Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Gemini (Gem)  ·  Contains:  10 Gem  ·  11 Gem  ·  12 Gem  ·  13 mu. Gem  ·  7 eta Gem  ·  9 Gem  ·  IC 443  ·  IC 444  ·  Part of the constellation Gemini (Gem)  ·  Sh2-248  ·  Sh2-249  ·  Tejat Posterior  ·  Tejat Prior  ·  The star Propus (ηGem)  ·  The star μGem
Getting plate-solving status, please wait...
Jellyfish Nebula and IC444 -  Ha, Thomas Richter
Powered byPixInsight

Jellyfish Nebula and IC444 - Ha

Getting plate-solving status, please wait...
Jellyfish Nebula and IC444 -  Ha, Thomas Richter
Powered byPixInsight

Jellyfish Nebula and IC444 - Ha

Equipment

Loading...

Acquisition details

Loading...

Description

Object description (wikipedia.org):

IC 443 (also known as the Jellyfish Nebula and Sharpless 248 (Sh2-248)) is a Galactic supernova remnant (SNR) in the constellation Gemini. On the plan of the sky, it is located near the star Eta Geminorum. Its distance is roughly 5,000 light years from Earth.

IC 443 may be the remains of a supernova that occurred 3,000 - 30,000 years ago. The same supernova event likely created the neutron star CXOU J061705.3+222127, the collapsed remnant of the stellar core. IC 443 is one of the best-studied cases of supernova remnants interacting with surrounding molecular clouds.

Comments

Revisions

  • Jellyfish Nebula and IC444 -  Ha, Thomas Richter
    Original
  • Final
    Jellyfish Nebula and IC444 -  Ha, Thomas Richter
    B

Sky plot

Sky plot

Histogram

Jellyfish Nebula and IC444 -  Ha, Thomas Richter

In these public groups

Astrofreunde-Franken