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NGC7635: The Bubble Nebula, KTAZ
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NGC7635: The Bubble Nebula

NGC7635: The Bubble Nebula, KTAZ
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NGC7635: The Bubble Nebula

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Blown by the wind from a massive star, this interstellar apparition has a surprisingly familiar shape. These fierce winds are sculpting the surrounding material - composed of gas and dust - into the curved shape that astronomers have dubbed the Bubble Nebula (NGC 7635). Although it looks delicate, the 7 light-year diameter bubble offers evidence of violent processes at work. Below and left of the Bubble's center is a hot, O-type star, several hundred thousand times more luminous and some 45 times more massive than our Sun. A fierce stellar wind and intense radiation from that star has blasted out the structure of glowing gas against denser material in a surrounding molecular cloud. The intriguing Bubble Nebula and associated cloud complex lie a mere 7,100 light-years away toward the boastful constellation Cassiopeia in our own Milky Way.

Captured over 4 nights, this is my fist attempt at Narrow Band Imaging using only Ha and Oiii data from an Antlia Alp-T 5nm filter on a OSC camera. The Sii signal was a composite built from luminance. So, I consider it a Modified Hubble Palette. The stars were extracted from a broadband image to retain star color.

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NGC7635: The Bubble Nebula, KTAZ