Subject: AMW0002unu

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• by VinceVega

  A reflection nebula with an emission nebular? It's not reddish so it must contain not so common elements. Anyway, it looks spectacular.

  Posted February 22, 2014 10:16 PM

• by Tiger_Nova

  #EGO middle of white nebular and #pillars. Nice pair of nebs.

  Posted February 27, 2014 9:43 PM

• by msp18 scientist

  We don't see much "reflection" in infrared. Here we have 2 different emission regions in the same nebula: orange = ionized, pink = neutral.

  Posted February 28, 2014 5:39 PM

• by ttfnrob admin, scientist

  Truly spectacular!

  Posted February 28, 2014 5:45 PM

• by JCoop

  Wow. Just wow.

  Posted February 28, 2014 6:00 PM

• by msp18 scientist

  OK, conferring with Rob, we can now confirm that this is part of the NGC 6357 nebula, and the star cluster is Pismis 24.

  Posted February 28, 2014 6:14 PM

• by msp18 scientist

  You have picked out one of the most massive star clusters in the Galaxy here! Pismis 24 has O3 stars, which are rare and 100X the Sun's mass

  Posted February 28, 2014 6:16 PM

• by msp18 scientist

  @Tiger, there is no EGO here. Bright nebulae often have large green regions in our images, but EGOs are small + compact.

  Posted February 28, 2014 6:17 PM

• by Tiger_Nova

  I'll keep that in mind next time, thanks for the info.

  Posted February 28, 2014 8:22 PM

• by jules moderator

  #repeat

  Posted July 11, 2014 9:20 PM

• by Danilio_14

  cool man

  Posted January 29, 2015 6:55 PM