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NGC 6164: Dragons Egg Nebula and Halo

By iftttauthorways4eu on Mon Dec 26 2022

The star at the center created everything. Known as the Dragon’s Egg, this star — a rare, hot, luminous O-type star some 40 times as massive as the Sun — created not only the complex nebula (NGC 6164) that immediately surrounds it, but also the encompassing blue halo. Its name is derived, in part, from […]

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