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This unusual nebula surrounds Wolf-Rayet star WR 134, located about equidistant from the Crescent and Tulip nebulas in the constellation Cygnus. A Wolf-Rayet star is basically a pre-supernova, its high stellar winds pushing the interstellar gas and dust into a roughly spherical shape which in this case is rather asymmetrical, with the right side more pronounced. This is an 8-hour exposure with 2 hours of H-alpha and 6 hours of O-III.