NGC 7635 The Bubble Nebula in SHO (Kevan Noble)

NGC 7635 The Bubble Nebula in SHO

The Bubble Nebula is 7 light-years across – about one-and-a-half times the distance from our sun to its nearest stellar neighbour, Alpha Centauri – and resides 7,100 light-years from Earth in the constellation Cassiopeia.The seething star forming this nebula is 45 times more massive than our sun. Gas on the star gets so hot that it escapes away into space as a "stellar wind" moving at over 4 million miles per hour. This outflow sweeps up the cold, interstellar gas in front of it, forming the outer edge of the bubble much like a snowplow piles up snow in front of it as it moves forward.As the surface of the bubble's shell expands outward, it slams into dense regions of cold gas on one side of the bubble. This asymmetry makes the star appear dramatically off-centre from the bubble, with its location in the 7 o'clock position in the this view. Dense pillars of cool hydrogen gas laced with dust appear at the upper left of the picture, and more "fingers" can be seen nearly face-on, behind the translucent bubble.

The gases heated to varying temperatures emit different colours: oxygen is hot enough to emit blue light in the bubble near the star, while the cooler pillars are yellow from the combined light of hydrogen and nitrogen. The pillars are similar to the iconic columns in the "Pillars of Creation" in the Eagle Nebula. As seen with the structures in the Eagle Nebula, the Bubble Nebula pillars are being illuminated by the strong ultraviolet radiation from the brilliant star inside the bubble.The Bubble Nebula was discovered in 1787 by William Herschel. It is being formed by an O star, BD +60°2522, an extremely bright, massive, and short-lived star that has lost most of its outer hydrogen and is now fusing helium into heavier elements. The star is about 4 million years old, and in 10 million to 20 million years, it will likely detonate as a supernova.

Taken on contiguous nights 6 to 10 August 2022. Moon was 50% to 96% but nice and low and setting during the sessions.

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RA (center)	23h20m50s.194
RA (top/left)	23h17m40s.464
RA (top/right)	23h21m55s.264
RA (bottom/right)	23h23m59s.291
RA (bottom/left)	23h19m43s.395

Dec (center)	+61°12′19″.69
Dec (top/left)	+61°13′47″.74
Dec (top/right)	+60°50′50″.87
Dec (bottom/right)	+61°10′35″.36
Dec (bottom/left)	+61°33′47″.93

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