png)
Globular Cluster M5
One of the largest and oldest (13 billion years) globular cluster of stars near our galaxy – there are hundreds of thousands of stars in there. There are some interesting theories that globular clusters such as this are what remains of smaller galaxies that our Milky Way has consumed – this is just what’s left…
![M92](https://boldly-going.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/M92-768x540.png)
Globular cluster M92
Globular clusters are mysterious objects – they are dense clusters of stars, some containing hundreds of thousands of them. And they’re not within the plane of the Milky Way galaxy; they are scattered around it. How they formed is a bit of a mystery. Did they form with our galaxy, or are they the cores…
![Bode's Galaxies (M81 and M82)](https://boldly-going.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/BodesProcBetterColor-768x409.png)
Bode’s Galaxies (M81 & M82)
Johan Bode discovered both Bode’s Galaxy (M81, on the left) and the Cigar Galaxy (M82, on the right.) Look closely and you’ll see many other, more distant galaxies in the background as well.
![Jellyfish Nebula (IC 443)](https://boldly-going.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/jellyfish2-768x430.png)
The Jellyfish Nebula
The “Jellyfish Nebula” is a supernova remnant in the constellation Gemini, about 5,000 light-years away. It’s the gas blown off from a star that exploded, sometime between 3,000 and 30,000 years ago – we’re really not sure when it happened. But it makes for quite a spectacle! I was plagued with technical issues while capturing…
![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…