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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