A labyrinth, a mandala of dust and stars, that’s what galaxies seem to be. This one, if our estimates are correct, hosts about 400 billion stars and an outrageous amount of dust. M 63, everybody!

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It is not a famous target, so it is not often photographed, and there is not much information about it. It's close to the Rosette Nebula so you can find it in the Monoceros constellation. I find it to be very cool. Don't ya?

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I spent some time recently shooting one of my city's most famous inhabitants, an albino eastern gray squirrel that lives on the Courtsquare.

I've known there's been one there for four years, but to my surprise, I saw two while shooting. My guess is this one, a female, has produced an albino offspring. She appears larger and has a dirtier coat; I'm guessing she's older.

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