January
Horsehead NebulaThe darker, horsehead-shaped dust cloud (known as Barnard 33) is in front of a larger, luminous nebula (called IC 434). |
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M1The Crab Nebula |
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M42The Orion Nebula is one of the most beautiful diffuse nebulae in the sky. |
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M78 |
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February
NGC 2392The Eskimo Nebula |
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March
M81Bode's galaxy |
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M81 and M82M81 and M82 are more than 12 million light-years away, and are separated from each other by about 100,000 light-years. |
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M82Active galaxy M82. |
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April
M65 and M66 |
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M97 |
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May
M51The canonical spiral galaxy. |
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M63The Sunflower Galaxy. |
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M64The Black Eye Galaxy. |
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M88 |
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M94The Croc's Eye Galaxy. |
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M104The Sombrero Galaxy |
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M106A Seyfert galaxy in Canes Venatici |
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NGC 4565 |
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June
M101 |
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July
M13The Great Hercules Cluster |
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September
M15M15 is a globular cluster in the constellation Pegasus. |
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NGC 6946 |
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NGC 7023The Iris Nebula |
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