Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Ara (Ara)  ·  Contains:  NGC 6188  ·  NGC 6193  ·  Rim Nebula
NGC 6188: The Dragons of Ara, Utkarsh mishra
NGC 6188: The Dragons of Ara
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NGC 6188: The Dragons of Ara

NGC 6188: The Dragons of Ara, Utkarsh mishra
NGC 6188: The Dragons of Ara
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NGC 6188: The Dragons of Ara

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The dragons of Ara

Image credit copyright: Utkarsh Mishra & Lloyd Smith Deepskywest

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Dark shapes with bright edges winging their way through dusty NGC 6188 are tens of light-years long. The emission nebula is found near the edge of an otherwise dark large molecular cloud in the southern constellation Ara, about 4,000 light-years away. Born in that region only a few million years ago, the massive young stars of the embedded Ara OB1 association sculpt the fantastic shapes and power the nebular glow with stellar winds and intense ultraviolet radiation. The recent star formation itself was likely triggered by winds and supernova explosions, from previous generations of massive stars, that swept up and compressed the molecular gas

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NGC 6188: The Dragons of Ara, Utkarsh mishra