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Not bad for an 800 million dollar telescope/cameras

The star-forming Trifid Nebula, also known as Messier 20, as imaged by NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory. The Trifid Nebula is an unusual combination of an open cluster of stars, an emission nebula (the pink region), a reflection nebula (the blue region), and a dark nebula (the dark regions).Credit: RubinObs/NOIRLab/SLAC/NSF/DOE/AURA

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Here's my Trifid Nebula - M20, at approximately 5,000 light years distance.

Credit; FAFO Observatory

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Beautiful! The Triffid was one of the first objects I observed with my first serious telescope, a 6” maksutov. The skies around here were a lot darker back then…

Looking forward to more jaw-dropping photos from the Vera Rubin Observatory!