Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Monoceros (Mon)  ·  Contains:  NGC 2237  ·  NGC 2238  ·  NGC 2239  ·  NGC 2246  ·  NGC 2252  ·  Rosette A  ·  Rosette B  ·  Rosette Nebula  ·  The star 12 Mon
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Rosette Nebula, David Schlaudt
Rosette Nebula
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Rosette Nebula

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Rosette Nebula, David Schlaudt
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Rosette Nebula

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This nebula is such a cool object with so much going on inside it. Rosette (NCG 2237) is an emission nebula and an active star forming region of the Milky Way roughly 5000 light years from Earth. At the center of the nebula is the star cluster NGC 2244 which astronomers believe formed roughly 5 million years ago, a blink of the eye in galactic time scales. This open star cluster contains a number of very large O-type stars which were originally formed out of the nebula's gas and whose stellar winds have since cleared out the central part of the nebula. When I say these stars are very large I mean like 50-60 times the mass of the sun and 400,000-450,000 times more luminous! Rosette is still forming new stars in the denser parts of the nebula including the distinctive dark clouds in the bottom right portion of my image.

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Rosette Nebula, David Schlaudt

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