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Credit & Copyright: Robert Eder
Explanation:
Framing a bright emission region,
this
telescopic view
looks out across a pretty field of stars along
the plane of our Milky Way Galaxy, toward the nebula rich constellation
Cygnus
the Swan.
Popularly called the Tulip Nebula, the reddish glowing cloud of
interstellar gas and dust is also found in the
1959 catalog
by astronomer Stewart Sharpless
as
Sh2-101.
About 8,000 light-years distant and 70 light-years across
the complex and beautiful nebula blossoms near the center of this
composite image.
Ultraviolet radiation from young energetic
O stars at the edge of the Cygnus
OB3 association,
ionizes the atoms
and powers the emission from the Tulip Nebula.
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See also:
- APOD: 2025 September 19 Á The NGC 6914 Complex
- APOD: 2025 September 10 Á The Great Lacerta Nebula
- APOD: 2025 July 21 Á Cats Paw Nebula from Webb Space Telescope
- APOD: 2025 July 16 Á The Rosette Nebula from DECam
- APOD: 2025 July 5 Á Ou4: The Giant Squid Nebula
- APOD: 2025 June 26 Á The Seagull Nebula
- NGC 6164: A Dragon s Egg