Hubble's Variable Nebula (NGC 2261)

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Nov 2000

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2000eaa..booke5310.&link_type=abstract

"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 5310. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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Interstellar Medium, Interstellar Medium Objects

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A reflection nebula in the constellation Monoceros, position RA 06 h
39.2 m, dec. +08° 44'. It is small (2' by 1') but of quite high
surface brightness. The nebula's average magnitude is 10, but, as Edwin
Hubble discovered in 1916, it varies in brightness, mirroring the
variability of its illuminating star, R Monocerotis....

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