enow.com Web Search

Search results

1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network

2. NGC 262 - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NGC_262

   NGC 262 (also known as Markarian 348) is the largest known spiral galaxy, [5] located in the constellation Andromeda. [1] It is a Seyfert 2 spiral galaxy located 287 million light years away. [2] It was discovered on 17 September 1885 by Lewis A. Swift. [4] According to A.M. Garcia, NGC 262 is a member of the NGC 315 Group (also known as LGG 14).

3. List of largest nebulae - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_nebulae

   Nebula Maximum dimension (in light-years/parsecs) Type Notes NGC 262 Halo Cloud 1,300,000 ly (400,000 pc) [1] H I region: Spiral nebula surrounding NGC 262, which is one of the largest known galaxies. Leo Ring: 650,000 ly (200,000 pc) [2] HVC: A large ring of cold gas that formed from a collision of two galaxies. [3] Magellanic Stream: 600,000 ...

4. List of planetary nebulae - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_planetary_nebulae

   Box Nebula: NGC 6309: 1876 6.5 11.5 Ophiuchus: NGC 6326: 1826 11 12.2 Ara: NGC 6563: 1826 5.37 ± 0.06 11 Sagittarius: NGC 6629 1784 13.4 11.3 Sagittarius: Phantom Streak Nebula: NGC 6741: 1882 7 11 Aquila: Little Gem Nebula: NGC 6818: 1787 6 9.3 Sagittarius: Abell 36: 1955 0.78 12.2 ± 2.1 Virgo: Abell 70: 1966 7.8–16 [4] Aquila: Box Nebula ...

5. NGC 2626 - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NGC_2626

   NGC 2626 is a reflection nebula, emission nebula, and absorption nebula in the constellation Vela. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] It is mostly illuminated by B1 star CD-40 4432 and ionized by the O8 quadruple star system HD 73882 , together with other stars.

6. Sharpless catalog - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharpless_catalog

   Sharpless 101, Cygnus Star Cloud 105: Crescent Nebula: Sh2 105, NGC 6888, Sharpless 105, Caldwell 27 106: Celestial Snow Angel: Sh2-106, Celestial Snow Angel 117: North America Nebula: NGC 7000, Caldwell 20 125: Cocoon Nebula: IC 5146, Caldwell 19 140: Sh2-140: Sh2-140 155: Cave Nebula: Sh2-155, Caldwell 9 158: NGC 7538: Sh2-158, NGC 7538 162 ...

7. Cone Nebula - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cone_Nebula

   The cone's shape comes from a dark absorption nebula consisting of cold molecular hydrogen and dust in front of a faint emission nebula containing hydrogen ionized by S Monocerotis, the brightest star of NGC 2264. The faint nebula is approximately seven light-years long (with an apparent length of 10 arcminutes), and is 2,700 light-years from ...