IC 349
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ic-349-288-8027231
title:
IC 349
text:
IC 349, also known as Barnard's Merope Nebula, is a nebula which lies 3500 AUs from the star Merope in the Pleiades cluster. It was discovered in November 1890 by the American astronomer Edward Emerson Barnard, who described it as "a new and comparatively bright round cometary nebula close south and following Merope ... about 30" in diameter, of the 13 (magnitude), gradually brighter in the middle, and very cometary in appearance.” The British astronomer Charles Pritchard, however, disputed Barn
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Nebula in the constellation of Taurus
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IC_349
date created:
date modified:
2023-12-28T19:36:06Z
main entity:
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image:
{"content_url":"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ad/Reflection_nebula_IC_349_near_Merope.jpg","width":645,"height":724}
fields total:
13
integrity:
15