Nebula
Named for the dark dust lanes that appear to split its glowing gas into three lobes.
| Type | Nebula |
|---|---|
| Nebula type | Emission |
| Distance from Earth | 4,100 ly |
| Diameter | 350,000,000,000,000 km |
| Mass | 5.17 × 10^32 kg |
| Temperature | 9,727°C |
| Apparent magnitude | 6.3 |
| Redshift | 0 |
| Hemisphere | Southern |
| Discovered | 1764 |
At 350,000,000,000,000 km across, Trifid Nebula is 27,468,215,351 times the diameter of Earth.
Its mass is 86,570,663 times the mass of Earth.
The light reaching us from Trifid Nebula tonight left it around 4,100 years ago.
An average temperature of 10,000 K works out at 9,727 degrees Celsius, warmer than the 15 degrees Earth averages.
It has been on record since 1764.
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