Millions of light years away, NGC 4725 shines alongside several distant neighboring galaxies — each one an entire island universe filled with billions of stars. It’s hard to look at a scene like this and not feel both incredibly small… and incredibly lucky to witness it. @spann
Somewhere around 83 million light years away, the barred spiral galaxy Messier 109 quietly drifts through space surrounded by distant galaxies and countless stars. @spann
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NGC 3184 — a stunning face-on spiral galaxy, its blue arms lit with newborn stars, spinning like a cosmic pinwheel 40 million light-years from Earth. @spann
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M106 (Messier 106), a spiral galaxy ~23 million light-years away.
The smaller edge-on galaxy below is likely NGC 4248, one of M106’s companion galaxies.@spann
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NGC 2024 — The Flame Nebula 🔥✨
A blazing stellar nursery glowing in hydrogen light, where newborn stars ignite behind curtains of cosmic dust. Captured in the heart of Orion, about 1,350 light-years away. @spann
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NGC 281 — The PacMan Nebula
A stellar nursery 9,200 light-years away in Cassiopeia, glowing in deep hydrogen-alpha as new stars are born. @spann
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M106 (Messier 106), a spiral galaxy ~23 million light-years away.
The smaller edge-on galaxy below is likely NGC 4248, one of M106’s companion galaxies. @spann
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This is M81, known as Bode’s galaxy. It’s located approximately 12 million light years away. It’s hard to comprehend just how far away that is 🤯@spann https://t.co/Qtk0LirR1M
This is NGC2175 known as the Monkey Head Nebula. It’s located 6,350 light years from Earth. Photo taken from PCB, Florida https://t.co/Qtk0LirR1M @spann
This is IC443 known as the Jellyfish Nebula. It’s located approximately 5000 light years away from Earth and photographed from PCB, Florida. https://t.co/Qtk0LirR1M @spann