Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Cygnus (Cyg)  ·  Contains:  NGC 7013
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NGC 7013 & Molecular Clouds in Cygnus, Mario Lauriano
NGC 7013 & Molecular Clouds in Cygnus
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NGC 7013 & Molecular Clouds in Cygnus

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NGC 7013 & Molecular Clouds in Cygnus, Mario Lauriano
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NGC 7013 & Molecular Clouds in Cygnus

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The NGC 7013 is a spiral galaxy (Sa type referring to Hubble's diagram), abour 40 millions light years away in the Cygnus constellation. Moving towards the north (in galactic coordinates) there are two molecular clouds belonging to PGCC Catalog. This regions are forming thanks to the cooling of the H I clouds, in particular when the particles density reaches the limit of 1000 particles per cm^3, the cloud becomes opaque to the galactic ultraviolet radiation and these conditions allow the hydrogen atoms to combine into H2 molecules, through mechanisms that they see the powders involved as catalysts.

The image is the result of observations from the "GAL Hassin - International center for astronomical sciences", in Isnello (PA-Sicily), a bortle 4 sky. The scientific instrumentation belongs to Carmelo Falco, an astrophysics who works there. Carmelo has taken the data while I made the image elaboration.

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NGC 7013 & Molecular Clouds in Cygnus, Mario Lauriano