Newly discovered spherical planetary nebula

[chrisyeo]

"Dave Jurasevich of the Mount Wilson Observatory in California spotted the "Cygnus Bubble" while recording images of the region on 6 July 2008. A few days later, amateur astronomers Mel Helm and Keith Quattrocchi also found it.

The bubble, which was officially named PN G75.5+1.7 last week, has been there a while. A closer look at images from the second Palomar Sky Survey revealed it had the same size and brightness 16 years ago. Jurasevich thinks it was overlooked because it is very faint."


http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg2 ... space.html

[kirbyong]

oh man that is pretty cool

[Airconvent]

mm..no mention of its brightness. I assume its too dim to be seen from Singapore...visually anyway.

[Zephyrus]

I don't think it's even visible visually. You'd probably need to do astrophotography for it to show.