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NGC 6302 · Bug Nebula

NGC 6302 · Planetary nebula · Scorpius

Bug Nebula

Also known as C 69 · ESO 392-005 · Butterfly Nebula

Caldwell 69
Sharpless 6

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Type: Planetary nebula
Constellation: Scorpius
Position (J2000): 17h 13m 45s · −37° 06′ 11″
Discovered: by Edward Emerson Barnard in 1880

Pictures: 0
Magnitude: 9.6; visual
Size: 0.7′
Distance: ~2,400 ly
Best months: May–Jul

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

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