APOD: 2020 September 4 - The Wizard Nebula

Good Red Friday morning, Rallypoint. Today's Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) is titled "The Wizard Nebula." What powers are being wielded in the Wizard Nebula? Gravitation strong enough to form stars, and stellar winds and radiation powerful enough to create and dissolve towers of gas. Located only 8,000 light years away in the constellation Cepheus, the Wizard Nebula surrounds developing open star cluster NGC 7380. The visible wavelength light from the nebula's hydrogen, oxygen, and sulfur atoms is transformed using narrowband filters into green, blue, and red colors in the final composite image.