NGC2000, NGC2014, NGC2035 Mosaic

This mosaic image shows several deep-sky objects in the Large Magellanic Cloud.

NGC 2035, the Dragon's Head Nebula is the blue nebulosity at the left side of the image.  On the right side of the image is NGC 2014, the famous "Cosmic Reef" released by NASA on Hubble's 30th anniversary. The seemingly isolated blue nebula close to NGC 2014 is is NGC 2000, a planetary nebula created by a Wolf-Rayet star 200,000 times brighter than our Sun.

The original "Cosmic Reef" from the Hubble Space Telescope:

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/hubble-marks-30-years-in-space-with-tapestry-of-blazing-starbirth

(The total integration time of the image was 22.5 hours. The data was from Telescopelive, which I processed using Pixinsight, Photoshop and Topaz DeNoise)

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