NGC 6888 - The Crescent Nebula & Soap Bubble Nebula
This is my third attempt on the Crescent Nebula but my first attempt to include the Soap Bubble Nebula.
From NASA: "NGC 6888, also known as the Crescent Nebula, is a about 25 light-years across blown by winds from its central, bright, massive star...Visible within the nebula, NGC 6888's central star is classified as a Wolf-Rayet star (WR 136). The star is shedding its outer envelope in a strong stellar wind, ejecting the equivalent of the Sun's mass every 10,000 years. The nebula's complex structures are likely the result of this strong wind interacting with material ejected in an earlier phase. Burning fuel at a prodigious rate and near the end of its stellar life this star should ultimately go out with a bang in a spectacular supernova explosion. Found in the nebula rich constellation Cygnus, NGC 6888 is about 5,000 light-years away."
The Soap Bubble nebula is a planetary nebula located near the Crescent Nebula. It was discovered by amateur astronomer Dave Jurasevich in 2008.
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https://science.nasa.gov/ngc-6888-crescent-nebulahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crescent_Nebulahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soap_Bubble_Nebula
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