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IC 2118 (also known as Witch Head Nebula due to its shape) is an extremely faint reflection nebula believed to be an ancient supernova remnant or gas cloud illuminated by nearby supergiant star Rigel in the constellation of Orion. The nebula lies in the Eridanus Constellation, [1] about 900 light-years from Earth. The nature of the dust ...
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The nebula measures around two light years long from end to end, and contains a central white dwarf with an apparent magnitude of 11. The inner layers of the nebula were formed some 1,500 years ago. [4] The two ends of the nebula are marked by FLIERs, lobes of fast moving gas often tinted red in false-color pictures. [5]
NGC 7027 is unusually small, measuring only 0.2 by 0.1 light-years, whereas the typical size for a planetary nebula is 1 light-year. [4] It is fairly young, at about 600 years old. [ 12 ] It has a very complex shape, consisting of an elliptical region of ionized gas [ 13 ] and an equatorial belt [ 14 ] within a massive neutral cloud. [ 15 ]
NGC 6751, also known as the Glowing Eye Nebula, [2] is a planetary nebula in the constellation Aquila. It is estimated to be about 6,500 light-years (2.0 kilo parsecs ) away. [ 2 ]
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Messier 81 (also known as NGC 3031 or Bode's Galaxy) is a grand design spiral galaxy about 12 million light-years away in the constellation Ursa Major.It has a D 25 isophotal diameter of 29.44 kiloparsecs (96,000 light-years).