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Below is a list of the largest known nebulae so far discovered, ordered by actual diameter. This list is prone to change because of inconsistencies between studies, the great distances of nebulae from our stellar neighborhood, and the constant refinement of technology and engineering .
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.
The Tarantula Nebula has an apparent magnitude of 8. Considering its distance of about 49 kpc [2] (160,000 light-years), this is an extremely luminous non-stellar object. Its luminosity is so great that if it were as close to Earth as the Orion Nebula, the Tarantula Nebula would cast visible shadows. [13]
The Orion Nebula (also known as Messier 42, M42, or NGC 1976) ... The largest of these stars have short life spans and will evolve to become supernovae.
Box Nebula NGC 6445: 1786 4.5 11.2 Sagittarius: Eye of Sauron Nebula M 1-42: 10 14 Sagittarius
The Homunculus Nebula is a bipolar emission and reflection nebula surrounding the massive star system Eta Carinae, about 7,500 light-years (2,300 parsecs) from Earth. The nebula is embedded within the much larger Carina Nebula , a large star-forming H II region .
Tarantula Nebula: 226 165,000 WN6 13.37 45,000 spectroscopy: SIMBAD [5] [6] R136a1: Tarantula Nebula: 196 +34 ... List of largest cosmic structures; List of largest ...
Nebula-like object Himiko: z = 6.595 Possibly one of the largest objects in the early universe. [94] [95] Magnetic field: 9io9: z = 2.554 (11.1 Gly) Observations from ALMA has shown that the lensed galaxy 9io9 contains a magnetic field. Planet: SWEEPS-11 / SWEEPS-04 (27,710 ly) [96]