The mystical beauty of the heavens

One of my Latest image's
The Tulip Nebula and Cygnus X-1
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SH2-101

Also known as the Tulip Nebula.
The Tulip Nebula is about 6,000 light years away in the Constellation Cygnus the swan.
Just above and to the right the first ever Black Hole was discovered Cygnus X-1
A massive blue supergiant Star HDE 226868 is feeding the Black Hole.
HDE 226868 is about 7,200 light years away and is about forty times more massive than our Sun.

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