Wallpaper author:
Franz Rettenbacher
30 Dec 2023
RCW 16 with SHO
RCW 16 or NGC 2467, also nicknamed the "Skull and Crossbones Nebula", is a star-forming region including areas where large clouds of hydrogen gas incubate new stars. The distance from us ist estimatet 20.000 ly.
Dataset from which the image was processed
NGC 2467
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