The eye of the universe
- gallery:
- Deepsky
- description:
- This object is called the Wolf-Rayet-134 Ring or Bubble Nebula. But for me it looks like an eye with a dolphin as eyebrow. At least if one emphasises the OIII line as I did. This is a so called HOO image, taken with a full frame cooled astro mono cam and a Ha-Narrowband-Filter and a OIII-Narrowband-Filter. The stars were taken with RGB-Filters. The OIII-line is represented by the blue colours and the Ha-line by the redish ones. Wolf-Rayet 134 is the brightest white star in the center of the eye. Wolf-Rayet-Stars are extremely hot, bright, massive stars, and one of the rarest classes of stars known out there. There are not even 200 of these stars known in the Milkyway which hosts more than 1 Billion of stars. Some of these Wolf-Rayet-Stars produce spectacular nebulae thanks to their strong stellar winds, intense ultraviolet emissions, and clouds of gasses that they shed in earlier stages of their relatively brief lives.
- Copyright:
- Thomas Schifer
- Date:
- 15.11.2022
- Original Size:
- 7015 x 8769 px
