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The Cone and Fox Fur Nebula, NGC 2264
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RE: The Cone and Fox Fur Nebula, NGC 2264
May 18, 2015 at 1:35 pm
(May 18, 2015 at 12:07 pm)FatAndFaithless Wrote: I really wish there was an accessible, physical way to understand the sizes of these things.

You got me curious. Not sure this will help.

The Cone Nebula is just the brighter part of the entire nebula and is estimated at 40 l.y. across (the entire emission nebula is about 190 l.y. across). This means that just the Cone Nebula is 9.5 times longer across than it is from the Earth to Proxima Centauri. Put another way it is 2.5 million times longer than the distance between the sun and the Earth. If my calculation is correct the Cone Nebula is 232,000,000,000,000 miles across.
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The Cone and Fox Fur Nebula, NGC 2264

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The Cone and Fox Fur Nebula, NGC 2264 - by orogenicman - May 18, 2015 at 11:16 am
RE: The Cone and Fox Fur Nebula, NGC 2264 - by Cato - May 18, 2015 at 1:35 pm
RE: The Cone and Fox Fur Nebula, NGC 2264 - by Regina - May 18, 2015 at 11:46 pm
RE: The Cone and Fox Fur Nebula, NGC 2264 - by Cato - May 19, 2015 at 8:02 am

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