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The Brain & The Soap Bubble (NGC 6888 + PN G75.5+1.7), Christoph Flixeder
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The Brain & The Soap Bubble (NGC 6888 + PN G75.5+1.7)

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The Brain & The Soap Bubble (NGC 6888 + PN G75.5+1.7), Christoph Flixeder
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The Brain & The Soap Bubble (NGC 6888 + PN G75.5+1.7)

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This image shows the Crescent Nebula (NGC 6888) in a combination of true colors mixed with narrowband data to enhance the Ha and OIII regions.

The Crescent Nebula is an emission nebula in a distance of about 4700ly, located in the constellation of Cygnus.
The distinctive structures of gas are getting emitted and illuminated by the bright Wolf Rayet star „WR 136“.
Not far from the Crescent Nebula you can find the really faint planetary „Soap Bubble Nebula“, which was just discovered in 2007.

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The Brain & The Soap Bubble (NGC 6888 + PN G75.5+1.7), Christoph Flixeder