Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Taurus (Tau)
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The Spaghetti Nebula, SH2-240, Girish Joshi
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The Spaghetti Nebula, SH2-240

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The Spaghetti Nebula, SH2-240

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The Spaghetti Nebula, cataloged as Sharpless 240 (Sh2-240) or Simies 147 is a supernova remnant in our galaxy Milyway. Bordering the constellation of Auriga and Taurus, its a huge deep space object almost 3deg at 3000ly. Created by stellar explosion is not very old object around 40000 years old and discovered in 1952.

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The Spaghetti Nebula, SH2-240, Girish Joshi