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Dolphin Nebula, Shailesh Trivedi
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Dolphin Nebula

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Dolphin Nebula

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This is the Dolphin Head Nebula also known from the Sharpless catalog as   SH2-308. It is about 5K light years away and 60 light-years across in Canis Major. The nebula is about 70,000  years young. Most of the dolphin's shape is from ionized Oxygen.

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Dolphin Nebula, Shailesh Trivedi