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      A Tulip ? Really ?
      Wallpaper author:
      Dale Smalley

      07 May 2022

      A Tulip ? Really ?

      Sharpless 101 (Sh2-101) is a Hydrogen II region emission nebula located in the constellation Cygnus. It is sometimes also called the Tulip Nebula because it appears to resemble the outline of a tulip when imaged photographically.I don't know what the astronomers were smoking when they saw a tulip but I can't it see no matter how much I screw up my eyes. It was catalogued by astronomer Stewart Sharpless in his 1959 catalog of nebulae. It lies at a distance of about 6,000 light-years (5,700,000,0000,000,000 km) from Earth.

      Dataset from which the image was processed

      LBN 168

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      Telescope Live
      SPA-1-CCD

      A Tulip ? Really ?