Carina Nebula
A huge, bright cloud of glowing gas in the southern Milky Way, home of the restless giant star Eta Carinae.
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What it is
- Kind of object
- Cloud of glowing gas (nebula)
- Distance
- 8,500 light years
- Brightness
- Magnitude 1.0, easy to see with the eye
- Size in the sky
- About 4 times the width of the full Moon
- Constellation
- Carina
- Catalogue
- NGC 3372
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