To the right of the middle of this picture the red nebula NGC 2014 and its blue neighbor NGC 2020 can be seen. Some of the stars in NGC 2014 are huge. The nebula's sparkling centerpiece is a grouping of bright stars, each 10 to 20 times more massive than our Sun. The seemingly isolated blue nebula, NGC 2020, has been created by a solitary mammoth Wolf-Raye star 200,000 times brighter than our Sun. The blue gas was ejected by the star through a series of eruptive events during which it lost part of its outer envelope of material.NGC 2021 is a rather small open star cluster on top of both nebulae.On the left you can see the Seagull nebula NGC 2032 and its neighbor emission nebulae NGC 2029, NGC 2035 & NGC 2040.
This picture is the result of 25 missions through the Slooh Chili two telescope with a total exposure time of 46 minutes. Processing was done in PixInsight.

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