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Trifid Nebula and Luna
Nice little views this morning with Trifid Nebula and the Moon from a few days ago.
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I had me a little play with the mosaic function for my Astronomy Group's target of the month earlier, the Lagoon Nebula, with a bonus Trifid Nebula thrown in there as well. Only about an hour's exposure, with these bright objects.
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Hubble vs. My Backyard's Scope!
First of all, happy B'day Hubble Space Telescope! Still the OG space-based telescope that changed our perspective of the Universe.
For the B'day, NASA/ESA released an image of a section of the Trifid Nebula (left). You can see a nodule from inside the nebula and a thin stellar jet formed by a young stellar object buried inside the cloud. That's about 0.75 light-years in length.
On the right is my 1-hour photo from my backyard - and the jet appears there too!
Unlike Hubble, my backyard rig only has a 20cm aperture and has a whole lot of atmosphere, as well as city lights, to deal with.
So it is really neat to be able to get that level of detail in 1 hour of observing.
See the original Hubble image here: https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Hubble_turns_36_with_a_dazzling_Trifid_Nebula_portrait
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📸 A Beautiful Trifid
Red emission. Blue reflection. Dark dust. The Trifid Nebula (M20) in Sagittarius blends all three. Star formation shapes its glowing clouds, while dark lanes split the red core into three parts. A cosmic gem, 5,000 light-years away.📅 APOD – July 9, 2025
📷 Credit: Alessandro Cipolat Bares#APOD #TrifidNebula #M20 #NASA #Nebula #Sagittarius #EmissionNebula #ReflectionNebula #DarkNebula #StarFormation #Astrophotography #Space #Cosmos #Astronomy #DeepSky #StellarSnap
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📸 Rubin’s First Look: A Sagittarius Skyscape
This wide-field view from the new Vera C. Rubin Observatory spans over 4 degrees in Sagittarius. It captures the Lagoon Nebula (M8) and Trifid Nebula (M20), two iconic regions of star formation in the Milky Way.
📅 June 25, 2025
📷 NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory @VRubinObs
🔗 https://stellarsnap.space
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The Light, Dark, and Dusty Trifid
Messier 20, popularly known as the Trifid Nebula, lies about 5,000 light-years away toward the nebula rich constellation Sagittarius. A star forming region in the plane of our galaxy, the Trifid does illustrate three different types of astronomical nebulae; red emission nebulae dominated by light from hydrogen atoms ...
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Image Credit & Copyright: Robert Edelmaier and Gabriele Gegenbauer
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There is a lot going on the Trifid Nebula! The red part is glowing emission from ionised gas within. The blue part glows because it is energised by nearby stars. Dark nebulae appear to trace across its surface, and a cluster of stars lies nearby.
See https://www.astrobin.com/1f1pk6/ for more details.
LRGB image created using PixInsight (for calibration, registration, integration) and Adobe Lightroom (for cosmetic adjustments)
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In the Center of the #TrifidNebula
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APOD: 2020 November 1 - In the Center of the Trifid Nebula
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap201101.html
What's happening at the center of the Trifid Nebula? Three prominent dust lanes that give the Trifid its name all come together. Mountains of opaque dust appear near the bottom, while other dark filaments of dust are visible threaded throughout the nebula. A single massive star visible near the center causes much of the Trifid's glow. […]