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NGC 7662 is a planetary nebula located in the northern constellation Andromeda.It is known as the Blue Snowball Nebula, Snowball Nebula, and Caldwell 22.This nebula was discovered October 6, 1784 by the German-born English astronomer William Herschel.
Blue Snowball Nebula: NGC 7662: 1784 5.9 8.6 Andromeda: NGC 6803 1882 12.5 11.1 Aquila: Abell 78: ... Distance [a] [b] Apparent magnitude (visual) [a] Constellation [a]
Lying approximately 3 degrees southwest of Iota Andromedae at a distance of about 4,000 light-years from Earth, the "Blue Snowball Nebula" [11] is a popular target for amateur astronomers. [65] It earned its popular name because it appears as a faint, round, blue-green object in a telescope, with an overall magnitude of 9.2.
Blue Snowball: Planetary Nebula: 3.2 Andromeda: 9 C23 NGC 891: Silver Sliver Galaxy: Spiral Galaxy: 31,000 Andromeda: 10 C24 NGC 1275: Perseus A: Supergiant Elliptical Galaxy: 230,000 Perseus: 11.6 C25 NGC 2419 Globular Cluster: 275 Lynx: 10.4 C26 NGC 4244 Spiral Galaxy: 10,000 Canes Venatici: 10.2 C27 NGC 6888: Crescent Nebula: Nebula: 4.7 ...
At a distance of 163,000 light-years, it is the third closest galaxy to the Milky Way. ... NGC 7662 (also known as the Blue Snowball Nebula, Snowball Nebula, ...
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Distance Constellation Apparent magnitude; C2 NGC 40: Bow-Tie Nebula: ... Blue Snowball: Planetary Nebula: 3.2 Andromeda: 9 – NGC 7686 Open Cluster – Andromeda:
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