NGC 2467 (sometimes referred as the “Skull and Crossbones”) is - TopicsExpress



          

NGC 2467 (sometimes referred as the “Skull and Crossbones”) is an emission nebula with an age of a few million years at most, located some 13,000 – 17,000 light-years away from Earth in the southern constellation of Puppis (the Stern). It is moving away from us at 55.75 kms per second. It is an extremely active stellar nursery, where new stars are born continuously from large clouds of dust and gas. This star forming (HII) region, looking like a cosmic ghost, contains the open star clusters Haffner 18 and Haffner 19, as well as vast areas of ionized gas
Posted on: Mon, 19 Jan 2015 11:19:14 +0000

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