NGC 6188 in HST palette, rat156

NGC 6188 in HST palette

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Fantastic shapes lurk in clouds of glowing gas in NGC 6188, about 4,000 light-years away. The emission nebula is found near the edge of a large molecular cloud unseen at visible wavelengths, in the southern constellation Ara. Massive, young stars of the embedded Ara OB1 association were formed in that region only a few million years ago, sculpting the dark shapes and powering the nebular glow with stellar winds and intense ultraviolet radiation. The recent star formation itself was likely triggered by winds and supernova explosions, from previous generations of massive stars, that swept up and compressed the molecular gas. Text from APOD

This image is taken in narrowband SII, Ha and OIII mapped to red, green and blue respectively.

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NGC 6188 in HST palette, rat156