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What I Found in Your Backyard

The same sky is over all of us — most of it just goes unseen. Each short episode brings back one deep-sky object from a backyard under dark skies, and tells the story hiding inside it: the physics, the distances, the quiet wonder. A See the Show series.

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The Wizard Nebula — Why Does It Glow?
Episode 1
The Wizard Nebula — Why Does It Glow?
NGC 7380 in Cepheus. Hot young stars flood the gas with ultraviolet light; atoms absorb it and glow back at one exact color. The physics of an emission nebula, over a backyard.
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5 Objects, 3 Rigs, and Everything That Broke
Episode 2
5 Objects, 3 Rigs, and Everything That Broke
One summer, one dark backyard in Camden, SC — five deep-sky objects, three different rigs, and every problem hit along the way. What backyard astrophotography actually looks like.
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A Trip Through Cygnus
Episode 3
A Trip Through Cygnus
From the whole constellation down to a bubble of gas about five light-years across that nobody noticed until 2008. The Sadr region, the Crescent Nebula, and the Soap Bubble hiding in the same frame.
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