NGC 7635 Bubble in a Cosmic Sea

orin stepanek · Post by **orin stepanek** » Sun Apr 30, 2006 3:14 pm

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap060428.html
I had some difficulty finding the bubble in this photo; but there it is next to the central blue star at about 10o'clock. there is a great link where you can zoom in on the bubble. Just click on adrift in a cosmic sea. It was really fun to pan around on this link.
Orin

harry · Post by **harry** » Mon May 01, 2006 5:38 am

Hello Orin

Nice image. Is that a bubble or an optical funny.

Its so round and perfect.

Qev · Post by **Qev** » Mon May 01, 2006 3:24 pm

It's a bubble.

Speaking of bubbles, did anyone else notice the weird blue arcs surrounding the star HR8894, when zoomed in on this image at the SkyFactory link? It's the bright, red star below and left of image center. I thought maybe they were image artifacts, but they certainly don't look like it up close...

ta152h0 · Post by **ta152h0** » Mon May 01, 2006 4:19 pm

Wonder what the sky would look like were you living in that area ?

l3p3r · Post by **l3p3r** » Tue May 02, 2006 3:01 am

Not much different I expect, at least in the visible spectrum, though probably far less stars visible at night.

Starship Asterisk*

NGC 7635 Bubble in a Cosmic Sea

NGC 7635 Bubble in a Cosmic Sea

tons of stars