NGC 1499: The California Nebula

Drifting thru the Orion Arm of the spiral Milky Manner galaxy, this cosmic cloud accidentally echoes the outline of California on the west flit of the US. Our be pleased Solar also lies through the Milky Manner’s Orion Arm, only about 1,500 gentle-years from the California Nebula. Additionally is named NGC 1499, the typical emission nebula is around 100 gentle-years long. The California Nebula shines with the telltale reddish glow attribute of hydrogen atoms recombining with long lost electrons. The electrons were stripped away, ionized by full of life starlight. In all likelihood offering the full of life starlight that ionizes noteworthy of the nebular gas is the fantastic, hot, bluish valuable person Xi Persei appropriate to the merely of the nebula. A favored goal for astrophotographers, this deep California Nebula represent is a 6 panel telecopic mosaic and covers a huge discipline of survey. The nebula lies in opposition to the constellation Perseus, no longer far from the Pleiades.