SH2-68, The Flaming Skull Nebula, a planetary nebula in Serpens Cauda (Chris Plonski)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Serpens (Ser) · Contains: LBN 93 · PK030+06.1 · Sh2-68

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SH2-68, The Flaming Skull Nebula, a planetary nebula in Serpens Cauda

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SH2-68, The Flaming Skull Nebula, a planetary nebula in Serpens Cauda

SH2-68, known as The Flaming Skull Nebula is a planetary nebula in Serpens Cauda...the serpent's tail. As a medium sized star like our Sun nears the end of its life and has consumed the last of its fuel, it expels a large portion of its atmosphere producing a gaseous sphere of gas called a planetary nebula. These gases are ionized by the remnant star causing it to glow. The ionized hydrogen gases glow reddish, and the ionized oxygen gases glow blueish cyan. As SH2-68's central star, now a white dwarf (seen as the faint blue star in the center of the blueish area), moves through our Milky Way galaxy along with its glowing gas remains, it leaves a faint trail of gas behind it as seen to the upper right of this image.

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RA (center)	18h25m01s.736
RA (top/left)	18h25m43s.404
RA (top/right)	18h25m48s.608
RA (bottom/right)	18h24m20s.820
RA (bottom/left)	18h24m14s.887

Dec (center)	+00°52′19″.60
Dec (top/left)	+00°35′45″.81
Dec (top/right)	+01°07′59″.99
Dec (bottom/right)	+01°08′53″.10
Dec (bottom/left)	+00°36′39″.65

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