31 May 2020
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]
NGC 1763
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Filtro | Exp. media (s) | Esposizione totale | Sottoframe |
|---|---|---|---|
| Halpha | 600 | 3h20m | 20 |
| SII | 600 | 3h20m | 20 |
| OIII | 600 | 3h10m | 19 |