A Galaxy poster

 

A poster to be shown and we point to a selection of these:

Palomar 1

Crab M1

NGC 7000 

NGC 7293  Webb  

                   What is a nebula

                   helix nebula   helix nebula from earth

                   What is the closest nebula to Earth? 







                   The closest known nebula to Earth is called the Helix Nebula. 

                   It is the remnant of a dying star—possibly one like the Sun.  

                   It is approximately 700 light-years away from Earth. 

                  That means even if you could travel at the speed of light, it would still take you 700 years to get there! source

 

Example                                                         source

An image of the Veil Nebula taken by the Hubble Space Telescope 

 

 M31 Andromeda Galaxy

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