This is another image of the Cat's Eye Nebula.

This is an image of Antares & Rho Ophiuchi.
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This is an image of the Horsehead Nebula which is 1500 light years.
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This is an image of the Pleiades, an open cluster/reflection nebulae 400 light years away. It is easily seen with the naked eye and is known as the Seven Sisters.
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This is an image of the Crab Nebula, a supernova remnant 6,000 light years away.
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This is an image of the Orion Nebula which is an emission nebula 1,500 light years away. It is known as "The Great Nebula of Orion."
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This is the Eskimo Nebula also known as Clownface Nebula which has an unusually bright central star.
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This is the Keyhole Nebula which is 9,000 light years away.
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This is another image of Eta Carina. It is the largest diffuse nebula
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This is the Lagoon Nebula, 4,500 light years away. It is much larger and brighter than its neighbor the Trifid Nebula and even visible with the naked eye on a dark night.
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This is the Eagle Nebula, which is an emission nebula 7,000 light years away. There are many new stars formed here, but the nebula itself is much dimmer and harder to see than the nearby Omega Nebula.
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This is the Ring Nebula which is a planetary nebula 5,000 light years away. Its central star is very dim. Planetary nebulae are much smaller than diffuse nebulae and therefore more difficult to observe.
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This is the Saturn Nebula, a planetary nebula 3,900 light years away. It gets its name because it resembles the planet Saturn.
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This is NGC 7023.
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This is the Vela Supernova Remnant. This nebula is the remnant of a supernova that exploded about 10,000 years ago.
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This is an oxygen rich supernova remnant in the large Magellanic cloud
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This is an infrared image of the central section of the serpens star forming region

V-filter flux for stars
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Large Magellanic Cloud
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Huge Disk Galaxy
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This is the Andromeda Galaxy, our nearest large neighbor galaxy.
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More of Andromeda Galaxy
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This is the The Triangulum galaxy M33. Under good conditions it can be seen with the naked eye.
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This is the same thing but an ultraviolet image.
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This is the same thing but a visible image.
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This is the same galaxy of an ultraviolet and visible overlay.
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This is the Whirlpool Galaxy M51 and was one of Messier's original discoveries. He discovered it on October 13, 1773, when observing a comet.
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Another image of the Whirlpool Galaxy.
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This is an image of the Spiral Galaxy M74.
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Another image of M74 with ultraviolet and visible overlay.
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This is an image of the spiral galaxy M81 in Ursa Major with ultraviolet and visible overlay.
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This is an example of the development of galaxy mergers.
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This radio galaxy Centaurus A (NGC 5128) provides an example of how dust can affect our view of a galaxy, and how going to redder wavelengths helps penetrate interstellar dust.
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These are images of NGC 1068.
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