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Twin Jet Nebula

Ant Nebula

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menzel 3,mz 3,planetary nebula in norma constellation

The Ant Nebula is a bipolar planetary nebula located approximately 8,000 light-years away in the southern constellation Norma. It has an apparent magnitude of 13.8… Read More »Ant Nebula

Twin Jet Nebula – M2-9

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m2-9,minkowski's butterfly

The Twin Jet Nebula is a bipolar planetary nebula located in the constellation Ophiuchus. It is also known as Minkowski 2-9 (M2-9), Minkowski’s Butterfly or the Wings of a Butterfly Nebula. The nebula lies at a distance of 2,100 light years from Earth and has an apparent magnitude of 14.7. It was named after Rudolph Minkowski, the German-American astronomer who discovered it in 1947.
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