Nebula 029 / 100
Prawn Nebula
IC4628
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At a glance
- Type
- Emission nebula (H II region)
- Constellation
- Sco
- Right ascension
- 16h 56m 58.3s
- Declination
- −40° 27′
- Angular size
- 89.1x58.9′
- Catalogue
- IC4628
Located in Scorpius.
The outline on your card
A large, faint emission region crowded with young stars resembles the antennae of a prawn.
- Outline class
- Patchy
- Axis ratio
- 0.66 : 1
- Central source
- Embedded cluster
- Surface brightness
- Low
- Recorded structure
- Embedded stars · Filaments
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