Helix Nebula
At a glance
- Type
- Nebula
- Distance
- Nearby (under 1,000 light years)
- Naked eye
- Only through a telescope
- Known since
- 1600–1900 (early telescopes)
- Colour
- Multicoloured
- Feature
- Nothing special
- Difficulty in WildGuessr
- Hard
Did you know?
- In pictures it looks like a giant eye, so people nicknamed it the Eye of God.
- It is the leftover gas of a dying star like our Sun, in the constellation Aquarius.
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Classification, names and conservation status come from Wikidata (CC0), the photo from Wikimedia Commons. Wikidata Q97017154 · All space objects · All entries