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Rosette Nebula in Monoceros

by

C.Picking/Novapix

Reference

a-neb22-37010

Date

2007-02-20

The Rosette Nebula is a large, circular H II region located near one end of a giant molecular cloud inthe constellation Monoceros, approximately 5,500 light years from Earth.Within the nebula, the blue open cluster NGC 2244 aged less than 1 million years.