#Seagull Nebula

[spacewonder19]

The Seagull Nebula © Gianni Lacroce

[traverse-our-universe]

Seagull Nebula up close | Nick Fritz

[lisamarieblair]

The Seagull Nebula

[quiltofstars]

The Seagull Nebula, IC 2177 // Jingquan Yan

[cosmicfocus]

Gum 23

A large wedge shaped emission nebula, sliced by lanes of obscuring dust

A Nebula in Vela Also catalogued as RCW 38 Image exposure: 58 minutesImage Size:Size: 2.09° x 1.39°Image date:2024-04-11 I managed less than an hour of imaging data before the clouds came and put a stop to proceedings. This is an HII (ionised hydrogen) nebula with a very young star cluster emerging from its birthplace within the gas cloud. Gum 23 is described in Hartung’s Astronomical…

[astronomypolls]

[anothercloudynight]

IC 2177 Seagull Nebula & NGC 2353.

Distance to Earth: 3.800 ly

Constellations of Canis Major and Monoceros.

January 28,2023 -Montcada i Reixac-

[mary-laib]

We just discussed this picture of the seagull nebula in my astrophysics class yesterday.

On the lower right ride of it’s wing, you can see a really bright star, but there’s actually a cluster of bright stars in the area above it, stretching all the way up the wing. You just can’t see them because there’s a cloud of dust blocking the view of them. If you look at the dark space above the wing, you can discern pretty well where the dust cloud extends.

Seagull Nebula Over Pinnacles National Park

[ton-618-ton-618]

2024 March 13

A starfield features a large nebula, mostly red, partly blue, which seems to have the shape of a bird.

The Seagull Nebula

Credit & Copyright: Gianni Lacroce

Explanation: A broad expanse of glowing gas and dust presents a bird-like visage to astronomers from planet Earth, suggesting its popular moniker: the Seagull Nebula. This portrait of the cosmic bird covers a 1.6-degree wide swath across the plane of the Milky Way, near the direction of Sirius, the alpha star of the constellation of the Big Dog (Canis Major). Of course, the region includes objects with other catalog designations: notably NGC 2327, a compact, dusty emission and reflection nebula with an embedded massive star that forms the bird's head. Dominated by the reddish glow of atomic hydrogen, the complex of gas and dust clouds with bright young stars spans over 100 light-years at an estimated 3,800 light-year distance.

[michaelgabrill]

The Seagull Nebula #NASA https://ift.tt/OgIPcol

[spacewonder19]

IC 2177: Seagull Nebula © CityspaceAstro

[skylobster]

A shame we can’t see nightscapes like this with our naked eye. That being said, seeing the “backbone of night” (the Milky Way) from a truly dark location is an awe-inspiring sight!

2024 February 21

Seagull Nebula over Pinnacles’ Peak Image Credit & Copyright: Dheera Venkatraman

Explanation: The bird is bigger than the peak. Nicknamed for its avian shape, the Seagull Nebula is an emission nebula on the night sky that is vast, spanning an angle over five times the diameter of the full moon and over 200 light years. The head of the nebula is catalogued as IC 2177, and the star cluster under its right wing is catalogued as NGC 2343. Consisting of mostly red-glowing hydrogen gas, the Seagull Nebula incorporates some dust lanes and is forming stars. The peak over which this Seagull seems to soar occurs at Pinnacles National Park in California, USA. The featured image is a composite of long exposure images of the background sky and short exposure images of the foreground, all taken consecutively with the same camera and from the same location.

∞ Source: apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap240221.html

[chasingrainbowsforever]

“The Seagull Nebula” ~ By Gianni Lacroce

[world-beauty]

Deep Nebulas: From Seagull to California

Credits: Alistair Symon

[quiltofstars]

The Seagull Nebula, IC 2177 // Miguel G.

[cosmicfocus]

Seagull Nebula

Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's an enormous cloud of ionised hydrogen gas!

IC 2177 A Bright Nebula in Monoceros Image exposure:120 minutesImage Size:Size: 2.11° x 1.39°Image dates:2024-04-06 It’s a bit of a stretch but I guess, if you look hard enough, it does look a little bit like a bird or a plane flying overhead, although it seems more like a bat to me. When the shape began to emerge as I began to live-stack this image, I thought I’d made a mistake and was…