Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Pismis 24

Pismis 24

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Original – The star cluster Pismis 24 lies in the core of the large emission nebula NGC 6357 that extends one degree on the sky in the direction of the Scorpius constellation. Part of the nebula is ionised by the youngest (bluest) heavy stars in Pismis 24. The intense ultraviolet radiation from the blazing stars heats the gas surrounding the cluster and creates a bubble in NGC 6357. The presence of these surrounding gas clouds makes probing into the region even harder.

Reason

Good quality image, the image was already been chosen as and reached featured picture status in Commons.

Articles in which this image appears

Gum catalog, Hubble Space Telescope, List of light sources, NGC 6357, Pismis 24-1, RCW Catalogue, Sharpless catalog, Space exploration

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Space/Looking out

Creator

NASA

• Support as nominator --Mediran ^{talk to me!} 06:07, 15 December 2012 (UTC)
• Support - an amazing photo! 21h 17m 2s (talk) 11:48, 15 December 2012 (UTC)
• comment is it me or have they pushed the enhancement a bit far? a lot of blue speckle at full size.©Geni 16:32, 16 December 2012 (UTC)
  • It's fairly typical for nebula photos. Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 22:32, 16 December 2012 (UTC)
• Support Somewhat curious as to whether the speckles are part of the natural image or lens, signal, or processing noise but I think this falls under hte exceptions for hard to duplicate/historical photographs that allows for such things. Cat-fivetc ---- 13:28, 21 December 2012 (UTC)
  • I suspect they're cosmic rays. Though that I don't know for certain is kind of embarrassing, given my father makes giant telescopes for a living. Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 14:58, 21 December 2012 (UTC)
• Support by the way. Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 14:58, 21 December 2012 (UTC)
• Support, interesting despite of what appears to me as a noise. Brandmeister^talk 00:06, 22 December 2012 (UTC)

Promoted File:EmissionNebula NGC6357.jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 09:03, 29 December 2012 (UTC)