Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Hydra (Hya)  ·  Contains:  PK283+25.1
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ESO-378-1: A Rare Planetary Nebula in HOO with RGB stars, gmadkat
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ESO-378-1: A Rare Planetary Nebula in HOO with RGB stars

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ESO-378-1: A Rare Planetary Nebula in HOO with RGB stars, gmadkat
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ESO-378-1: A Rare Planetary Nebula in HOO with RGB stars

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ESO 378-1 is a rarely imaged bubble type planetary nebula 2000 light years away in Hydra.
The bubble is quite symmetric as it continues to expand around a collapsing dying star shedding its gas layers.
This is 4 light years across and its type lasts for a short time on a cosmic scale existing for several tens of thousands of years before its gases disperse and fade away.
Imaged in Ha and O III and RGB stars on the Planewave CDK 700 at Observatorio El Sauce, Chile.
Image Preprocessing: Mike SelbyProcessed by me in Pixinsight and Photoshop. The Ha was masked by the stronger OIII and I had to blend back a stronger mix.

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