NGC6334, The Cat's Paw Nebula (Chris Plonski)

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NGC6334, The Cat's Paw Nebula

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NGC6334, The Cat's Paw Nebula

This one was a difficult target from my latitude as it only rises to a maximum of 19 degrees above the southern horizon, but it is a very cool target I wanted to image in spite of all the atmosphere I imaged this through.

NGC6334 is aptly named the "Cat's Paw Nebula" and is represented here using a modified natural color palette. NGC 6334 lies about 5500 light-years away in the constellation Scorpius, the Scorpion and spans 50 light years across.

NGC 6334 is one of the most active nurseries of massive stars in our galaxy and is the birthplace of many brilliant blue stars, each nearly ten times the mass of our Sun and only a few million years old. The dust and gas between us and the Cat's Paw filter out much of the blue and green light leaving most of the stars more reddish and gold with some of the brighter stars showing some blue.

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RA (center)	17h19m59s.35
RA (top/left)	17h21m41s.78
RA (top/right)	17h23m34s.48
RA (bottom/right)	17h18m19s.19
RA (bottom/left)	17h16m21s.22

Dec (center)	-35°54′51″.9
Dec (top/left)	-36°45′54″.2
Dec (top/right)	-35°21′40″.10
Dec (bottom/right)	-35°03′48″.4
Dec (bottom/left)	-36°27′40″.4

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