Trifid Nebula

Nebula

Named for the dark dust lanes that appear to split its glowing gas into three lobes.

Facts

TypeNebula
Nebula typeEmission
Distance from Earth4,100 ly
Diameter350,000,000,000,000 km
Mass5.17 × 10^32 kg
Temperature9,727°C
Apparent magnitude6.3
Redshift0
HemisphereSouthern
Discovered1764

Trifid Nebula in context

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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