Waiting in the wings

Luigi La Bella from Melilli, Italy The Squid Nebula (Ou4) is a faint cloud of oxygen about 2,300 light-years away in Cepheus, nested within the red hydrogen glow of the Flying Bat Nebula (Sharpless 2–129). Its prominent double lobes may be an outflow from a central triple star system, HR 8119. The imager took 43⅓Continue reading "Waiting in the wings" The post Waiting in the wings appeared first on Astronomy Magazine.