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Deutsche Version MPE HEG X-Ray Astronomy Wave ROSAT Gallery ROSAT Calendar Images 1994
Cygnus Superbubble
The Cygnus Superbubble is a highly-structured, shell-type hot gas cloud in the constellation Cygnus. Within the framework of the ROSAT Survey it was possible for the first time to reproduce the thirteen-degree extended object as a whole with high resolution. The lower right part of the Super Bubble is shaded by a foreground molecular cloud. The overexposed white patch a little below the centre is the Cygnus-Loop, a well-known, much closer supernova remnant. The two million-degree Cygnus Superbubble is about 6,000 light years away and has a radius of 700 light years. It is assumed that it formed mainly by the interaction of the strong stellar winds and supernova explosions of a young star cluster.
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ROSAT (Röntgensatellit) 1994
Images from the X-ray sky with the ROSAT telescope · All rights reserved:
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