Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Hercules (Her)
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Abell 39, Jay Sanchez
Abell 39, Jay Sanchez

Abell 39

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Abell 39, Jay Sanchez
Abell 39, Jay Sanchez

Abell 39

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Photographed over 3 evenings.

Planetary nebula Abell 39, discovered by George Abell in 1966 has a diameter of about five light-years, and the thickness of the spherical shell is about a third of a light-year. The nebula itself is roughly 7,000 light-years from Earth in the constellation Hercules.

https://noirlab.edu/public/images/noao0102a/

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