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      An LMC Superbubble
      Wallpaper author:
      ian howarth

      31 May 2020

      An LMC Superbubble

      In 1956, astronomer-astronaut Karl Henize created a catalogue of emission-line objects in the Magellanic Clouds. This complex, dubbed LHA120-N11 in that catalogue, is the second-largest star-forming region in the Large Magellanic Cloud; its overall structure is that of a 'superbubble', roughly 1000 light-years across. The rich blues in this Hubble-palette image show that much of the gas is relatively highly ionized by the cluster of hot stars at the centre of the nebula, NGC 1761.

      [Its major components are identified in the annotated version https://telescope.live/gallery/134]

      Dataset from which the image was processed

      NGC 1763

      7 credit

      Open
      Telescope Live
      CHI-1-CCD
      • Type of target
        ............................................................................................................................
        Emission Nebula
      • Camera
        ............................................................................................................................
        FLI ProLine PL9000
      • Target coordinates
        ............................................................................................................................
        RA 74.2146 Dec -66.40694
      • Hemisphere
        ............................................................................................................................
        Southern
      • Telescope location
        ............................................................................................................................
        Chile
      • Transient event
        ............................................................................................................................
        No
      • Observed on
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        21 Aug 2021 - 05 Aug 2022
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      Avg Exp (s)
      Total Exposure
      Subframes
      Halpha6003h20m20
      SII6003h20m20
      OIII6003h10m19

      An LMC Superbubble