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![Needle Galaxy](https://www.boldly-going.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/NeedleProc-768x565.png)
The Needle Galaxy
A spiral galaxy almost 40 million light-years away, viewed edge-on. The dust lane in the center of its disk, and central bulge are clearly visible. A couple of its smaller, satellite galaxies can also be seen here.
![Monkey Head Nebula](https://www.boldly-going.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/MonkeyHead-ModHubble-768x952.png)
The Monkey Head Nebula
The Monkey Head Nebula is located about 6400 light-years away, in the constellation Orion. It’s a gorgeous cloud of gas surrounding a cluster of young stars. I processed this data a couple of different ways; one using the “Hubble palette” and another using my own color scheme. The colors represent different kinds of ionized gases:…
![PacMan Nebula](https://www.boldly-going.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/PacMan-768x585.png)
Playing with Pac-Man
This is NGC281, or the “Pac-Man” nebula. I think it’s one of those objects that might look a little like its name if you’re viewing it through a big telescope in a dark sky, but takes on a totally different character in long-exposure, narrowband images such as this. This is a total of 13 hours…
![NGC2903 feels lonely.](https://www.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…
![The Whale and the Hockey Stick](https://www.boldly-going.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/WhaleHockey-768x905.png)
The Whale and the Hockey Stick
This pair of galaxies gets its name from their shapes. Both are viewed edge-on, and from this perspective we can see how a past interaction between the two warped them both. About 6 hours of exposure time from the backyard observatory.
![Cone Nebula](https://www.boldly-going.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/ConeNatural-768x960.png)
Cone Nebula
Narrowband image of the cone-shaped absorption nebula in front of the brighter emission nebula in this interesting region of the Christmas Tree Cluster, about 2,700 light-years away.