NGC 2359: Thor’s Helmet

NGC 2359 is a helmet-fashioned cosmic cloud with cruise-adore appendages popularly referred to as Thor’s Helmet. Heroically sized even for a Norse god, Thor’s Helmet is about 30 light-years across. Of course, the helmet is more adore an interstellar bubble, blown as a fast wind from the shiny, giant neatly-known person shut to the bubble’s heart inflates a build internal the surrounding molecular cloud. Diagnosed as a Wolf-Rayet neatly-known person, the central neatly-known person is an especially sizzling giant belief to be in a transient, pre-supernova stage of evolution. NGC 2359 is found about 15,000 light-years away within the constellation of the Broad Overdog. The remarkably titillating image is a mixed cocktail of files from broadband and narrowband filters using three assorted telescopes. It captures natural taking a perceive stars and the notable parts of the nebula’s filamentary structures. The predominant bluish hue is solid emission from doubly ionized oxygen atoms within the dazzling gasoline.