Soap Bubble Nebula discovered by amateur astronomers

The Soap Bubble Nebula, mentioned in the previous item, was actually first seen by amateur astronomer Dave Jurasevich on July 6th, 2008 and first noted and reported by amateur observers Keith Quattrocchi and Mel Helm on July 17th:
Amateur Astronomers Discover 'Soap Bubble' in Space - FOXNews.com
/-- "Bubble" Nebula in Cygnus - Dave Jurasevich
/-- Crescent BubbleNB - Keith B. Quattrocchi and Mel Helm
/-- Astronomy Picture of the Day - Nov.13.08
/-- Soap Bubble Nebula - NOAO

Posted 07/24/09 | 16:20:58 by TopSpacer | Filed under: Astronomy

Comments

Gotta be a fake. No perfect transparent sphere like that could exist.

Posted by Dick Hougardy at 07/30/09 19:17:53

Hi Dick,
It is quite real. The nebula has now been seen by multiple telescopes. The transparency comes from the fact a wave of matter moving outward from an exploding star would have very low density.
- Clark

Posted by TopSpacer at 08/01/09 10:43:20

Add Comment

Note: HTML code will not work except for bare URLs (i.e. http://www...). Also, for postings older than 1 week, comments are filtered manually to prevent spam and so may not appear for a few days.
Note: Trash talking and name calling, especially in anonymous comments, won't be tolerated.