Dr. A. Lobel
Royal Observatory of Belgium

Yellow hypergiant HR 5171

Research

Spitzer Space Telescope image of the yellow hypergiant HR 5171 observed towards the Gum nebula. The bright central star is HR 5171A. The nebular arc-like clouds are observed with the Infrared Camera around 8 micrometer and belong to the HII region Gum 48d.

HR5171SpitzerIRAC



HR5171SpitzerIRACannotated



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