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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 4889 - Wikipedia

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    NGC 4889 is probably the largest and the most massive galaxy out to the radius of 100 Mpc (326 million light years) of the Milky Way. The galaxy has an effective radius which extends at 2.9 arcminutes of the sky, translating to a diameter of 239,000 light years, about the size of the Andromeda Galaxy .

  4. North America Nebula - Wikipedia

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    In his study of nebulae on the Palomar Sky Survey plates in 1959, American astronomer Stewart Sharpless realised that the North America Nebula is part of the same interstellar cloud of ionized hydrogen (H II region) as the Pelican Nebula, separated by a dark band of dust, and listed the two nebulae together in his second list of 313 bright ...

  5. NGC 604 - Wikipedia

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    NGC 604 is an H II region inside the Triangulum Galaxy.It was discovered by William Herschel on September 11, 1784. It is among the largest H II regions in the Local Group of galaxies; at the galaxy's estimated distance of 2.7 million light-years, its longest diameter is roughly 1,520 light years (~460 parsecs), over 40 times the size of the visible portion of the Orion Nebula.

  6. Lists of nebulae - Wikipedia

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    About Wikipedia; Contact us; Contribute Help; Learn to edit; Community portal; Recent changes; ... The following articles contain lists of nebulae: List of dark nebulae;

  7. List of planetary nebulae - Wikipedia

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    This page was last edited on 29 November 2024, at 02:16 (UTC).; Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; additional terms may apply.

  8. N119 - Wikipedia

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    N119 (formally known as LHA 120-N 119) is a spiral-shaped H II region in the Large Magellanic Cloud.Its dimensions are large, at 131 x 175 pc (430 × 570 ly). [2] It contains several luminous stars including S Doradus, LH41-1042, and LMC195-1.

  9. NGC 595 - Wikipedia

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    See also: Lists of nebulae NGC 595 is a massive H II region in the Triangulum Galaxy . It was discovered by Heinrich Ludwig d'Arrest on October 1, 1864 and is one of the biggest H II regions in the Local Group .