IC 4628 · Nebula · Scorpius

Prawn Nebula

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Type

Nebula

Constellation

Scorpius

Position (J2000)

16h 56m 58s · −40° 27′ 04″

Discovered

by Edward Emerson Barnard

Pictures

1

Size

89.1′ × 58.9′

Distance

~6,500 ly

Best months

May–Jul

Low from the north

Catalogue data from OpenNGC by Mattia Verga, CC BY-SA 4.0. Distances, discoverers and common names from Wikidata, CC0.