Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Cygnus (Cyg)  ·  Contains:  PK080-10.1
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MWP1 Acient Planetary Nebula, Dave Erickson
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MWP1 Acient Planetary Nebula

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MWP1 Acient Planetary Nebula, Dave Erickson
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MWP1 Acient Planetary Nebula

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MWP1, "PK080-10.1", is a very usually shaped, unusually large, and unusually old, planetary nebulae. The star responsible for this amazing object is also one of the hottest stars known, so hot it is producing large amounts of X-rays. MWP1 lies some 4,500 light-years distant. Being one of the largest planetary nebula it spans about 15 light-years in width. The nebula has an age of 150 thousand years.

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