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Next-door nebula

Nicholas Clarke from Cohuna, Victoria, Australia

NGC 1769 is an emission nebula that lies not in our home Milky Way Galaxy but in one of the next galaxies over — the Large Magellanic Cloud, some 160,000 light-years away. This nebula is also part of the larger NGC 1763 star-forming complex. This imager used a 17-inch scope to capture 44 hours of SHORGB data.