Image Credit: Derek Rowley
The “bubble” is created by the stellar wind from a massive hot, young central star. The nebula is near a giant molecular cloud which contains the expansion of the bubble nebula while itself being excited by the hot central star, causing it to glow.
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The New General Catalogue of Nebulae and Clusters of Stars (abbreviated NGC) is an astronomical catalogue of deep-sky objects compiled by John Louis Emil Dreyer in 1888.
7,840 NGC objects
The NGC contains 7,840 objects, including galaxies, open clusters, globular clusters and nebulae.
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Lists of New General Catalogue objects (NGC)
To view the NGC objects below from In-The-Sky website by Dominic Ford.
| NGC Objects: NGC 1 thru NGC 7840 (7840 objects) |
| NGC by Open Cluster (640 objects) |
| NGC by Globular Cluster (196 objects) |
| NGC by Galaxy (6020 objects) |
| NGC by Galaxy Pair (19 objects) |
| NGC by Galaxy Triplet (3 objects) |
| NGC by Planetary Nebula (94 objects) |
| NGC by Supernova Remnant (9 objects) |
| NGC by Emission Region (8 objects) |
| NGC by Reflection Nebula (24 objects) |
| NGC by HII Regions (clouds of ionized hydrogen) (50 objects) |
| NGC by Asterism (43 objects) |
| NGC by Star (221 objects) |
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Other Deep Sky Objects
| Abell – Abell Catalog | |
| ARP – Arp’s Catalog | |
| B – Barnard | |
| C – Caldwell | |
| Cr – Collinder | |
| IC – Index Catalogue | |
| M – Messier | |
| Mel – Melotte | |
| NGC – New General Catalogue | |
| SH2 – Sharpless | |
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