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W63, Mike_van_den_Berg
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W63

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W63

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The ghost of a long dead star, the W63 supernova remnant shines like a faint cosmic blue smoke-ring along the plane of the Milky Way galaxy toward the northern constellation Cygnus.
A narrowband image in Hubble palette
SHO = 405:315:450 minutes.
Exposure time per sub for all the three channels 15 minutes.

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W63, Mike_van_den_Berg