WR 134 Ring Nebula

Made with narrowband filters, this cosmic snapshot covers a discipline of survey regarding the scale of the corpulent Moon for the length of the boundaries of the constellation Cygnus. It highlights the unprecedented edge of a hoop-like nebula traced by the glow of ionized sulfur, hydrogen, and oxygen gas. Embedded within the set’s interstellar clouds of gas and dust, the complex, spirited arcs are sections of bubbles or shells of field topic swept up by the wind from Wolf-Rayet extensive determine WR 134, brightest extensive determine when it comes to the heart of the frame. Distance estimates set WR 134 about 6,000 gentle-years away, making the frame over 50 gentle-years throughout. Shedding their outer envelopes in extremely efficient stellar winds, extensive Wolf-Rayet stars contain burned by their nuclear fuel at a prodigious rate and quit this closing allotment of extensive extensive determine evolution in a spectacular supernova explosion. The stellar winds and closing supernovae enrich the interstellar field topic with heavy ingredients to be incorporated in future generations of stars.