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![Melotte 15 / Heart Nebula](https://www.boldly-going.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Melote15-768x580.png)
Melotte 15
This young star cluster inside the Heart Nebula is lighting up the clouds of gas from which it formed. 3 hours of narrowband exposure from my suburban driveway.
![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…
![Bode's Galaxies (M81 and M82)](https://www.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.
![Abell 33](https://www.boldly-going.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Abell33-768x629.png)
The Diamond Ring Nebula
Formally Abell 33 or the even more catchy name PK238+34.1, the “diamond ring nebula” is a planetary nebula – that means it’s the gas blown off by a dying star, not too different from our own sun. This one’s interesting due to its almost perfectly spherical shape, its cyan color from ionized Oxygen gas, and…
![Abell 39](https://www.boldly-going.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Abell39Proc-768x541.png)
Goodness gracious, great balls of… oxygen?
Well, it was certainly born of fire. This is planetary nebula Abell 39, one of the largest spheres in the galaxy… it’s 2.6 light-years across! It really is that color blue. You’re seeing ionized Oxygen gas blown off by the dying star in its center. Look closely for the distant galaxies in the background, including…
![M106](https://www.boldly-going.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/M106-2-proc-768x580.png)
The galaxy M106
The larger galaxy in this image goes only by the boring name “M106”, but it’s anything but boring. About 23 million light-years away, M106 is pretty similar to Andromeda in its size and brightness. But M106 is a lot weirder. In addition to its slightly warped shape, M106 is the home of a giant water-vapor…