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NGC 7822, the Cosmic Question Mark...?, Charles Pevsner
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NGC 7822, the Cosmic Question Mark...?

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A common story with emission nebulae:  Ungrateful children.  Radiation from the central cluster of newly formed stars is blasting away the molecular clouds that led to the star formation in the first place.

Although it’s not the brightest star in this image, BD+66 1673 (lying above the inverted horse’s head) is the one of the hottest stars within a kiloparsec of the sun, about 100,000 times brighter than the sun.  Its powerful stellar winds are thought to be largely responsible for sculpting this rich and questionable nebular complex.

The dot that punctuates the question mark is the Little Rosette Nebula (LBN 577, Sh2-170), a diffuse H-II region ionized by a central star, LS I +64 11, part of Stock 18 (the 18th of 24 small open clusters cataloged by Jurgen Stock in the 1950’s).

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NGC 7822, the Cosmic Question Mark...?, Charles Pevsner