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NGC 6188

Solar System: via NASA           [submission]

Fantasy World by Jonatan Pie

Sonic Colors (2010)

Our Home… The Milky Way Galaxy… Can you see your house? He he.

Technically in this view we are in the lower right hand side of the Milky Way.  Funny because we are in what we would see as a somewhat abandoned area of the galaxy… very quiet area.

外窓  [pixiv]

NGC 2174 [At the Edge Of]

Colorful Airglow Bands Surround Milky Way : Why would the sky glow like a giant repeating rainbow? Airglow. Now air glows all of the time, but it is usually hard to see. A disturbance however – like an approaching storm – may cause noticeable rippling in the Earth’s atmosphere. These gravity waves are oscillations in air analogous to those created when a rock is thrown in calm water. Red airglow likely originates from OH molecules about 87-kilometers high, excited by ultraviolet light from the Sun, while orange and green airglow is likely caused by sodium and oxygen atoms slightly higher up. While driving near Keluke Lake in Qinghai Provence in China, the photographer originally noticed mainly the impressive central band of the Milky Way Galaxy. Stopping to photograph it, surprisingly, the resulting sensitive camera image showed airglow bands to be quite prominent and span the entire sky. The featured image has been digitally enhanced to make the colors more vibrant. via NASA

NGC 2264 - Sh2-273 - Fox Fur Nebula

NGC 2403 … member of the M81 group of galaxies

today’s sunset vs the galaxy🌙

NGC 2419

NGC 2403

NGC 1531 & NGC 1532 Merging

La Lune, c.1920

NGC 1976 - (M42) Orion Nebula - Sharpest From Hubble

| Dark Star

NGC 1316 & NGC 1317

Trifid Nebula | dylan_odonnell

NGC 1309

NGC 1300

Flight Through Orion Featuring Four Nabulae and Two Flash Illuminated Engines - Aug 5, 2007.

Image Credit: Joseph Brimacombe