"Hot young stars in your area are ionizing clouds of hydrogen with their intense ultraviolet emissions."

The stellar nursery NGC 2174, about 6400 light years away in Orion.

Image: ESA/Hubble & NASA

Cosmic pup. #mondog

The galaxy M83 in the constellation Hydra. About 15 million light years away. You can just make it out with a pair of binoculars.

Image: NASA, ESA and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA); Acknowledgment: W. Blair (STScI/Johns Hopkins University) and R. O’Connell (University of Virginia)

The star cluster NGC 3603, about 20,000 light years away in the constellation Carina.

Image: NASA, ESA, R. O'Connell (UVA), F. Paresce (Nat. Inst. for Astrophysics, Bologna), E. Young (USRA/Ames Research Center), WFC3 Science Oversight Committee, Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)

@mcnees and their pal, supercat :3
flying above