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  2. List of largest nebulae - Wikipedia

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    The Bubble Nebula is located in the upper left of the image NGC 6188: 600 ly (180 pc) [21] Emission nebula: NGC 592: 580 ly (180 pc) [22] [23] H II region: Located in the Triangulum Galaxy: Sh2-310: 531–681 ly (163–209 pc) [24] [c] H II region: Nebula surrounding VY Canis Majoris, which is one of largest known stars. Carina Nebula: 460 ly ...

  3. North America Nebula - Wikipedia

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    In his study of nebulae on the Palomar Sky Survey plates in 1959, American astronomer Stewart Sharpless realised that the North America Nebula is part of the same interstellar cloud of ionized hydrogen (H II region) as the Pelican Nebula, separated by a dark band of dust, and listed the two nebulae together in his second list of 313 bright ...

  4. Carina Nebula - Wikipedia

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    The Cosmic Cliffs at the edge of NGC 3324, one of the first images taken by the James Webb Space Telescope. The Carina Nebula [7] or Eta Carinae Nebula [8] (catalogued as NGC 3372; also known as the Great Carina Nebula [9]) is a large, complex area of bright and dark nebulosity in the constellation Carina, located in the Carina–Sagittarius Arm of the Milky Way galaxy.

  5. NASA releases 'unprecedented' Horsehead Nebula image ... - AOL

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    This image, made by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope in 2013, shows Barnard 33, the Horsehead Nebula, in the constellation of Orion (the Hunter), in infrared light.

  6. N119 - Wikipedia

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    N119 (formally known as LHA 120-N 119) is a spiral-shaped H II region in the Large Magellanic Cloud.Its dimensions are large, at 131 x 175 pc (430 × 570 ly). [2] It contains several luminous stars including S Doradus, LH41-1042, and LMC195-1.

  7. California Nebula - Wikipedia

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    The California Nebula (Also known NGC 1499 or Sh2-220) is an emission nebula located in the constellation Perseus. Its name comes from its resemblance to the outline of the US State of California in long exposure photographs.

  8. KjPn 8 - Wikipedia

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    KjPn 8 is a bipolar planetary nebula which was discovered by M.A. Kazaryan and Eh. S. Parsamyan in 1971 [5] and independently by Luboš Kohoutek in 1972. [6]Very little was published about this nebula until 1995, when it was realized that KjPn 8 sits in the center of a very large filamentary nebula, 14 by 4 arc minutes in size.

  9. GS-NDG-9422 - Wikipedia

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