🌫️ Nebula
Bubble Nebula
A giant bubble blown by the wind from one very heavy star.
- Distance
- 7,000 light-years away
- Size
- 6 light-years across
- Discovered
- 1787, by William Herschel
Did you know?
- The star inside is about 15 times heavier than the Sun.
- Its wind of particles blows out at about 6 million km an hour, pushing the edge of the bubble outwards.
- It lies in Cassiopeia, the W-shaped constellation.
Find it in the sky
Compare Bubble Nebula with the Milky WaySide by side, to scale, in the app
More NASA photos of Bubble NebulaStraight from NASA’s image library, in the app
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