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The Helix Nebula

Blue is oxygen. Red is hydrogen and nitrogen. The colours are the chemistry, not an effect.

The Helix Nebula, NGC 7293
The Helix Nebula, NGC 7293
The Helix Nebula, NGC 7293 shown in a limewash reading corner beside an armchair and a floor lamp - scale render at 40 × 40 cm
The Helix Nebula, NGC 7293 shown in a graphite plaster wall at night, lit by a console lamp - scale render at 40 × 40 cm
The Helix Nebula, NGC 7293 shown in a beamed room with a greige plaster wall above a long oak sideboard - scale render at 40 × 40 cm
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Size (cm)
Frame
Specification
40 × 40 cm
3 mm Aluminium
No Frame
Mount Kit Included
Price
$140

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About this work
The Helix Nebula, NGC 7293

NGC 7293 lies about 650 light-years away in the constellation Aquarius, which makes it one of the nearest planetary nebulae to Earth. This picture is a composite. Nine ultra-sharp frames from the Advanced Camera for Surveys aboard the Hubble Space Telescope were blended with a wide-field exposure from the Mosaic Camera on the WIYN 0.9-metre telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory.

Look into the blue and the ring is not smooth. Comet-shaped knots stand out against it, each trailing a tail that points away from the centre, and a web of filaments the astronomers call bicycle spokes runs through the gas. NOAO and the Space Telescope Science Institute released the picture on 9 May 2003, for Astronomy Day.

NASA, NOAO, ESA, the Hubble Helix Nebula Team, M. Meixner (STScI), and T.A. Rector (University of Alaska Anchorage/NSF NOIRLab). Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). Source record.

Materials

Metal
The edge of a Madtag aluminium print, a thin bright line, floating clear of a dark wall.

Nothing between you and the picture.

  • The surface for work that wants light.
  • Colour at full strength; blacks hold their depth.
  • Sealed under gloss: no frame, no glazing.
  • 3 mm aluminium composite, floats clear of the wall.
Arrives flat, hanging system included
Paper
A Madtag print on a sheet of matte fine art paper, curling at one corner to show its thickness.

Hahnemühle, not poster paper.

  • When you want the best.
  • Unframed, it is Hahnemühle: photographs on Photo Rag 308, 100% cotton.
  • Painterly work on German Etching 310, mould-made and textured.
  • Over 300 gsm, printed as a pigment giclée.
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Framed
The corner of a Madtag print in a black wood frame, the sheet flush against the moulding behind acrylic, no mount board.

For the wall you want finished.

  • Framed and finished; no trip to a framer.
  • A different print: 200 gsm coated silk, made as one piece.
  • Black, white or natural wood moulding.
  • Acrylic glazing, no mount board: the sheet fills the frame.
Arrives flat in its frame
Canvas
A Madtag print on stretched canvas with a solid black wrapped edge.

Nothing lost around the corner.

  • Occupies the room rather than hanging flat.
  • Stretched over a 40 mm deep FSC wood frame.
  • No glazing; the weave itself takes the light.
  • The picture stops at the face; edges solid black, always.
Arrives stretched and ready to hang
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