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NGC 2020 is an HII Region surrounding the Wolf-Rayet star BAT99-59. It is located in the Large Magellanic Cloud. NGC 2020 has been created by a solitary mammoth star 200,000 times brighter than our Sun. Data from Hubble, processed by John Bozeman
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NGC 2020 is an HII Region surrounding the Wolf-Rayet star BAT99-59. It is located in the Large Magellanic Cloud. NGC 2020 has been created by a solitary mammoth star 200,000 times brighter than our Sun. Data from Hubble, processed by John Bozeman


Data from the Hubble Space Telescope MAST Portal. Release date: 2020-04-24

Camera: WFC3

Color Mapped:
RED – F657N
GREEN – F502N
BLUE – F502N

Processed with FITS Liberator, GraXpert, PixInsight and Photoshop 2024.

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Nebula was discovered on 30 Dec 1836 by polymath John Herschel.
Together with NGC 2014 it makes up the Cosmic Reef

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NGC_2020​

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    Left (blue) NGC 2020 and right (red) NGC 2014, photo by Hubble Space Telescope

    This image is one of the most photogenic examples of the many turbulent stellar nurseries the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has observed during its 30-year lifetime. The portrait features the giant nebula NGC 2014 and its neighbour NGC 2020 which together form part of a vast star-forming region in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way, approximately 163 000 light-years away. The image is nicknamed the “Cosmic Reef” because it resembles an undersea world.
    Credit:

    NASA, ESA, and STScI
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NGC_2020