Deep-sky object
Dumbbell Nebula
Dumbbell Nebula is a planetary nebula somewhere between 1 148 and 1 520 light-years away, in Vulpecula, about 3 light-years across.
See it live
It is on the live 3D map, where it really is.
Key facts
- Type
- Planetary nebula
- Constellation
- Vulpecula
- Distance
- 1 148 to 1 520 light-years
- Size
- about 3.00 light-years across
- Brightness from Earth
- magnitude 7.4
- Catalogue
- M27, NGC 6853
See it from here
Too faint for the eye; a telescope, or a long photograph, shows it.
How the map draws it
Drawn as a soft glow in the manner of its kind at its measured distance, as wide as it measures; the pattern in it is illustrative and its true shape is not drawn — the kind of thing, not this exact one.