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  2. NGC 7027 - Wikipedia

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    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 ]

  3. List of planetary nebulae - Wikipedia

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    Box Nebula NGC 6445: 1786 4.5 11.2 Sagittarius: Eye of Sauron Nebula M 1-42: 10 14 Sagittarius

  4. Nebula - Wikipedia

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    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 was missed by early astronomers. [7]

  5. NGC 6818 - Wikipedia

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    The Little Gem Nebula or NGC 6818 is a planetary nebula located in the constellation of Sagittarius. It has magnitude 10 and oval diameter of 15 to 22 arcseconds with a 15th magnitude central star. It has magnitude 10 and oval diameter of 15 to 22 arcseconds with a 15th magnitude central star.

  6. NGC 6445 - Wikipedia

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    NGC 6445, also known as the Little Gem Nebula or Box Nebula, is a planetary nebula in the constellation Sagittarius. It was discovered by William Herschel on May 28, 1786. [ 6 ] The distance of NGC 6445 is estimated to be slightly more than 1,000 parsecs based on the parallax measured by Gaia , which was measured at 0.9740 ± 0.3151 mas.

  7. List of Solar System objects by size - Wikipedia

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    For the small outer irregular moons of Uranus, such as Sycorax, which were not discovered by the Voyager 2 flyby, even different NASA web pages, such as the National Space Science Data Center [6] and JPL Solar System Dynamics, [5] give somewhat contradictory size and albedo estimates depending on which research paper is being cited.

  8. Little Dumbbell Nebula - Wikipedia

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    The Little Dumbbell Nebula, also known as Messier 76, NGC 650/651, the Barbell Nebula, or the Cork Nebula, [1] is a planetary nebula in the northern constellation of Perseus. It was discovered by Pierre Méchain in 1780 and included in Charles Messier 's catalog of comet -like objects as number 76.

  9. NGC 7380 - Wikipedia

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    The nebula is known as S 142 in the 1959 Sharpless catalog (Sh2-142). [2] It is extremely difficult to observe visually, usually requiring very dark skies and an O-III filter. The NGC 7380 complex is located at a distance of approximately 8.5 kilolight-years from the Sun , in the Perseus Arm of the Milky Way .