Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Cygnus (Cyg)  ·  Contains:  Crescent nebula  ·  NGC 6888
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NGC 6888 Crescent Nebula, Andrew Gray
NGC 6888 Crescent Nebula
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NGC 6888 Crescent Nebula

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NGC 6888 Crescent Nebula, Andrew Gray
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NGC 6888 Crescent Nebula

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NGC 6888, the Crescent Nebula in Cygnus. Formed by the intense and trmendously fast stellar wind of the Wolf-Rayet star WR 136 colliding with a slower moving gas cloud of about 5 solar masses cast off by the star in an earlier red supergiant phase.

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NGC 6888 Crescent Nebula, Andrew Gray