THE DEADHEAD NEBULA
Discovered in 2022
Patchick-Strottner-Drechsler object 1 / PaStDr object 1 / Nova shell G332
The constellation Centaurus is one of the most interesting cosmic regions due to its diversity.
We are very pleased to present another exciting object in Centaurus.
The Deadhead Nebula is a joint discovery by Dana Patchick, Marcel Drechsler, and Xavier Strottner - the scientific lead was Professor Robert Fesen of Dartmouth College (Hanover, NH).
This very unusual looking object is an extremely faint fine gas shell around the emission line star CD-30 11814.
The structure has a diameter of 15.5 arcminutes and is located at coordinates: 14:55:28.61 -30:41:56.66 (J2000).
The origin of this shell is a stellar nova whose exact age is not yet known.
