Wallpaper author:
Bernard Miller
01 Dec 2023
SH2-132 (The Lion Nebula)
This is an image of SH2-132, also known as the Lion Nebula. It is a faint emission nebula about 10,000 light years away in the constellation Cepheus. Two Wolf-Rayet stars have been identified in the Lion Nebula (HD 211564, HD 211853) and are responsible for ionizing the gas in this region.
Dataset from which the image was processed
Sh 2-132
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