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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IC 405The Flaming Star Nebula |
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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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NGC 1499The California Nebula |
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NGC 1535 |
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NGC 1977The Running Man Nebula |
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NGC 2024The Flame Nebula |
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February
NGC 2237The Rosette Nebula |
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NGC 2261Hubble's Variable Nebula |
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NGC 2264The Christmas Tree Cluster |
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NGC 2359Thor's Helmet |
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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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NGC 2683 |
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NGC 2775 |
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NGC 2841 |
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NGC 2903 |
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May
Arp 244The Antennae |
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Draco Galaxy Group |
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M51The canonical spiral galaxy. |
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M63The Sunflower Galaxy. |
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M64The Black Eye Galaxy. |
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M83 |
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M88 |
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M94The Croc's Eye Galaxy. |
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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 4216 |
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NGC 4535 |
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NGC 4565 |
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NGC 4565 |
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NGC 4725 |
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NGC 5005 |
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July
Abell 2151 |
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M13The Great Hercules Cluster |
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August
M8The Lagoon Nebula |
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M16The Eagle Nebula |
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M20The Trifid Nebula |
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M24Sagittarius Star Cloud |
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M27The Dumbbell Nebula. |
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M57The Ring Nebula |
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September
IC 5146The Cocoon Nebula |
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M15M15 is a globular cluster in the constellation Pegasus. |
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NGC 6946 |
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NGC 6960The Western Veil |
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NGC 6992The Eastern Veil |
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NGC 7000The North American Nebula |
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NGC 7023The Iris Nebula |
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December
IC 342 |
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M45The beautiful Seven Sisters |
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M77A Seyfert galaxy in Cetus. |
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NGC 891An edge-on spiral galaxy |
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NGC 1300 |
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NGC 1365 |
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