List of largest known nebulae information

Below is a list of the largest known nebulae so far discovered, ordered by actual diameter. This list is prone to change because of inconsistencies between...

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for 'cloud, fog'; pl.: nebulae, nebulæ, or nebulas) is a distinct luminescent part of interstellar medium, which can consist of ionized, neutral, or molecular...

emission or reflection nebulae. The extinction of the light is caused by interstellar dust grains in the coldest, densest parts of molecular clouds. Clusters...

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magnitude. He assigned these to Class IV of his catalogue of "nebulae", eventually listing 78 "planetary nebulae", most of which are in fact galaxies. Herschel...

Burnham's measures of proper motion stars, 1913 catalogue. B — Willem H. van den Bos (double stars) B — E. E. Barnard's List of Dark Nebulae B2 — Bologna Sky...

subsequently included in Charles Messier's catalogue of non-cometary fuzzy objects. Described by Messier as nebulae without stars, their true nature was not recognized...

estimated 100 billion in all of the observable universe. The discovery of the nature of galaxies as distinct from other nebulae (interstellar clouds) was...

circular orbit with its 25 solar mass blue giant companion VFTS 243. List of largest nebulae NGC 604 "NAME 30 Dor Nebula". SIMBAD. Centre de données astronomiques...

a list of stars, neutron stars, white dwarfs and brown dwarfs which are the least voluminous known (the smallest stars by volume). This is a list of small...

are some of the largest nebulae known to exist, with some identified LABs in the 2000s reaching sizes of at least hundreds of thousands of light-years...

typical galaxy is in the form of dark matter, with only a few percent of that mass visible in the form of stars and nebulae. Supermassive black holes are...

shocks. (Davis et al. 2005) Bipolar nebula Bipolar outflow List of protoplanetary nebulae Planetary nebula ^ The late asymptotic giant branch begins at...

constellation of Orion,[b] and is known as the middle "star" in the "sword" of Orion. It is one of the brightest nebulae and is visible to the naked eye...

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. Swiss astronomer Jean-Philippe de Cheseaux included Omega Centauri in his 1746 list of 21 nebulae, as did French...

objects previously thought to be clouds of dust and gas and classified as "nebulae" were actually galaxies beyond the Milky Way. He used the strong direct...

catalogue "of nebulae and star clusters". It was one of the first spiral galaxies to be discovered, and was listed as one of fourteen spiral nebulae by Lord...

contains dark nebulae, emission nebulae, reflection nebulae, and H II regions. The presence of ripples on the surface of Orion's molecular clouds was discovered...

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consist of multiple bodies or even other objects with substructures. Examples of astronomical objects include planetary systems, star clusters, nebulae, and...

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column 115: "The most popularly known nebulæ observed this night were the ring nebulæ in the Canes Venatici, or the 51st of Messier's catalogue, which was...

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to re-visit the nebulae in the catalogues of Charles Messier and John Herschel. These catalogues list star clusters as well as nebulae, and the question...

This list covers all known stars, brown dwarfs, and sub-brown dwarfs within 20 light-years (6.13 parsecs) of the Sun. So far, 131 such objects have been...