Jul 30, 2025
The Serpent's Nebula, Sh2-54 (top left) // Gabriele Gegenbauer
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The Serpent's Nebula, Sh2-54 (top left) // Gabriele Gegenbauer
Visible Light Nebula
Sh2-54 // Alex Woronow
Sh2-54 // Logan Carpenter
Infrared Nebula
Sh2-54 // Larry S
The Archer and the Serpent: The Omega Nebula (M17, left), The Eagle Nebula (M16, center), and Sh2-54 (right) // Terry Hancock
The star cluster NGC 6604 is shown in this image taken by the Wide Field Imager attached to the 2.2-metre MPG/ESO telescope at the La Silla Observatory in Chile. NGC 6604 is the bright grouping towards to the upper left of the image. It is a young star cluster that is the densest part of a more widely scattered association containing about one hundred brilliant blue-white stars. The picture also shows the cluster’s associated nebula — a cloud of glowing hydrogen gas that is called Sh2-54 — as well as dust clouds.