IC 349, also known as Barnard's Merope Nebula, is a nebula which lies 3500 AUs (0.06 light years) from the star Merope in the Pleiades cluster. It was...
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star Merope, which is embedded in the nebula. It contains a bright knot, IC 349, about half an arcminute wide near Merope, which was discovered by Edward...
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Its light has taken 349.5 million years to travel to Earth. IC 1011's calculated age is approximately 12.95 billion years. The IC designation comes from...
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Hubble Space Telescope image of reflection nebulosity near Merope (IC 349)...
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IC 4665 (Collinder 349 / Melotte 179) is an open cluster in the constellation Ophiuchus. It was discovered by Philippe Loys de Chéseaux in 1745. The cluster...
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14 vdB 15 vdB 16 IC 349, small reflection nebula in the Pleiades IC 2177 IC 2631, reflection nebula in Chamaeleon IC 4604 IC 4605 IC 5146 Sharpless 2-1...
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This is a partial list of IC objects, which are astronomical objects included in the Index Catalogue of Nebulae and Clusters of Stars. This two volume...
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Type Ib and Type Ic supernovae are categories of supernovae that are caused by the stellar core collapse of massive stars. These stars have shed or been...
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brightest around Merope and is listed in the Index Catalogue as number IC 349. 23 Tauri is the star's Flamsteed designation. The name Merope originates...
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cloud complex in Orion, named after E. E. Barnard. Barnard's Merope Nebula (IC 349) is a nebula located in the Pleiades cluster, named after E. E. Barnard...
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