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M17 doesn’t look like a swan to me.
M17 is commonly known as the Swan Nebula or the Omega Nebula. From this angle, I think it looks more like a crab – but “Crab Nebula” was taken! Shot over a hazy summer night, with narrowband filters for the gases of the nebula itself, and RGB natural-color filters for the stars. Presented processed with…
![Hickson 44 Galaxy Group](https://www.boldly-going.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Hickson44-768x699.png)
The Hickson 44 Galaxy Group
This is a weird little cluster of galaxies – there are four in all, and each one is completely different. There’s a weird, S-shaped one that must have been messed up by its neighbors in the past, a somewhat normal-looking spiral galaxy, and elliptical, and another one that’s viewed edge-on. Galaxies that have interacted with…
!["Witch's Broom" / Western Veil Nebula](https://www.boldly-going.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/WitchBroomRGBStretch-768x507.jpg)
The “Witch’s Broom”
As Halloween draws closer, this seems like an appropriate object to image: the “Witch’s Broom” nebula! Although to be honest, that bright star (Cygnus 56) looks more like an eye on some sort of fantastical, cosmic creature to me. In reality, it’s part of the larger Veil Nebula, which is a huge supernova remnant 1,400…
![Another year, another Bode’s Galaxy image](https://www.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…
![The Nebula with No Name](https://www.boldly-going.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/NGC1491-Natural-768x636.png)
The Nebula with No Name
This dim nebula in the constellation Perseus has no name, apart from its catalog numbers NGC 1491 and LBN 704. I think it deserves one. It reminds me of the Bubble nebula – if you look closely, you’ll see a “bubble” at center being created from the stellar wind of the hot star that is…
![Pinwheel Galaxy](https://www.boldly-going.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/PinwheelTake3-768x904.png)
The Pinwheel Galaxy
Hope to revisit this under better conditions in the future; but this came out OK considering a bright moon was out the night it was taken. The Pinwheel Galaxy (M101) is near the end of the handle of the Big Dipper in the sky, although physically it is tens of millions of light-years more distant.