NGC2014

The wonderfully beautiful nebula NGC2014.

The large, red nebula (NGC 2014) and its smaller blue neighbor (NGC 2020)

are part of a vast star-forming region in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite

galaxy of the Milky Way.

The sparkling centerpiece of NGC 2014 is a grouping of bright, hefty stars,

each 10 to 20 times more massive than our Sun. The stars’ ultraviolet radiation

heats the surrounding dense gas. The massive stars also unleash fierce winds

of charged particles that blast away lower-density gas, forming the bubble-like

structures seen on the right.

The blue areas in NGC 2014 reveal the glow of oxygen, heated to nearly

20,000 degrees Fahrenheit by the blast of ultraviolet light. The cooler, red gas

indicates the presence of hydrogen and nitrogen.

By contrast, the seemingly isolated blue nebula at lower left (NGC 2020)

has been shaped by a solitary mammoth star. This young, massive star, called

a Wolf-Rayet, has ejected its outer layers of gas, exposing its searing-hot core,

making it roughly 200,000 times brighter than our Sun.

Star-forming regions generally last tens of millions of years. Star birth in this

region appears to have just started, with a robust episode of newly formed stars,

about 5 million years ago.

-text from NASA (https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/files/ngc2014-ngc2020-tagged.pdf)-

I used the data provided in the Bundle, which is btw a good improvement on the previous version. I stacked it in DSS and edited in PIX and Affinity, going back and forth whenever I needed to do so. I'm not that good in PIX but I know my way around but for some stuff I still have to go to Affintity and I don't mind that at all.

I hope you like and see you ext time!