NGC 7008 (Gary Imm)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Cygnus (Cyg) · Contains: NGC 7008 · PK093+05.1 · PK093+05.2

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NGC 7008

This object is 2700 light years away in the constellation of Cygnus at a declination of +55 degrees. Its apparent size to us is almost 2 arc-minutes, which translates to an approximate diameter of 1.4 light years.

Despite its nickname of the Fetus Nebula, this object is in its final stage of life. Nebulae such as these are usually circular and symmetric, formed when a dying star expels gas at a high rate into the surrounding space. Some believe that the complicated shape of this nebula may be due to objects nearby to the star, such as planets, moons and rings, becoming trapped, destroyed and captured by the expanding gas.

The most interesting aspect of this object to me are the apparent “stars” superimposed on the nebula. The star nearest to the center is the progenitor 13th magnitude source star. But a close examination of my RGB master shows that the other “stars” are not all stars. In particular, the “stars” towards 11 o’clock, 2 o’clock and 5 o’clock are simply bright areas within the nebula. Spectral analyses by others have identified them as condensations which are expanding inside of the nebula.

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RA (center)	21h00m32s.821
RA (top/left)	21h01m09s.925
RA (top/right)	20h59m57s.295
RA (bottom/right)	20h59m56s.400
RA (bottom/left)	21h01m08s.550

Dec (center)	+54°32′33″.60
Dec (top/left)	+54°36′07″.12
Dec (top/right)	+54°36′22″.23
Dec (bottom/right)	+54°28′59″.99
Dec (bottom/left)	+54°28′42″.71

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