Erly Alexandrino da Silva Neto from Vitória, Brazil NGC 6188 gets its nickname — The Fighting Dragons of Ara — for the ridges of dust that appear at the center of this frame, arched against a blue backdrop of gas and dust lit by the hot young stars of open cluster NGC 6193. Below it lies the Dragon’s Egg Nebula (NGC 6164/5), a bipolar shell of gas ejected by the massive, magnetic binary star HD 148937. The imager combined 8⅔ hours of exposure taken with a 1.2-inch f/4.5 astrograph taken with Hα/OIII and OIII/SII dual-band filters and processed in the Hubble palette.
The dragons’ lair
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