Soap Bubble Nebula, Ju 1

This beautiful and symmetric planetary nebula drifts in the constellation Cygnus at a distance of about 4,000 light-years from us. Ju 1 (PN G075.5+01.7) was discovered in 2007 by amateur astronomer Dave Jurasevich . With an angular diameter of about 260 arcseconds , the nebula is extremely faint, and its position against a backdrop of diffuse emission made it particularly difficult to detect. My…