Here is a picture of the sun without any glare.
Still a very powerful star!
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Sharpless 129 is an H-alpha emission nebula commonly called the Flying Bat Nebula located in Cepheus very close to the famous IC 1396 (the nebula that contains the Elephant's Trunk). The large blue/green nebula inside it, which is over a degree long, is formally known as Ou4 but is colloquially called the Squid (or Giant Squid) Nebula.
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This shot from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows a maelstrom of glowing gas and dark dust within one of the Milky Way’s satellite galaxies, named the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC).
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Here is a very distant globular cluster called NGC 6229 found in the constellation Hercules, it is about 100,000 light years distant. It has a visual magnitude of 9.39. What a difference distant makes when you compare this globular cluster with the spectacular Hercules cluster (25,000 light years away) which is found in the same constellation.
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