Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Lynx (Lyn)  ·  Contains:  PK164+31.1
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Headphone Nebula (PK 164+31.1), Massimo Di Fusco
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Headphone Nebula (PK 164+31.1)

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Headphone Nebula (PK 164+31.1), Massimo Di Fusco
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Headphone Nebula (PK 164+31.1)

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Jones-Emberson 1 (also known as PK 164 + 31.1 or Headphone Nebula) is a 14th magnitude planetary nebula located in the northern part of the Lynx constellation at a distance of 1600 light years from Earth. It was discovered in 1939 by Rebecca B. Jones and Richard Emberson on a photographic plate acquired with the 40 cm diameter refracting telescope of the Oak Ridge Observatory.
Like many other planetary nebulae, its structure and shape are due to the expansion of a shell of gas ejected from a dying star. At its center there is a white dwarf of magnitude 16.8 of blue color, whose ultraviolet radiation excites and illuminates the envelope of gas, composed mainly of hydrogen, which gives the characteristic red color, while the blue areas are due to the presence of oxygen. This nebula is believed to have a bipolar shape, with the axis of the lobes oriented almost exactly in the direction of the Earth, to the point that it appears seen from a polar angle.

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