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Cygnus Cocoon
The Cygnus Cocoon is an extended region of high-energy gamma-ray emission surrounding the Cygnus X star-forming region, about 4,500 light-years away, discovered by NASA's Fermi telescope in 2011.
Galactic chimney
A galactic chimney is a collimated channel of hot, overpressured gas created when a supernova-driven superbubble bursts out of a galaxy's disk into its halo, carrying mass and energy upward.
Heliosheath
The heliosheath is the outer region of the heliosphere where the solar wind slows to subsonic speed against the interstellar medium, first explored by Voyager 1 in 2004.
Per-Tau Shell
The Per-Tau Shell is a near-spherical cavity in the local interstellar medium, about 500 light-years wide, surrounding and connecting the Perseus and Taurus molecular clouds, revealed by 3D dust mapping in 2021.
Stellar-wind bubble
A stellar-wind bubble, also called a wind-blown bubble, is a hot, low-density cavity carved in interstellar gas by a star's fast outflow, forming around massive stars and clusters as superbubbles.
Superbubble
A superbubble, also called a supershell, is a large cavity of hot, tenuous gas in the interstellar medium, blown by the combined stellar winds and supernovae of massive stars in a cluster.