GCRV 950 (Little Dumbbell Nebula) [#36011151]
This system is located at:
-1560.71875
/ -382.71875
/ -1351.9375
Galactic coordinates:
R: 2,100.012 / l: 130.900 / b: -10.501
Equatorial coordinates:
Right ascension: 1h 42m 7.442s /
Declination: 51° 35'6.950''
Reserve level: Pristine
Habitable zone:
Metal-rich body (43 to 209,144 ls), Earth-like world (3,292,351 to 4,937,920 ls), Water world (2,699,722 to 10,455,543 ls), Ammonia world (6,830,951 to 18,587,631 ls), Terraformable (2,564,334 to 5,116,654 ls)
Estimated value: 433,852 cr
This system was visited for the first time on EDSM by Sunny v. Isegrim.
It was named by the Galactic Mapping Project with the name of: Little Dumbbell Nebula
285 ships passed through GCRV 950 space, including 2 ships in the last 7 days.
0 ship passed through GCRV 950 space in the last 24 hours.
The Little Dumbbell Nebula (Messier 76, NGC 650/651, the Barbell Nebula, or the Cork Nebula) is a planetary nebula in the constellation Perseus. It was discovered by Pierre Méchain in 1780 and included in Charles Messier's catalog of comet-like objects as number 76. It was first recognized as a planetary nebula in 1918 by the astronomer Heber Doust Curtis.
The Little Dumbbell Nebula derives its common name from its resemblance to the Dumbbell Nebula (M27) in Vulpecula. It was originally thought to consist of two separate emission nebulae and was thus given two catalog numbers in the NGC 650 and 651. William Herschel in 1787 noticed that the nebula consisted of two brighter regions slightly separated by a fainter middle, hence the NGC assignment of two numbers to the object. Some consider this object to be one of the faintest and hardest to see objects in Messier's list.
The nebula appears to be the result of stellar material being ejected from the host O-class star. At 108,728 Kelvin it is similar to a Wolf-Rayet star, but with over 110 solar masses. The system also has 10 smaller stellar bodies from L-class up to K-class, plus gas giants and rocky bodies. The diffuse blues and pinks of the nebula are best seen from the dark side of one of the landable rocky planets.
