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  2. List of largest nebulae - Wikipedia

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    emission line nebula The size is likely larger. The paper only describes the maximal distance to the nucleus and not the entire size. nebula around the Teacup galaxy: 363,000 ly (111,000 pc) [20] ionized nebula part of the circumgalactic medium around the Teacup galaxy, illuminated by the AGN: Lyman-alpha blob 1: 300,000 ly (92,000 pc) [21] LαB

  3. Nebula - Wikipedia

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    Most nebulae are of vast size; some are hundreds of light-years in diameter. A nebula that is visible to the human eye from Earth would appear larger, but no brighter, from close by. [ 6 ] The Orion Nebula , the brightest nebula in the sky and occupying an area twice the angular diameter of the full Moon , can be viewed with the naked eye but ...

  4. List of largest cosmic structures - Wikipedia

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    Big Ring (2024) 1,300,000,000 Made up of galaxy clusters. (Theoretical limit) 1,200,000,000 Structures larger than this size are incompatible with the cosmological principle according to all estimates. However, whether the existence of these structures itself constitutes a refutation of the cosmological principle is still unclear.

  5. Rosette Nebula - Wikipedia

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    The Rosette Nebula (also known as Caldwell 49) is an H II region located near one end of a giant molecular cloud in the Monoceros region of the Milky Way Galaxy. The open cluster NGC 2244 (Caldwell 50) is closely associated with the nebulosity, the stars of the cluster having been formed from the nebula's matter.

  6. NGC 281 - Wikipedia

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    IC 11, Sh2-184, [3] Sharpless 184, [1] LBN 616, LBN 123.17-06.28, Pacman Nebula See also: Lists of nebulae NGC 281 , IC 11 or Sh2-184 is a bright emission nebula and part of an H II region in the northern constellation of Cassiopeia and is part of the Milky Way 's Perseus Spiral Arm .

  7. Dark nebula - Wikipedia

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    The closest and largest dark nebulae are visible to the naked eye, since they are the least obscured by stars in between Earth and the nebula, and because they have the largest angular size, appearing as dark patches against the brighter background of the Milky Way like the Coalsack Nebula and the Great Rift.

  8. Bok globule - Wikipedia

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    In astronomy, Bok globules are isolated and relatively small dark nebulae containing dense cosmic dust and gas from which star formation may take place. Bok globules are found within H II regions, and typically have a mass of about two [1] to 50 solar masses contained within a region about a light year or so across (about 4.5 × 10 47 m 3). [2]

  9. Homunculus Nebula - Wikipedia

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    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 .