Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Lynx (Lyn)  ·  Contains:  PK164+31.1
Getting plate-solving status, please wait...
Jones-Emberson 1 - Headphone Nebula, Michel Makhlouta
Powered byPixInsight

Jones-Emberson 1 - Headphone Nebula

Getting plate-solving status, please wait...
Jones-Emberson 1 - Headphone Nebula, Michel Makhlouta
Powered byPixInsight

Jones-Emberson 1 - Headphone Nebula

Equipment

Loading...

Acquisition details

Loading...

Description

Jones-Emberson 1 / PK 164+31.1

Also known as the Headphone Nebula, the faint 14th magnitude planetary nebula is located in the constellation Lynx, at a distance of 1600 light-years from my balcony.

When a star with a mass up to eight times that of the Sun runs out of fuel at the end of its life, the remnants of the atmosphere of the star is expelled as its supply of fusion-able core hydrogen became depleted..This allows the hot, inner core of the star (collapsing from a red giant to a white dwarf) to radiate strongly, causing this outward-moving cocoon of gas to glow brightly.

They are called “planetary” nebulae because early observers thought they looked like planets; but they don’t have anything to do with planets at all.

Although the expanding nebula will fade away over the next few thousand years, the central white dwarf may well survive for billions of years -- to when our universe may be a very different place.

Source: Wikipedia, APOD

Comments