Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Cassiopeia (Cas)  ·  Contains:  Bubble Nebula  ·  HD220057  ·  LBN 548  ·  LBN 549  ·  LDN 1231  ·  NGC 7635  ·  Sh2-162
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Bubble Nebula, Jaspal Chadha
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Bubble Nebula

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Bubble Nebula

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Blown by the wind from a massive star, this interstellar apparition has a surprisingly familiar shape. Cataloged as NGC 7635, it is also known simply as The Bubble Nebula. Although it looks delicate, the 10 light-year diameter bubble offers evidence of violent processes at work.
Bubble's center is a hot, O star, several hundred thousand times more luminous and around 45 times more massive than the Sun. A fierce stellar wind and intense radiation from that star has blasted out the structure of glowing gas against denser material in a surrounding molecular cloud. The intriguing Bubble Nebula and associated cloud complex lie a mere 11,000 light-years away toward the boastful constellation Cassiopeia. This tantalizing view of the cosmic bubble is composed from narrowband image data, recording emission from the region's ionized hydrogen and oxygen atoms.

Orion Optics 14 Inch ODK
Mesu E200 Mrk 2
SX H35 CCD
3nm Ha Chroma - 15 x 600s
3nm S2 Chroma - 10 x 600s
3nm O3 Chroma - 7 x 600s

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Bubble Nebula, Jaspal Chadha