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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. NGC 6302 - Wikipedia

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    NGC 6302 (also known as the Bug Nebula, Butterfly Nebula, or Caldwell 69) is a bipolar planetary nebula in the constellation Scorpius.The structure in the nebula is among the most complex ever seen in planetary nebulae.

  4. M2-9 - Wikipedia

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    Minkowski 2-9, abbreviated M2-9 (also known as Minkowski's Butterfly, Twin Jet Nebula, the Wings of a Butterfly Nebula, or just Butterfly Nebula) is a planetary nebula that was discovered by Rudolph Minkowski in 1947. It is located about 2,100 light-years away from Earth in the direction of the constellation Ophiuchus.

  5. 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.

  6. List of Solar System objects by size - Wikipedia

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    The largest of these may have a hydrostatic-equilibrium shape, but most are irregular. Most of the trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs) listed with a radius smaller than 200 km have " assumed sizes based on a generic albedo of 0.09" since they are too far away to directly measure their sizes with existing instruments.

  7. Messier 22 - Wikipedia

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    It was an object first noted of interest using the IRAS satellite by Fred Gillett and his associates in 1986, as a pointlike light source [d] [16] and its nature was found in 1989 by Gillett et al. [17] The planetary nebula's central star is a blue star. The nebula, designated GJJC1, is likely about only 6,000 years old. [3]

  8. Cepheus (constellation) - Wikipedia

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    The nebula NGC 7538 is home to the largest-yet-discovered protostar. [27] NGC 7023 is a reflection nebula with an associated star cluster (Collinder 429); it has an overall magnitude of 7.7 and is 1,400 light-years from Earth. The nebula and cluster are located near Beta Cephei and T Cephei. [28]

  9. Owl Nebula - Wikipedia

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    The Owl Nebula (also known as Messier 97, M97 or NGC 3587) is a planetary nebula approximately 2,030 light years away in the constellation Ursa Major. [2] Estimated to be about 8,000 years old, [ 6 ] it is approximately circular in cross-section with a faint internal structure.