Skull nebula

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The Skull nebula The nebula is an emission nebula, a large star forming region located in the constellation Monoceros, the Unicorn. The nebula is a large cloud of gas and dust that lies near a large molecular cloud and is closely associated with the open cluster NGC 2244, whose stars were formed from the nebula’s matter in the last five million years. The Skull (or Rosette) Nebula’s appearance in optical light resembles a rose flower or the rosette, the stylized flower design used in…

NGC-2467 Skull and Crossbones Nebula by rallyho cropped mobile wallpaper 1080x2400

The Skull Nebula, formally known as NGC 246, is captured in a new image from the European Southern Observatory using the Very Large Telescope.

Sh2-68 the Flaming skull Nebula by Jochen Maes cropped close up mobile wallpaper 1080x2400

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Full write-up here: theastroenthusiast.com/sh2-311/ Yet another image from telescope live. This was a super fun dataset to work with – even though the total integration time was only 6h 40min, the data was very clean and easy to play with. I decided to experiment with a way to separate broadband reflection and H-alpha emission using continuum subtraction only from LRGB data. Even though this method isn’t very “scientific,” it does an extremely good job of letting me enhance different parts…

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