#runaway star

[the-wolf-and-moon]

Zeta Ophiuchi, Runaway Star

[johnlyngfr]

The Flaming Star Nebula

A nearby nebula illuminated by a runaway star

The Flaming Star Nebula is a nearby interstellar dust cloud illuminated by a star that is hurtling through our region of the galaxy. The star at the centre, AE Aurigae, is a “Runaway Star” that was ejected from the intense Trapezium area of the Orion Nebula when several binary stars collided two million years ago.

This visiting star now brightly illuminates the centre of the nebula, but its arrival created a shock wave that thrusted the gas and dust in a sweeping arc, visible across the bottom of the image.

The brightly illuminated area is only about 5 light years in diameter, certainly very small on a galactic scale. However, it is 1,000 times larger than our entire solar system.

I photographed the Flaming Star Nebula from my garden in Strasbourg France on two evening in March 2026. This final image was built from 140 photos, where each was a 3 minute exposure (7 hours of photography).

Equipment used to capture images:

Telescope: Redcat51

Computer: ASIAIR

Mount: AM5

Filter: Optolong L-Enhance

Camera: ASI183MC-PRO

Processing Software:

Pixinsight + WBPP + MAS

Blur Exterminator

Noise Exterminator

Star Exterminator 

Seti Astro Suite

[quiltofstars]

The Flaming Star Nebula, IC 405 // Alex Linde

This nebula is lit up by the star at the center of this image, AE Aurigae. This star is a blue-white giant star about 1,300 light years away. It is also an irregular variable star that happens to be a runaway star, ejected from the star cluster at the heart of the Orion Nebula!

[ahgasegotarmy116]

Okay y'all need to listen to Runaway Star

I'm serious like this is my new obsession!!!!

This album wrecked me from top to bottom and if you love yourself at all then you'll check this out 😮‍💨

For the girlies OBSESSED with Jungkook's duality Sweet & Lethal JJK is gonna be your song like I shit you not I've had this on repeat all day!!!

Girly mentioned Jungkook BY NAME I can't!!!

This album is made for all of us kpop girlies in mind but honestly it's so lowkey that anyone could listen to it (except for the very end of S&L but even that is lowkey lmao)

This album is by the lovely ScorpioChiq who also happens to be our fellow fanfic lover @yoonkooks-yn 🩷💙💜

Another one of her songs called Galaxies in Your Eyes is inspired by and got it's namesake from a wonderful fic by the even more wonderful @oddinary4bts called The Boy with Galaxies in His Eyes

I highly highly highly recommend checking out both!

And here's the link for the apple music girlies so you don't have any excuses hehe

Kay love you guysss byeee

-Luna

[verseinfinity]

Zeta Ophiuchi

[nickysfacts]

Betelgeuse! Betelgeuse! Betelgeuse!

👻🌌👻

[chibinotan]

Travelling Star