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The Termite Hole Cluster, NGC 2477 // Massimo Di Fusco
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The Termite Hole Cluster, NGC 2477 // Massimo Di Fusco
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M8: The Lagoon Nebula - July 7th, 1998.
"The bright Lagoon Nebula is home to a diverse array of astronomical objects. Particularly interesting sources include a bright open cluster of stars and several energetic star-forming regions. The general red glow is caused by luminous hydrogen gas, while the dark filaments are caused by absorption by dense lanes of dust. The Lagoon Nebula, also known as M8 and NGC 6523, lies about 5000 light-years away. It can be located with binoculars in the constellation of Sagittarius, spanning a region over three times the diameter of a full Moon."
Westerlund 1, 12000 lys away l Webb
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The Soul Nebula
Otherwise known as Westerhout 5 and a few others, it's a emissions nebula in the constellation of Cassiopeia, and often shown alongside it's neighbour the heart nebula.
Both areas are star forming regions with large open clusters, which power the glowing gas that make these nebulas so beautiful.
From Astronomy Picture of the Day; July 4, 2025:
NGC 6946 and NGC 6939 Alberto Pisabarro
Face-on spiral galaxy NGC 6946 and open star cluster NGC 6939 share this cosmic snapshot, composed with over 68 hours of image data captured with a small telescope on planet Earth. The field of view spans spans about 1 degree or 2 full moons on the sky toward the northern constellation Cepheus. Seen through faint interstellar dust clouds near the plane of our Milky Way galaxy, the stars of open cluster NGC 6939 are 5,600 light-years in the distance, near bottom right in the frame. Face-on spiral galaxy NGC 6946 is at top left, but lies some 22 million light-years away. In the last 100 years, 10 supernovae have been discovered in NGC 6946, the latest one seen in 2017. By comparison, the average rate of supernovae in our Milky Way is about 1 every 100 years or so. Of course, NGC 6946 is also known as The Fireworks Galaxy.
"THIS STUNNING, DEEP VIEW OF THE LAGOON IS NEARLY 100 LIGHT-YEARS ACROSS."
PIC INFO: Resolution at 1401x2048 -- Spotlight on the The Wide and Deep Lagoon. 📸/🔭: Image & Copyright: Michael Miller, Jimmy Walker.
EXPLANATION/OVERVIEW: "Ridges of glowing interstellar gas and dark dust clouds inhabit the turbulent, cosmic depths of the Lagoon Nebula. Also known as M8, the bright star forming region is about 5,000 light-years distant. But it still makes for a popular stop on telescopic tours of the constellation Sagittarius, toward the centre of our Milky Way Galaxy. Dominated by the telltale red emission of ionized hydrogen atoms recombining with stripped electrons, this stunning, deep view of the Lagoon is nearly 100 light-years across. Right of centre, the bright, compact, hourglass shape is gas ionized and sculpted by energetic radiation and extreme stellar winds from a massive young star. In fact, the many bright stars of open cluster NGC 6530 drift within the nebula, just formed in the Lagoon several million years ago."
-- ASTRONOMY PICTURE OF THE DAY (APOD), published on September 9, 2016
Source: www.star.ucl.ac.uk/~apod/apod/ap160909.html.