Windblown N44F Nebula in LMC, Brandon Pimenta

Windblown N44F Nebula in LMC

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Description

N44F is a 35 light-year wide cavity blown into the surrounding interstellar gas by stellar winds from a blue giant star. It is part of N44, an even larger cosmic bubble up to a thousand light years in diameter in the Large Magellanic Cloud galaxy in the constellation Dorado, a so-called "superbubble" blown in by supernova explosions and stellar winds from NGC 1929.

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Red: hst_06698_54_wfpc2_f673n_wf

Green: pseudo

Blue: hst_06698_54_wfpc2_f656n_wf

Because there was a lot of noise in the red channel, I adjusted the curve of a feather selection of some of the red channel outside the main N44F cavity, if that makes sense.

Data from March 25, 2000 from Hubble Legacy Archive.

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Windblown N44F Nebula in LMC, Brandon Pimenta