Crystal Ball Nebula is a photograph by Bob Franke which was uploaded on May 6th, 2013.
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Crystal Ball Nebula
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Bob Franke
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North is to the top.
William Herschel discovered NGC 1514 and 1790. The planetary nebula, also known as the Crystal Ball Nebula, is in the constellation Taurus at a distance of 800 light-years. It thought that the nebula envelops a tightly orbiting double star with a period of about 10 days. Gas is presumably expanding away from the larger star of the pair. The image also shows a large expanse of interstellar cirrus.
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May 6th, 2013
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