NGC 2170 Angel Nebula, jprejean

NGC 2170 Angel Nebula

Acquisition type: Electronically-Assisted Astronomy (EAA, e.g. based on a live video feed)
NGC 2170 Angel Nebula, jprejean

NGC 2170 Angel Nebula

Acquisition type: Electronically-Assisted Astronomy (EAA, e.g. based on a live video feed)

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Description

NGC 2170 is a dusty reflection nebula and stellar nursery that formed about 6 to 10 million years ago, located at the edge of the elliptically shaped, giant star-forming molecular cloud Monoceros R2 (Mon R2), some 2,700 light-years away in the constellation of Monoceros.

Processed from FITS subframes from Telescope Live.

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NGC 2170 Angel Nebula, jprejean