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The Engraved Hourglass Nebula (also known as MyCn 18 [2]) is a young planetary nebula in the southern constellation Musca. It was discovered by Annie Jump Cannon and Margaret W. Mayall during their work on an extended Henry Draper Catalogue (the catalogue was built between 1918 and 1924). At the time, it was designated simply as a small faint ...
Located 2.4° east of Eta Muscae is the magnitude-12.9 Engraved Hourglass Nebula (MyCn 18), [61] which lies about 8000 light-years distant from Earth. [62] To Eta's west lies IC 4191 , a compact bluish planetary nebula of magnitude 10.6, [ 63 ] thought to lie around 10,750 light-years away from Earth. [ 64 ]
Lists of astronomical objects; Lists of planets; References ... Engraved Hourglass Nebula: MyCn 18: 1996 8.0 (approx.) 13.0 Musca: NGC 3918: Blue Planetary 1834 4.9
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It spins at a rate of 30 times per second, spewing energy beams and taking on a decidedly pulsating appearance.
This list may not reflect recent changes. ... Engraved Hourglass Nebula; Eskimo Nebula; F. Fast Low-Ionization Emission Region; Fleming 1; H. Helix Nebula; Hen 2-47;
Hourglass shape or hourglass figure, the one that resembles an hourglass; nearly symmetric shape wide at its ends and narrow in the middle; some flat shapes may be alternatively compared to the figure eight or hourglass Dog bone shape, an hourglass with rounded ends [4] Hourglass corset; Ntama; Engraved Hourglass Nebula; Inverted bell; Kite
See also: Open cluster, List of open clusters NGC 4463 is an open cluster in the constellation Musca . The young planetary nebula He 2-86 is believed to be a member of the cluster.