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Strawberry and Pie (Gum 14 and Gum 15)

Gum 14/15 Vela Complex (HOO)

 

Gum 14 (RCW27 or Ru64; the Pie) is a large emission nebula (left of image) which contains many types of objects; Emission, dark and reflection nebulae (NGC2626), an open cluster (NGC2671) and planetary nebulae too (PK259+00.1, PK260+00.1 and PK260+00.2)

 

The beatiful stawberry like object (bottom centre) is an HII region Gum15

 

On the right of couse we can see parts of the famous Vela SNR.

 

More details; astrob.in/mi88mc/0/

 

 

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Uploaded on February 11, 2022