Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Scorpius (Sco)  ·  Contains:  NGC 6357  ·  the War and Peace Nebula
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Just for Fun, Logan Carpenter
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Just for fun, I decided to zoom deep into the image I took of the Lobster Nebular NGC6357 to see if I had captured some detail of the star cluster Pismis 24 and the nebula structure below and while certainly not of Hubble quality, it wasn't too shabby I thought, having been taken from the backyard. 🙂
Pismis 24-1, (the brightest star in the cluster) was initially thought to be incredible large at 200-300 solar masses but has now been identified as two stars of around 100 solar masses each.

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Just for Fun, Logan Carpenter