Blowing cosmic bubbles
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image reveals an expanding shell of glowing gas surrounding a hot, massive star in our Milky Way Galaxy. The shell is being shaped by strong stellar winds of material and radiation produced by the bright star at the left, which is 10 to 20 times more massive than our Sun.
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| Position (RA): | 23 20 50.62 |
| Position (Dec): | 61° 12' 25.44" |
| Field of view: | 2.45 x 2.60 arcminutes |
| Orientation: | North is 143.3° right of vertical |
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