This Image shows the central region of the Trifid Nebula (M20) taken by the Gemini North 8-meter Telescope on Mauna Kea on the Big Island of Hawaii. Two US astronomers have discovered huge quantities of carbon gas mixed with a cloud of dust surrounding a young, yellow star that could resemble our own solar system at its inception, NASA said.(AFP/Gemini Observatory/File)
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How come it doesn't look like that in the backyard 'scope?!
You need a bigger scope.
I need a darker backyard too. I looked at the Trifid last weekend and I had to use a nebular filter just to see a faint glow. That part of the sky is pretty light polluted for me.
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