#thorshelmet

[anothercloudynight]

NGC 2359, Thor's Helmet 

Distance: 15,000.00 light years

Constellation Canis Major

Feb 28,29 2024 -Montcada i Reixac-

[imagella-blog]

Gothic tattoo sketch of Thor's helmet in deep blacks

Thor Tattoo #Gothictattoo #ThorsHelmet #Deepblacks #Metallicsilver #Flatdesign

[astroscotty87]

Thor’s Helmet (NGC2359) Is an emmision nebula in the constellation Canis Major. Approximately 11,970lyrs away and 30lyrs in size, this beauty is home to an extremely hot Wolf-rayet star. WR7 is believed to be in a brief pre-supernova state and it is the cause of the ionization and shape of this awesome nebula. 

[fenrir-wolf]

Il mondo era crudele. Davanti a me si aprivano soltanto due alternative: o diventavo un assassino di sogni come gli altri, oppure mi rinchiudevo nella mia mente trasformandola in una fortezza. Optai per la seconda. A. Jodorowsky

Image Credit & Copyright: Martin Pugh

[kornkidd]

NGC 2359: Thor's Helmet Image Credit & Copyright: Martin Pugh Explanation: NGC 2359 is a helmet-shaped cosmic cloud with wing-like appendages popularly called Thor's Helmet. Heroically sized even for a Norse god, Thor's Helmet is about 30 light-years across. In fact, the helmet is more like an interstellar bubble, blown as a fast wind from the bright, massive star near the bubble's center inflates a region within the surrounding molecular cloud. Known as a Wolf-Rayet star, the central star is an extremely hot giant thought to be in a brief, pre-supernova stage of evolution. NGC 2359 is located about 15,000 light-years away in the constellation of the Great Overdog. The remarkably sharp image is a mixed cocktail of data from broadband and narrowband filters using three different telescopes. It captures natural looking stars and the details of the nebula's filamentary structures. The predominant bluish hue is strong emission from doubly ionized oxygen atoms in the glowing gas. #Thor #thorshelmet #nebula #space #universe #physics #theoreticalphysics #cosmos pre #supernova #star #stars https://www.instagram.com/p/CBWL4i2HyAk/?igshid=1w5wy8e4b9354

[awewriter-blog]

Our good friend Chris Appleton processed the latest Thor’s Helmet taken by Cosmic Obsession Kerrville. Beautiful rendering post production. #astrophotography #astronomy #thorshelmet https://www.instagram.com/p/B63WYGTJo4f/?igshid=1w1xp99tfckl8

[awewriter-blog]

Latest image from the observatory. #NGC2359 #ThorsHelmet Hey folks....Been working on this one for a while, waiting for the moon to go down so we could get the needed RGB data. This NGC 2359 The Duck Nebula....Aka Thor's Helmet. Pretty pleased with data, not so much with processing. The harder the objects get the more demanding the processing gets... and still have a ton to learn....But getting there. Will reprocess when have a little more time to devote to it..... Second image is a slightly cropped image.... Hope y'all enjoy!....and Merry Christmas! Bobster, Francis and Deb Cosmic Obsession Kerrville Telescope: Planewave CDK-17 @F6.8 Mount: Astro Physics AP 1600 (guided) Camera: FLI 09000 CCD Cam Filter: Astrodon Gen 2 RGB Filters, Ha and OIII narrowband Guidescope/Camera: William Optics 71MM/Lodestar X2 Software: The SkyX, Pixinsight, Photoshop Images: Ha and OIII 11x1200s ea., RGB 8x600s ea. all unbinned Total Exp: 13.3 hrs and 6.5 hrs Flats, Darks and Bias NGC 2359 (also known as Thor's Helmet) is an emission nebula in the constellation Canis Major. The nebula is approximately 3,670 parsecs (11.96 thousand light years) away and 30 light-years in size. The central star is the Wolf-Rayet star WR7, an extremely hot star thought to be in a brief pre-supernova stage of evolution. It is similar in nature to the Bubble Nebula, but interactions with a nearby large molecular cloud are thought to have contributed to the more complex shape and curved bow-shock structure of Thor's Helmet. It is also catalogued as Sharpless 2-298 and Gum 4. The nebula has an overall bubble shape, but with complex filamentary structures. The nebula contains several hundred solar masses of ionised material, plus several thousand more of unionised gas. It is largely interstellar material swept up by winds from the central star, although some material does appear to be enriched with the products of fusion and is likely to come directly from the star. The expansion rate of different portions of the nebula varies from 10 km/s to at least 30 km/s, leading to age estimates of 78,500 - 236,000 years. https://www.instagram.com/p/B6cQr9MpF4a/?igshid=yfnjj66u22tn