Nebula 013 / 100
Flame Nebula
NGC2024
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At a glance
- Type
- Emission nebula (H II region)
- Constellation
- Ori
- Right ascension
- 5h 41m 42.5s
- Declination
- −1° 51′
- Angular size
- 30x30′
- Catalogue
- NGC2024
Located in Orion.
The outline on your card
A bright emission region cut by dark dust lanes into a flaming, tank-track pattern.
- Outline class
- Patchy
- Axis ratio
- 1.00 : 1
- Central source
- Embedded cluster
- Surface brightness
- Medium
- Recorded structure
- Dark lane · Bright rim · Embedded stars · Rifts
The card front carries no text by design: the glyph is drawn from this object's own silhouette, so the outline is the only clue you get until you scan it.
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