Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Cygnus (Cyg)  ·  Contains:  B144  ·  Sh2-101
Tulip Nebula, SH2-101, Cygnus X-1, Chad Adrian
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Tulip Nebula, SH2-101, Cygnus X-1

Tulip Nebula, SH2-101, Cygnus X-1, Chad Adrian
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Tulip Nebula, SH2-101, Cygnus X-1

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Dual Idential Rigs Used: Edge 11, ASI6200mm, AP1100. One rig collected Ha and the other collected Oiii.

Image Info:

This image contains the Cygnus X-1 black hole. It's located 6,000 light years from earth and contains 14.8 solar masses within a region 55 miles in diameter. The black hole's binary companion star, HDE 226868, is on the far right just over halfway up (the bottom right of two bright stars pointing toward 5 o'clock).

The black hole is pulling matter from HDE 226868 which forms an accretion disk. Friction between the fast moving inner disk and the slow moving outer disk heats the matter and produces one of the most powerful x-ray sources in our sky. Matter that doesn't fall into the black hole is ejected into space via jets perpendicular to the accretion disk. The black hole is classified as a microquasar due to the accretion disk and jet structure.

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Tulip Nebula, SH2-101, Cygnus X-1, Chad Adrian