Gum Nebula

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Nov 2000

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2000eaa..booke5169.&link_type=abstract

"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 5169. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

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Interstellar Medium, Interstellar Medium Objects

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A very large, near-circular emission nebula, approximately 36° in diameter, in the constellations Puppis and Vela. The largest known nebula in the sky, it was discovered by the Australian astronomer C S Gum (1924-60), and is believed to be an ancient supernova remnant, with an age exceeding a million years. It is a convoluted mass of nebular wisps and loops, many of them very faint, but there are...

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