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RE: NGC 1501

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Hubble View of Bubbly Nebula

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This image from Hubble's Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 showcases NGC 1501, a complex planetary nebula located in the large but faint constellation of Camelopardalis (The Giraffe).
Discovered by William Herschel in 1787, NGC 1501 is a planetary nebula that is just under 5,000 light-years away from us. Astronomers have modelled the three-dimensional structure of the nebula, finding it to be a cloud shaped as an irregular ellipsoid filled with bumpy and bubbly regions.
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NGC 1501 (also CH Camelopardalis, WD 0402+608, PK 144+6.1 and GC 801) is a magnitude +11.5 planetary nebula located about 5,000 light-years away in the constellation Camelopardalis.

The planetary nebula was discovered by German-British astronomer William Herschel using a 47.5 cm (18.7 inch) f/13 speculum reflector at Windsor Road in Slough, Berkshire, on the 3rd November 1787.

Position (J2000): R.A. 04h 06m 59.39s | Dec. +60° 55' 14.4"