Dumbbell Nebula
A shell of gas puffed out by a dying star, one of the brightest of its kind and visible in binoculars.
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What it is
- Kind of object
- Planetary nebula
- Distance
- 1,334 light years
- Brightness
- Magnitude 7.4, a sight for binoculars
- Size in the sky
- About a fifth of the width of the full Moon
- Constellation
- Vulpecula
- Catalogue
- M 27, NGC 6853
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