N76A
| N76A | |
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| Image taken with the Very Large Telescope ; top left, greenish, the supernova remnant 1E 0102.2−7219 | |
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Observation dates equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Constellation | Tucana |
| Right ascension | 01 h 03.8 m |
| declination | −72 ° 04 ′ 0 ″ |
| Physical data | |
| Affiliation | Small Magellanic Cloud |
| distance | approx. 200 k ly |
| Other names | |
| THE S123 | |
N76A (also DEM S123 ) is an H-II region in the small Magellanic Cloud in the constellation Tucana .
N76A was listed by Karl Gordon Henize . In the center there is a binary star system, one of the components being a very hot Wolf-Rayet star .
Image of the Hubble space telescope of the SNR E0102.2-7219 (bluish) and the HII area in NGC 371
swell
- ^ Karl Gordon Henize: Catalogs of Hα-EMISSION Stars and Nebulae in the Magellanic Clouds. bibcode : 1956ApJS .... 2..315H
- ↑ Really Hot Stars , ESO , April 9, 2003