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The Loch Ness Monster Nebula, Yizhou Zhang
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The Loch Ness Monster Nebula

The Loch Ness Monster Nebula, Yizhou Zhang
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The Loch Ness Monster Nebula

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In the Constellation Vulpecula, the Loch Ness Monster quietly sits right in between Vega and Altair, swimming along the milky way. It consists multiple dark nebulae patches including LDN 768, 769, 772, 774 and 775, surrounding two interesting reflection nebulae LBN 133 & 134. If you flip the image upside down you can probably see the Lock Ness Monster with long neck easier, but I still like the current framing...

As a side note, do you know an old Chinese legend story about Vega and Altair? A romantic but sad one. It talks about a forbidden love between Vega - "Zhinv" the goddess and Altair - "Niulang" a farmer; they are punished by the god and kept on each side of the milky way ("Silver River"), and only allowed to meet once per year on lunar calendar July.7th, where a bridge formed by thousands of Magpie set up over the river. Now if they know that Loch Ness Monster is sliently sit below the bridge watching them...

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The Loch Ness Monster Nebula, Yizhou Zhang

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