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Polar dust

Sara Harvey from Cork, Ireland

The region around Polaris is rich with gas and dust that lies within the Milky Way, captured here with a 3.4-inch refractor and 16½ hours of LRGB exposure. These “objects” are also called integrated flux nebulae as they are faintly illuminated by the combined light of the Milky Way’s stars.