Astronomical data · SIMBAD
- Object type
- PN
- Redshift
- z = 0.00002968764515087763
- Coordinates
- RA 316.7565° · Dec 42.2362°
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Key facts
- Right ascension
- 21 07 1.7
- Declination
- +42 ° 14 ′ 11 ″
- Distance
- 3,000 ly
- Apparent dimensions v
- 16" × 12"
- Constellation
- Cygnus
- Dimensions
- 0.2 × 0.1 ly
- Notable features
- Young (600 years) and unusually massive (3–4 M ☉ )
- Designations
- Jewel Bug Nebula, Gummy Bear Nebula
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Constellation
- Cygnus
- Distance from Earth
- 3000
- Image
- NGC7027 - HST - Heic2011c.tif
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- declination
- 42.23610
- catalog code
- WEB 18987
- apparent magnitude
- 9.1
- epoch
- J2000.0
- right ascension
- 316.75730
- Commons category
- NGC 7027
- discoverer or inventor
- Édouard Stephan
- time of discovery or invention
- 1878-00-00
- site of astronomical discovery
- Marseille Observatory
- parallax
- 9.6
- radial velocity
- 8.9
- right ascension component of proper motion
- 6
- declination component of proper motion
- -16
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 7027, also known as the Jewel Bug Nebula or the Magic Carpet Nebula, is a very young and dense planetary nebula located around 3,000 light-years (920 parsecs) from Earth in the constellation Cygnus. Discovered in 1878 by Édouard Stephan using the 800 mm (31 in) reflector at Marseille Observatory, it is one of the smallest planetary nebulae and by far the most extensively studied.
Observation
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 7027” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.