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Omega nebula

(Swan nebula; Horseshoe nebula; M17; NGC 6618) An emission nebula with a conspicuous bar that lies at a distance of 2200 parsecs in the constellation of Sagittarius, very close to its northern boundary with Scutum. The nebula's apparent magnitude is 7. It is an H II region and a double radio source. The M17SW molecular cloud is a site of massive star formation; the interface between the nebula and M17SW is an example of an edge-on photodissociation region.
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Omega Nebula

[ō′meg·ə ′neb·yə·lə]
(astronomy)
A bright H II region in the constellation Sagittarius that is both a bright far-infrared source and a double radio source. Also known as Swan Nebula.
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One of these is M16, the Eagle Nebula or Star Queen Nebula, of Hubble Space Telescope photographic fame with its "Pillars of Creation." The other is Ml 7, most often called the Omega Nebula, but also variously known as the Swan Nebula, Horseshoe Nebula, and Checkmark Nebula (see Howard Banich's Going Deep column, S&T: Sept.
Washington, Jan 5 (ANI): A new image of the Omega Nebula, captured by ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT), is one of the sharpest of this object ever taken from the ground.
This is M17 (NGC 6618), commonly known as the Swan or Omega nebula, which culminates at a respectable 22[degrees] above the horizon from central England.
The Omega Nebula M17 (right), to give it the proper astronomical name, is sometimes called the Swan Nebula because the brightest portion allegedly looks like a swan sitting with its neck craned over.
The photo, made by the Hubble Space Telescope, shows fantastic, undulating shapes that lie within the stellar nursery known as M17, the Omega Nebula, some 5,500 light years away from us in the constellation Sagittarius.
The Eagle nebula,RA 18 19 00 Dec --13 46 57 and the Omega nebula RA 18 21 01 Dec --16 10 57.
It's actually an image of the center of the Omega Nebula, a hotbed of newly born stars wrapped in colorful blankets of glowing gas and cradled in an enormous cold, dark hydrogen cloud.
A larger telescope shows the curved "head" of the swan more distinctly, accounting for several of its other popular names: "Horse Shoe" and "Omega Nebula".
Munich, July 8 (ANI): A new image captured by the European Southern Observatory (ESO) has reveled the Omega Nebula, a stellar nursery where infant stars illuminate and sculpt a vast pastel fantasy of dust and gas, in all its glory.
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