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NGC 7822, Jeff Ridder
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NGC 7822

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NGC 7822

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NGC 7822 is a young star forming complex in the constellation Cepheus. It is a stellar nursery that encompasses the emission nebula Sharpless 171 and the cluster of young stars named Berkeley 59. The complex is about 2900 light-years away and the younger bits are only a few million years old -- babies on universal timescales. That bright star in the blue region to the left of the dark, shark-shaped nebula is BD+66 1673 (rolls off the tongue, no?), one of the hottest stars within 1 kpc of the Sun. It is an eclipsing binary system and is one of the primary sources illuminating the nebula and shaping the "pillars of creation" like formations. Fun fact: NGC 7822 features prominently in the game Elite Dangerous where it contains a large number of fictional stellar black holes.

This is a narrowband image with RGB for natural star color.

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NGC 7822, Jeff Ridder