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NGC 2174 facts for kids

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Fragment of NGC 2175f
NGC 2174

NGC 2174 (also named the Monkey Head Nebula) is an emission nebula in the constellation of Orion. It is about 6,400 light-years away from Earth.

Images for kids

  • Hubble Celebrates 24th Anniversary with Infrared Image of Nearby Star Factory (13225104285)

    24th anniversary image – 2014 – A set of Infrared images of Monkey Head Nebula incl. NGC 2174 and Sharpless Sh2-252

  • PIA19836-NGC2174-MonkeyHeadNebula-IR-Spitzer-20150820

    Infrared image of NGC 2174 as viewed by the Spitzer Space Telescope

  • Monkey head H alpha 385mm stephan hamel wiki

    Monkey Head Nebula in hydrogen alpha focal length 384mm

  • Monkey Head Nebula bi-color Ha-OIII 384mm stephan hamel wiki

    Monkey Head Nebula in bi-color with a 384mm telescope

  • Monkeyhead nebula Nov 24

    Monkeyhead nebula taken with a 140mm refractor by amateur astronomer Mark Johnston

  • NGC2174 SHO Large06

    NGC 2174 (Monkey Head Nebula) in SHO palette by W4SM, 17" PlaneWave CDK scope, Louisa, VA

See also

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