NGC 3242
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ngc-3242-305-4004668
title:
NGC 3242
text:
NGC 3242 is a planetary nebula located in the constellation Hydra. William Herschel discovered the nebula on February 7, 1785, and catalogued it as H IV.27. John Herschel observed it from the Cape of Good Hope, South Africa, in the 1830s, and numbered it as h 3248, and included it in the 1864 General Catalogue as GC 2102; this became NGC 3242 in J. L. E. Dreyer's New General Catalogue of 1888. This planetary nebula is most frequently called the Ghost of Jupiter, or Jupiter's Ghost due to its sim
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Planetary nebula in the constellation Hydra
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NGC_3242
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date modified:
2023-06-13T17:08:53Z
main entity:
{"identifier":"Q223282","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q223282"}
image:
{"content_url":"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/14/NGC_3242_%22Ghost_of_Jupiter%22.png","width":1047,"height":1015}
fields total:
13
integrity:
15