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Bubbles in the Large Magellanic Cloud - 2-Panel Mosaic, Alex Woronow
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Bubbles in the Large Magellanic Cloud - 2-Panel Mosaic

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Bubbles in the Large Magellanic Cloud - 2-Panel Mosaic, Alex Woronow
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Bubbles in the Large Magellanic Cloud - 2-Panel Mosaic

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Bubbles in the Large Magellanic Cloud 2-Panel Mosaic

OTA: TAO 150 (f/7.3)

Camera: FLI - ML16200 (1.13 arcseconds/pixel)

Observatory: Deep Sky West, Chile

EXPOSURES:

Red: 19 x 600 + 22 x 600 sec.

Blue: 23 x 600 + 21 x 600

Green: 25 x 600 + 20 x 600

H 12 x 1800+ 14 x 1800

Total exposure ~34.7 hours

Image Width x Height: ~(2 x 1.3) degs

Processed by Alex Woronow (2019) using PixInsight, Skylum, StarTools, SWT

Within this image lie multiple HII clouds, all of which reside within the Large Magellanic Cloud. Among the various HII clouds is are a number of ‘supershells’ or ‘superbubbles’, which are cavity within a bubble carved out by supernovae and stellar winds. The somewhat bluer clouds (e.g., NGC 2020, and the area around NGC 2040) are reflection nebulae from embedded clusters young, hot stars. The young stars that generated the bubbles are visible in these bubbles. Over the entire image, the tars are so abundant that the entire image has a sandy, grainy appearance. The image includes stars below magnitude 21.54, according to in the catalogs I can access.

Speaking of ‘Superbubbles,’ our solar system lies near the center of an old superbubble, the “Local Bubble”, which is roughly 300 light-years across and contains an average of 1/10 as many atoms/cm3 as the surrounding areas of the Milky Way.

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