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SH2-308: The Dolphin Head Nebula

By |2024-06-07T09:09:07-04:00June 7th, 2024|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day Blown by fast winds from a hot, massive star, this cosmic bubble is huge. Cataloged as Sharpless 2-308 it lies some 5,000 light-years away toward the well-trained constellation Canis Major and covers slightly more of the sky than a Full Moon. That corresponds to a diameter of 60 light-years at [...]

GK Per: Nova and Planetary Nebula

By |2024-04-30T09:09:11-04:00April 30th, 2024|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day The star system GK Per is known to be associated with only two of the three nebulas pictured. At 1500 light years distant, Nova Persei 1901 (GK Persei) was the second closest nova yet recorded. At the very center is a white dwarf star, the surviving core of a former [...]

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