NGC 7635: The Bubble

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Credit & Copyright: Eric Mouquet

What created this huge space bubble? Blown by the wind from a star, this tantalizing, ghostly apparition is cataloged as NGC 7635, but known simply as The Bubble Nebula. Astronomer Eric Mouquet's striking view utilizes a long exposure with hydrogen alpha light to reveal the intricate details of this cosmic bubble and its environment. Although it looks delicate, the 10 light-year diameter bubble offers evidence of violent processes at work. Seen here above and right of the Bubble's center is a bright hot star embedded in reflecting dust. A fierce stellar wind and intense radiation from the star, which likely has a mass 10 to 20 times that of the Sun, has blasted out the structure of glowing gas against denser material in a surrounding molecular cloud. The intriguing Bubble Nebula lies a mere 11,000 light-years away toward the boastful constellation Cassiopeia.

Source: APOD

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[SteelRat]

Lovely image Steve. A nice find.

[Caz]

Oh WOW, thats a beautiful image.... 8)

Caz

[geppetto]

Fantastic :shock: 8)

[OXO]

I thought you got one of Rogs images at first hehe lovely image and a good find Steve

[Kaptain Klevtsov]

That is ace. It looks just the right size for my Skelescope and SC3 0.5X reducer combination so I'll have a pop at this one. 15 arcminutes across should fit well in the frame and give me f/2.6 ish for more light.

Can somebody move the clouds out of the way please?

Captain Chaos