Messier 78: A Reflection Nebula in Orion Wall Art including Frame tapestry The "wings" of NGC 6302

The "wings" of NGC 6302 are regions of gas heated to more than 36

They were discovered on the first panoramas taken by the IMP camera on the July 4

000 light-years away in the constellation Cygnus

Sato et al

and NASA/ESA

Messier 78: A Reflection Nebula in Orion Wall Art including Frame tapestry The "wings" of NGC 6302This new image of the reflection nebula Messier 78 was captured using the Wide Field Imager camera on the MPG ESO 2. 2 metre telescope at the La Silla Observatory, Chile. This colour picture was created from many monochrome exposures taken through blue, yellow green and red filters, supplemented by exposures through a filter that isolates light from glowing hydrogen gas. The total exposure times were 9, 9, 17. 5 and 15. 5 minutes per filter,