Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Auriga (Aur)  ·  Contains:  LBN 745  ·  Sh2-217
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SH2-217, Pedro Sánchez
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SH2-217

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This is an extremely distant nebulous region, some estimates putting it at almost 17,000 light-years, thus placing it in the outermost and most remote part of the Perseus arm or the immediate outer arm. The cloud is formed by a vast complex of neutral hydrogen in the form of an envelope and by a region of ionized gas, constituting the brightest part, which receives radiation from the star LSV+47 24, a blue star of spectral class O 9.5V . The mass of the cloud is about 4100 solar masses.

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SH2-217, Pedro Sánchez

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