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🦢 🦅 And one from last month, which I think hadn’t posted yet. The Milky Way core is back from around midnight, so all the shiny things near it are too. This pair are the Swan / Omega nebula in Sagittarius (M17, top) and the Eagle Nebula in Serpens (M16, bottom). The latter is more well known because of the Hubble “Pillars of Creation” photo. You can *just* make out those pillars at the center of the nebula. So yes, you can image them yourself from home with a $600 phone-controlled “toy telescope”. Being red nebulae, they are of course star forming regions :-) #astrophotography #space #astrodon #seestar