The Butterfly Cluster (M6 and as NGC 6405) – in the picture zoomed above – is an open cluster of stars in the southern constellation of Scorpius. Its name derives from the vague resemblance of its shape to a butterfly. Estimates of distance 1,590 light-years, giving it a spatial dimension
Is a cloud of heated and ionized gas and dust in the constellation Cygnus. It constitutes the visible portions of the Cygnus Loop a supernova remnant. The source supernova was a star 20 times more massive than the Sun, and it exploded around 21,000 years ago. The distance estimates of
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