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![Jellyfish Nebula (IC 443)](https://www.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…
![The galaxy M91](https://www.boldly-going.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/M91-crop-768x432.png)
The galaxy M91
Located 63 million light-years away in the constellation Coma Berenices, M91 is part of the Virgo cluster of galaxies – and if you zoom in and explore this image, you’ll find many other galaxies surrounding it, and also far in the distance beyond it.
![M33](https://www.boldly-going.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/M33-2-768x529.png)
Revisiting E.T.’s Galaxy (M33)
I’ve imaged M33, the “Triangulum Galaxy” before – but not yet from our new home with darker skies and better equipment. I’m really pleased with how this came out – although M33 is very close to us (2-3 million light-years – that’s close by galactic standards!) it is notoriously difficult to image. Although it’s close,…
![Staring Into the Void with M77](https://www.boldly-going.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/M77-768x552.png)
Staring Into the Void with M77
This was intended to just be an image of the galaxy M77 in Cetus, but quite a few other galactic photobombers showed up! The annotated image below guides you to the brighter galaxies in this image, but click on it to expand it, and you’ll find many other ones as well that are incomprehensibly distant.
![Cave Nebula](https://www.boldly-going.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Cave-768x718.png)
The Cave Nebula
Formally SH2-155, the Cave Nebula lies about 2,400 light-years away within the constellation Cepheus. It’s part of a much larger region of gas and dust (called a molecular cloud). This region is mostly ionized Hydrogen, but there’s just enough Oxygen – blue in this image – to make for a pretty picture. Capturing that Oxygen…
![The Eagle Nebula](https://www.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.