M1-92
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Vinony files it under Cygnus (constellation) and Protoplanetary nebulae.
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Astronomical data · SIMBAD
- Object type
- pA*
- Spectral type
- B0.5IV[e]
- Distance
- 5,189 light-years
- Redshift
- z = -0.00002363787365733394
- Coordinates
- RA 294.0789° · Dec 29.5472°
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Wikidata facts
- Image
- Minkowski 92.jpg
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- declination component of proper motion
- -4.1
- right ascension
- 294.07000
- declination
- 29.53778
- apparent magnitude
- 6.209
- spectral class
- B0.5IV[e]
- catalog code
- [TVH89] 410
- right ascension component of proper motion
- -11.2
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Encyclopedic overview
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M1-92 (Minkowski 92), also known as Minkowski’s Footprint or the Footprint Nebula, is a bipolar protoplanetary nebula in the constellation of Cygnus. It is a type of reflection nebula, visible only by light reflected from the central star. The central star is not yet a white dwarf but is quickly becoming one. In a few thousand years the star will be hot enough to emit vast quantities of ultraviolet radiation that will ionize the nebula surrounding it, making it a fully fledged planetary nebula.
M1-92 was discovered by Rudolph Minkowski in 1946. It was imaged by the Very Large Array (VLA) in 1983 and by Hubble Space Telescope in 1996. The object is 8,000 light-years away from Earth, and has a radial velocity of -7.086 kilometers (-4.4 miles) a second. Its axis is tilted 35 degrees from our line of sight. It is 11 by 6 arcseconds in angular size. It is 0.42 light-years in diameter and shines at 10,000 solar luminosities.
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