#1 The Sombrero Galaxy, M104, (Constell. Virgo) is 28 million light yrs. from Earth. Voted best picture taken by the Hubble telescope.
It has 800 billion suns/50,000 light years across.
#3 The Eskimo Nebula, NGC 2392 (Constell. Gemini), called "Eskimo" because it looks like a face surrounded by a furry hood. 5,000
light years from Earth.
#5 The HourGlass
Nebula, MyCn 18, is produced by the expansion of a fast stellar wind within a slowly expanding
cloud which is denser near its equator than its poles.
#7 The Swan
Nebula, M17 (Constell. Sagittarius)-a bubbly ocean of glowing hydrogen gas & small
amounts of oxygen, sulphur & other elements.
#9 Two colliding
& merging galaxies called NGC 2207 and IC 2163.
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#2 The Ant
Nebula, Mz3, a cloud of dust and gas, resembles an ant when observed through a telescope.
Lies within Milky Way Galaxy, approximately 4,500 light years from Earth.
#4 The Cat's Eye Nebula, NGC 6543 (Constell. Draco) It is a planetary nebula and is one of of the most complex nebula known, also one of the
most beautiful.
#6 The Cone
Nebula, NGC 2264. The Cone's shape comes from a dark absorption nebula consisting of cold
molecular hydrogen & dust in front of a faint emission nebula.
#8 "Starry Night", so named
because it reminded astronomers of the Van Gogh painting. It is a halo of light around a giant red-star in the Milky Way.
#10 The Trifid Nebula, M20 (constell. Sagittarius). A "stellar nursery" where new stars are being born.
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