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Bubble Nebula

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Bubble Nebula

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You can see the cosmic bubble suspended in space with a star trapped inside (called BD 6062522). Though no one cares what this star is called, it burns approximately a million times brighter than our Sun. Based on the rate this star is expending energy, in 10 to 20 million years it will explode, and the bubble will pop. The bubble is surrounded by a molecular cloud or star-forming region that you can see in reddish glow of Hydrogen Alpha emission lines.

The Bubble Nebula is known by several names NGC7635, Caldwell11, Sharpless11 depending upon who saw it or which organization cataloged it. The Bubble Nebula is in constellation Cassiopeia and the bubble was created from the stellar wind of the trapped star formed over a 4 million year period.

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Bubble Nebula, Shailesh Trivedi