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11 million ly
A Milky Way–sized spiral dimmed and half-hidden behind our own galaxy's dust
The Hidden Galaxy
IC 342
6,000 ly
Blue reflection nebulae and red hydrogen in the heart of Cygnus
NGC 6914
NGC 6914
2,400 ly
The expanding shock wave of a 10,000-year-old supernova
The Veil Nebula
NGC 6992 / Cygnus Loop
161,000 ly
The most luminous nebula in the Local Group of galaxies
NGC 2070 — The Tarantula Nebula
NGC 2070 / 30 Doradus
21 million ly
A face-on spiral galaxy revealing its full pinwheel structure
M101 — The Pinwheel Galaxy
M101 / NGC 5457
1,500 ly
A runaway star lighting up the gas cloud it's racing through
The Flaming Star, Tadpole, and Spider Nebulae
IC 405 / IC 410 / IC 417
5,200 ly
A flower-shaped cloud of gas sculpted by fierce stellar winds
The Rosette Nebula
NGC 2237 / Caldwell 49
5,500 ly
A star-forming region glowing with the light of newborn suns
The Omega Nebula
M17 / NGC 6618
1,344 ly
A stellar nursery where new stars are being born right now
The Great Orion Nebula
M42 / NGC 1976
444 ly
Young blue stars wrapped in wisps of interstellar dust
The Pleiades
M45 / Melotte 22
23 million ly
A galactic collision in slow motion, frozen in 23-million-year-old light
M51 — The Whirlpool Galaxy
M51 / NGC 5194
2.5 million ly
The nearest large galaxy — on a collision course with ours
The Andromeda Galaxy
M31 / NGC 224