The Wizard Nebula, NGC7380NGC 7380, the Wizard Nebula, sitting out in the constellation Cepheus roughly 7,000 light years from Earth. This is an emission nebula, vast clouds of ionised hydrogen and oxygen glowing in deep reds and blue teals against a dense star field. The structure here is remarkable. Dark dust lanes cut through the core, and pillar like formations rise within the gas clouds where new stars are forming. This was captured using narrowband filtering to isolate